Patent ID: 8601343

Claim:
A method of streaming media content in the form of a series of data packets transmitted via at least one unidirectional transmission channel comprising: dividing the series of data packets into partial blocks, each being formed from a plurality of successive data packets, and applying a first error protection process to encode each partial block of successive data packets to protect the data packets against transmission errors occurring during streaming of the media content; applying a second error protection process to encode all data packets to protect the data packets against transmission errors occurring during streaming of the media content; receiving first transmitted error protection blocks and applying a first decoding process based upon the first protection blocks corresponding to the first error protection process to a partial block of the data packets and if the partial block contains no errors, providing the partial block for play back of content represented by the partial block; in the event that reconstruction of the data packets of the partial block by applying the first decoding process is unable to provide error-free reconstructed data packets, storing for second decoding processing the data packets instead of playing back content represented by the partial block; and receiving subsequently transmitted second error protection blocks and applying, to the stored data packets, a second decoding process corresponding to the second error protection process based upon the second protection blocks to correct errors.