Method for the reception of audio contents in a hybrid receiver and time-shifted playback, receiver and program associated with the method

A receiver device for receiving audio and audiovisual contents transmitted in real-time by a determined audio and/or audiovisual stream coming from a one-way or two-way network, said receiver comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon which when executed by the processor configure the receiver device to:
• receive the determined stream broadcast in real-time on a network and playback in real-time the contents transmitted by said stream;
• detect a first event external to the receiver, the first event being an opening of a two-way communication using a sound or audiovisual rendering element of the receiver device and being conducted between said receiver device and another communications network, triggering interruption of the playback of the content in progress and recording the instant of the interruption of the playback;
• subsequent to detecting the first external event, detect a second external event, being an end of the two-way communication, triggering determining a piece of information indicating a presence of an unplayed part of the interrupted content in a local memory of the receiver device and determining a piece of information comprising a uniform resource locator and indicating whether said unplayed part of the interrupted content is still downloadable from a remote site;
• the presence in said local memory and/or the downloadability from the determined site of said unplayed part triggering automatically retrieving
• from the local memory and/or from the remote site the unplayed part of the content and automatically playing back the part of the content thus retrieved from said instant of interruption;
• and
• both the absence in the memory and the non-downloadability of said unplayed part triggering automatically retrieving the content in real time from said stream and automatically playing back the retrieved content part.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor of a receiver device configure the receiver device to receive and playback audio and/or audiovisual content, wherein the receiver device is capable of receiving in real-time a determined audio and/or audiovisual stream coming from a one-way or two-way network, and wherein the instructions configure the receiver device to:

• receive the determined stream broadcast in real-time on a network and play back in real-time the content transmitted by said stream in the receiver device;
• detect a first event external to the receiver device, the first event being an opening of a two-way communication using a sound or audiovisual rendering element of the receiver device and being conducted between said receiver device and another communications network, triggering interruption of the playing back of the content in progress and recording the instant of the interruption of the playing back;
• subsequent to detecting the first external event, detect a second external event, being an end of the two-way communication, triggering determining a piece of information indicating a presence of an unplayed part of the interrupted content in a local memory of the receiver device and determining a piece of information comprising a uniform resource locator and indicating whether said unplayed part of the interrupted content is still downloadable from a remote site;
• the presence in said local memory and/or the downloadability from the determined site of said unplayed part triggering
• automatically retrieving from the local memory and/or from the remote site the unplayed part of the content and automatically playing back the retrieved content part from said instant of interruption;
• and
• both the absence in the memory and the non-downloadability of said unplayed part triggering automatically retrieving the content in real time from said stream and automatically playing back the retrieved content part.