SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING COMMON MEDIA CONTENT
First Claim
1. A system for identifying multimedia for a first user and a second user, the system comprising:
- a first terminal connected to a network wherein the first terminal has access to a first media library of multimedia files wherein the first user consumes multimedia files of the first media library on the first terminal;
a second terminal connected to the first terminal by the network and located remote relative to the first terminal wherein the second terminal has access to a second media library of multimedia files wherein the second user consumes multimedia files of the second media library on the second terminal; and
a list of common media content which indicates the multimedia files that are located in both the first media library and the second media library and further wherein at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal display the list of common media content wherein a common media session of synchronized consumption of a multimedia file which encodes the multimedia is initiated for the first terminal and the second terminal in response to user input that selects the multimedia file from the list of common media content and further wherein the first terminal and the second terminal provide simultaneous and synchronized playback of the multimedia encoded by the multimedia file during the common media session of synchronized consumption.
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Abstract
A system and a method identify common media content with two or more terminals that are remote with respect to each other for users to access, to consume and/or to experience a multimedia file of the common media content. A list of the common media content of the first terminal and to the second terminal is displayed via the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal and the second terminal may be synchronized for the first user and for the second user to experience the multimedia file via the shared viewing session. A communication associated with the multimedia file may be transmitted between the first terminal and the second terminal via a shared communication channel over the network before, during and/or after a playback of the multimedia file.
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38 Claims
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1. A system for identifying multimedia for a first user and a second user, the system comprising:
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a first terminal connected to a network wherein the first terminal has access to a first media library of multimedia files wherein the first user consumes multimedia files of the first media library on the first terminal; a second terminal connected to the first terminal by the network and located remote relative to the first terminal wherein the second terminal has access to a second media library of multimedia files wherein the second user consumes multimedia files of the second media library on the second terminal; and a list of common media content which indicates the multimedia files that are located in both the first media library and the second media library and further wherein at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal display the list of common media content wherein a common media session of synchronized consumption of a multimedia file which encodes the multimedia is initiated for the first terminal and the second terminal in response to user input that selects the multimedia file from the list of common media content and further wherein the first terminal and the second terminal provide simultaneous and synchronized playback of the multimedia encoded by the multimedia file during the common media session of synchronized consumption. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for identifying multimedia for a first user and a second user wherein a first terminal and a second terminal are connected to a network and further wherein the first terminal has access to a first media library of multimedia files and the second terminal has access to a second media library of multimedia files and further wherein the second terminal is located remotely relative to the first terminal, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating a list of common media content which indicates the multimedia files of the first media library that correspond to the multimedia files of the second media library wherein the list of common media content indicates that a first multimedia file of the first media library corresponds to a second multimedia file of the second media library and further wherein the second multimedia file is a different file than the first multimedia file; displaying an electronic program guide on at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal wherein the electronic program guide provides the list of common media content; and initiating a common media session of simultaneous playback of the first multimedia file for the first terminal and the second multimedia file for the second terminal in response to user input on at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for identifying multimedia for a first user and a second user wherein a network is connected to a media provider which has a first media library of multimedia files, the system comprising:
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a first terminal connected to the network wherein the first terminal has access to a second media library of multimedia files and further wherein the first terminal enables the first user to consume multimedia files of the second media library; a second terminal connected to the first terminal by the network and located remote relative to the first terminal wherein the second terminal has access to a third media library of multimedia files and further wherein the second terminal enables the second user to consume multimedia files of the third media library wherein the first media library, the second media library and the third media library are located at different locations wherein at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal identify a multimedia file of the second media library that is not one of the multimedia files of the third media library and further wherein the multimedia file encodes the multimedia wherein the second terminal accesses the first media library via the network to obtain the multimedia file from the media provider; and a common media session of synchronized consumption of the multimedia file initiated for the first terminal and the second terminal such that the first terminal and the second terminal initiate the synchronized consumption of the multimedia file wherein the first terminal and the second terminal provide simultaneous and synchronized playback of the multimedia encoded by the multimedia file during the common media session of synchronized consumption. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for identifying multimedia for a first user who uses a first terminal to consume multimedia files of a first media library and a second user who uses a second terminal to consume multimedia files of a second media library wherein the second terminal is connected to the first terminal by a network and located remotely relative to the first terminal, the method comprising of the steps of:
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at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal identifying a list of common media content which indicates the multimedia files that are located in both the first media library and the second media library; at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal displaying the list of common media content after the list of common media content is identified; and initiating a common media session of synchronized consumption of a multimedia file which encodes the multimedia wherein the common media session of synchronized consumption is initiated for the first terminal and the second terminal in response to user input on at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal selecting the multimedia file from the list of common media content and further wherein the first terminal and the second terminal provide simultaneous and synchronized playback of the multimedia encoded by the multimedia file during the common media session of synchronized consumption. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method for identifying multimedia using a network connected to a media provider which has a first media library of multimedia files wherein a first user uses a first terminal to consume multimedia files of a second media library and a second user uses a second terminal to consume multimedia files of a third media library wherein the second terminal is connected to the first terminal by the network and further wherein the first media library, the second media library and the third media library are located at different locations, the method comprising the steps of:
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at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal identifying a multimedia file of the second media library that is not one of the multimedia files of the third media library wherein the multimedia file encodes the multimedia; the second terminal accessing the first media library over the network to obtain the multimedia file from the media provider; and initiating a common media session of synchronized consumption of the multimedia file for the first terminal and the second terminal wherein the first terminal and the second terminal provide simultaneous and synchronized playback of the multimedia encoded by the multimedia file during the common media session of synchronized consumption. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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