Patent ID: 9711185
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for using metadata to affect a rendering of a media, comprising: receiving at a network server from each of a plurality of playback devices data indicative of a manner in which a user interacted with the media while the media was being rendered by each of the plurality of playback devices; using at the network server the data received from each of the plurality of playback devices to create metadata for use in affecting a future rendering of the media by a further playback device; and receiving at the network server from the further playback device a request for the created metadata; transmitting from the network server to the further playback device in response to the request the created metadata; and using the received, created metadata by the further playback device to control a one of a fast forwarding or skip forwarding operation of the further playback device while the media is being rendered by the further playback device.