Patent ID: 8255959
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A content playback method in a system in which a server apparatus for storing content and first and second playback apparatuses for playing back the content that has been stored in the server apparatus are connected via a network, the method comprising the steps of: storing, in a storage unit of the first playback apparatus, at least (a) identification information for identifying suspended content for which content playback has been suspending in the first playback apparatus and (b) suspension information indicating a suspension position at which the content playback has been suspended after the first playback apparatus instructs the server apparatus to stop the content playback; presenting the identification information to the second playback apparatus from the first playback apparatus, in response to a request of content playback from the second playback apparatus; instructing, from the first playback apparatus, the server apparatus to resume content playback for the second playback apparatus from a suspension position of content, in response to an instruction of the content playback from the second playback apparatus, wherein the content to be resumed is selected by the second playback apparatus from the suspended content identified by the identification information presented in the presenting step; and resuming the content playback by the server apparatus for the second playback apparatus of the content from the suspension position instructed in the instructing step by directly transmitting to the second playback apparatus without transmission via the first playback apparatus.