QUICK STREAMING RECONNECT BY PRESERVING STREAMING CONTEXT ON APP EXIT

Presented here is a method and system of operating set-top boxes with clients in a network that includes configuring a set-top box (STB) to reconnect to a client that exits from a streaming session. The method includes executing a streaming data from the STB to the client and in response to the client exiting the streaming session, maintaining the streaming session in the active state after the client has exited. Further continuing to transcode audio/video data after the client has exited and relinquishing audio/video data that is continuously transcoded and received in the streaming session up until a defined period. Thereafter, upon receiving a request by the client to reconnect, identifying the client for reconnection to the exited client from the streaming session and linking the client seamlessly so the client resumes reception of the streamed data without any interruption in the transcode of the AV data.