Patent ID: 8271676
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content system, comprising: an active play unit being associated with a corpus of pieces of content, the active play unit further comprising an active play content store that stores data about each of a plurality of pieces of content associated with the active play unit, the data further comprising an identifier of a location in a piece of content at which a playing of the piece of content was halted; one or more content devices that can connect to the active play unit over a link, wherein each of the one or more content devices is configured to: each content device having an active play module that allows a particular piece of content to be played on each content device in a format appropriate for the content device wherein the particular piece of content is played, using the location identifier, at a location at which the playing of the particular piece of content was halted on another content device; wherein the active play unit is configured to reformat the particular piece of content for each content device where the particular piece of content is played.