Patent ID: 8539331
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a bookmark from a client device at a media content service, the bookmark corresponding to a media asset and including at least an identifier of the media asset and a time offset into the media asset to identify a position where a receiving client device begins playback of the media asset; receiving a bookmark invitation from the client device, the bookmark invitation directed to one or more social network contacts of a user of the client device; communicating the bookmark to receiving client devices of the respective one or more social network contacts identified by the bookmark invitation; and determining a delay offset that is a time duration from when the bookmark is received from the client device to when the media asset that corresponds to the bookmark is initiated for playback at the receiving client device, which begins playback of the media asset from the position of the time offset included as part of the bookmark plus the delay offset to playback the media asset approximately synchronous with playback of the media asset at the client device from which the bookmark is received.