SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS DISPLAY OF GROUPED MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT CONTENTS

摘要

There is provided a method of continuously receiving and playing multiple contents from a content server through a network. In accordance with the present invention, the set-top box requests a transfer of a first content to a content server and receives a first content from the content server. If the content is one of grouped content, then the set-top box also receives in¬ formation of a second content corresponding to a next episode of the first content among the grouped multiple contents from the content server. If the first content is completely received from the content server, then the set-top box requests a transfer of the second content to the content server without any additional input. A method in accordance with the present invention makes it easy to watch the multiple independent contents produced in series.