Patent ID: 8949450
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: controlling playback of tagged media content using a first media player embedded in a web page provided to a client computer by a web server computer, wherein the web server computer directs a media station to begin sending the tagged media content to the first media player for playback on a client computer coupled to the server computer via a communications network, and wherein the first media player is capable of detecting a tag in the tagged media content; in response to detecting the tag, the web server computer muting the volume of the first media player and transferring playback control to a second media player embedded in the web page provided to the client computer, wherein transferring playback control to the second media player includes the web server computer causing the second media player to connect to a media server computer configured to deliver untagged media content; controlling playback of untagged media content using the second media player in response to transferring the playback control to the second media player; in response to completion of playback of the untagged media content, the web server computer disabling the broadcast of perceptible content by the second media player and transferring the playback control from the second media player to the first media player; and the web server computer operating at least one of the first media player and the second media player in a transparent mode in which the at least one of the first media player and the second media player is not visible to a user of the client computer when controlling media content.