Patent ID: 7526784

Claim:
In a server system linked to a consumer system through a communication link, wherein the consumer system includes a processor, a memory, a decoder, and an output device for playing multimedia content, and wherein the server system enables the consumer system to filter multimedia content that is comprised of video content, audio content, or both, a method of assisting the consumer system to automatically identify portions of the multimedia content that are to be filtered and to thereafter automatically filter the identified portions, the method comprising the server system performing the acts of: obtaining a plurality of navigation objects which can be loaded into a memory of the consumer system, each navigation object defining a portion of the multimedia content that is to be filtered by defining a start position, a stop position, and a specific filtering action to be performed on the portion of the multimedia content defined by the start and stop positions for that portion; receiving a request for one or more navigation objects from the consumer system, the request identifying the multimedia content to be played at the consumer system; sending the one or more navigation objects to the consumer system for processing; whereby the consumer system is adapted to filter the multimedia content by activating the filtering action for each portion of the multimedia content defined by the start and stop positions of each navigation object.