Patent ID: 8161172

Claim:
A method for operating a computer to support a presentation of link-related resources at a second device set in conjunction with a presentation of a continuous media resource at a media player associated with a first device set, comprising: accessing, via the computer, state data that include continuous media resource identity data and time position data elements associated with the presentation of the continuous media resource at the first device set; and maintaining at the computer, a current time position, based at least in part on the continuous media resource identity data and time position data elements of the accessed state data, wherein the maintaining is responsive to a passage of time during the presentation of the continuous media resource at the first device set, and wherein the maintaining a current time position further facilitates determining, based on entry of respective starting resource time scopes, when to present link related resources at the second device set in real time synchronicity with the presentation of the continuous media resource at the first device set; adjusting, at the computer, the current time position responsive to a user time shift command that facilitates time-shifting of the presentation of the continuous media resource at the first device set; determining, at the computer, based at least in part on the continuous media resource identity data element of the state data when in real time the adjusted time position enters respective starting resource time scopes associated with a first link related resource and a second link related resource; facilitating, at the computer, presentation, at the second device set of the first link related resource, synchronized in real time, in response, at least in part, to the determining when in real time the starting resource time scope associated with the first link related resource has been entered based at least in part on the time-shifting of the presentation of the continuous media resource at the first device set; and facilitating at the computer, presentation, at the second device set, of the second link related resource, synchronized in real time, in response, at least in part, to the determining when in real time the starting resource time scope associated with the second link related resource has been entered based at least in part on the time-shifting of the presentation of the continuous media resource at the first device set, wherein the computer is independent of the first device set, and wherein the first and second link related resources are enhancement content resources associated with and different from the continuous media resource and comprise further links to Internet protocol services, and wherein the second device set comprises a second computer that (1) is independent of the first device set and (2) facilitates Internet protocol communications to support actuating the further links to the Internet protocol services.