Multimedia Presentation Resumption within an Environment of Multiple Presentation Systems
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1. A multimedia presentation system, which is configured to be communicatively coupled to, at least, one multimedia server via a communications network, the presentation system comprising:
- a multimedia rendering unit configured to present multimedia content and one or more user interfaces (Uls); and
a computing unit configured to communicate with the multimedia server via a communications network and further configured to generate a UI for presentation on the presentation device,wherein the UI generated by the computing unit and rendered by the multimedia rendering unit graphically illustrates two or more of the following;
identity of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
relative point of bookmark during presentation of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
most recently bookmarked multimedia programs;
category of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
locus of which system in the communications network where one or more bookmarked multimedia programs were bookmarked;
identity of user who manually bookmarked one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
chronological time of the bookmark of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
chronological date of the bookmark of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
relative time of the bookmark of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs;
graphical depiction of relative time of that one or more bookmarked multimedia programs were bookmarked.
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Abstract
With at least one implementation described herein, one or more viewers are able to watch the same source multimedia content at multiple locations within an environment (e.g., a household). With at least one implementation described herein, a viewer is able to resume watching such content at a new location (or “locus”) from the point that she bookmarked the content at an original location. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.
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1. A multimedia presentation system, which is configured to be communicatively coupled to, at least, one multimedia server via a communications network, the presentation system comprising:
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a multimedia rendering unit configured to present multimedia content and one or more user interfaces (Uls); and a computing unit configured to communicate with the multimedia server via a communications network and further configured to generate a UI for presentation on the presentation device, wherein the UI generated by the computing unit and rendered by the multimedia rendering unit graphically illustrates two or more of the following; identity of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; relative point of bookmark during presentation of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; most recently bookmarked multimedia programs; category of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; locus of which system in the communications network where one or more bookmarked multimedia programs were bookmarked; identity of user who manually bookmarked one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; chronological time of the bookmark of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; chronological date of the bookmark of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; relative time of the bookmark of one or more bookmarked multimedia programs; graphical depiction of relative time of that one or more bookmarked multimedia programs were bookmarked. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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