Patent ID: 8719688

Claim:
A method for processing a bookmark in a first electronic device, the method comprising: receiving information associated with the bookmark, wherein the information associated with the bookmark includes an identifier of the bookmark, an identifier of bookmarked content, a reproduction point state variable, a rendering state variable, and output attribute information, wherein the rendering state variable includes information related to playback of the bookmarked content, and wherein the output attribute information is provided by the first electronic device and includes at least resolution information or bit rate information; comparing the received output attribute information to an encoding information of the bookmark content; transcoding the bookmarked content if the received output attribute information is different from the encoding information; monitoring whether an application program for playing the bookmarked content is executed in the first electronic device; displaying a user interface for inquiring whether to use the bookmark if the application program for playing the bookmarked content is executed in the first electronic device; receiving an input for a resume operation via the displayed user interface; displaying the transcoded bookmarked content according to the input; and automatically deleting the information associated with the bookmark after playing the bookmark content; wherein the bookmark is generated by a second electronic device, and wherein the bookmarked content is received from a third electronic device that stores specific content or from a fourth electronic device that stores the bookmark.