Patent ID: 8909776
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of a server device, comprising: authenticating a user of a client device; communicating a media content to the client device through a network; processing a pause request of the client device to pause the media content; storing, on the server device, a bookmark location indicating a current playback location of the media content in the client device; processing a play request of the user to play the media content from the bookmark location while bypassing duplicating the media content in separate files, wherein the play request of the user to play the media content from the bookmark location is received from one of the client device or a different client device of the user, wherein the media content is provided through a content server that provides an access to a set of the media content while being unaware that the server device accesses the media content through the content server as a proxy to one of the client device or the different client device of the user; and communicating the media content from the bookmark location to one of the client device or the different client device of the user, wherein said communicating the media content includes: the client device or the different client device of the user.