Patent ID: 8549091

Claim:
A system comprising: a) a network interface; b) playback circuitry associated with the network interface comprising: i) a first buffer circuit associated with the network interface and adapted to: receive an address range of select media content defining a range of addresses in a storage unit of a centralized media content server in which the select media content is stored; and perform at least one direct memory access transfer via the network interface to transfer data stored in the address range from the storage unit of the centralized media content server to the first buffer circuit; and ii) a playback buffer circuit associated with the first buffer circuit comprising: a media content processing function adapted to: receive the data from the first buffer circuit based on a playback clock; and process the data to provide the select media content in a format ready for playback; and a playback buffer adapted to store the select media content from the media content processing function for playback.