Patent ID: 7650621
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An interactive media-on-demand system, comprising: a plurality of user equipment that are each configured to present media-on-demand programming delivered from a remote media-on-demand server, configured to allow a user to request to freeze delivery of a media-on-demand program, and configured to allow the user to request to have the delivery resumed from the point at which the delivery was frozen; and the remote media-on-demand server being configured to deliver media-on-demand programming to each of the plurality of user equipment; configured to freeze the delivery of the media-on-demand program when the remote media-on-demand server receives a request to freeze delivery from a first one of the plurality of user equipment, configured to record the media-on-demand program when the request to freeze delivery is received from the first user equipment, and configured to resume the delivery to a second one of the plurality of user equipment when a request to resume delivery is received from the second user equipment, wherein resuming the delivery of the media-on-demand programming comprises delivering to the second user equipment from the remote media-on-demand server at least a portion of the recorded media-on-demand program.