Patent ID: 8775647

Claim:
A method of playing back multimedia content from a content package, the method comprising: accessing, locally at a primary device, a content package, where the content package comprises multimedia content and instructions to broadcast a first information relevant to the multimedia content; determining whether the content package instructs that the first information should be broadcasted; extracting, from the content package and in response to determining that the content package instructs that the first information should be broadcasted, the first information to be broadcasted; implementing the instructions from the content package to broadcast the first information; broadcasting, from the primary device in accordance with the instructions of the content package, the first information to a remote first secondary device; establishing a communication link with the first secondary device and a remote second secondary device where the second secondary device is different than the first secondary devices; maintaining distinct state information for at least each of the first secondary device and the second secondary device; identifying the first information to potentially be communicated by the primary device, where the first information is relevant to playback of the multimedia content; determining, in response to identifying the first information, a first current state of the first secondary device and a first current state of the second secondary device; and wherein the broadcasting the first information comprises broadcasting, in response to determining the first current state of the first secondary device, the first information to the first secondary device, and not broadcasting the first information to the second secondary device in response to determining the first current state of the second secondary device.