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Centralized digital video recording system with bookmarking and playback from multiple locations

  • US 20050166258A1
  • Filed: 04/11/2002
  • Published: 07/28/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A distributed audio-visual reproduction system comprising:

  • a network adapted to facilitate the transmission and reception of information between components coupled thereto;

    a plurality of program reproduction devices coupled to said network, said reproduction devices being adapted to reproduce programs in a user-perceivable manner; and

    a media server coupled to said network, said media server being adapted to receive and store programs reproducible by said reproduction devices, and said media server being adapted to upon the demand of a user via a reproduction device, transmit in a reproducible format, programs to said reproduction devices;

    wherein said media server is further adapted to allow a user to, from one reproduction device, place a program bookmark in a program representing a point in the program where reproduction has stopped, and from another reproduction device, resume reproduction of the program from the program bookmark.

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