Patent ID: 9271032
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for facilitating a playing of a streaming media, comprising: receiving at a first steaming media playback device a first request to pause a rendering of the streaming media wherein the streaming media is streamed to the first streaming media playback device from a source of streaming media using a first format; causing the first streaming media playback device to record at least a portion of the streaming media that the first streaming media playback device receives from the source of streaming media subsequent to the first request; receiving at the first streaming media playback device a second request to commence a streaming of the at least the portion of the streaming media that was caused to be recorded by the first streaming media playback device to a second streaming media playback device for rendering by the second media playback device; and in response to the second request, causing the first streaming media playback device to commence the streaming of the at least the portion of the streaming media that was caused to be recorded by the first streaming media playback device to the second streaming media playback device wherein the first streaming media playback device streams the at least the portion of the streaming media that was caused to be recorded by the first streaming media playback device to the second streaming media playback device using an automatically selected second format that is different than the first format.