Patent ID: 8775659

Claim:
A method comprising: collecting, at a first computing device, media content metadata and respective identifiers for individual media files of a plurality of media files that are available for a user experience at the first computing device and that are available to be communicated by the first computing device for experiencing at a second computing device; receiving, at the first computing device from the second computing device, a request to receive the media content metadata and the respective identifiers for one or more individual media files of the plurality of media files; communicating, from the first computing device to the second computing device, the media content metadata and respective identifiers for the individual media files of the plurality of media files available for a user experience at the first computing device to indicate that the individual media files of the plurality of media files are available for a user experience at the second computing device in response to a user-selection of one or more of the individual media files at the second computing device based at least in part on the media content metadata and/or the respective identifiers communicated to the second computing device; receiving, at the first computing device, a request from the second computing device for a selected media file of the plurality of media files, the request to indicate that a user selection was made at the second computing device to experience the selected media file at the second computing device, the received request including a respective identifier for the selected media file; and transmitting, from the first computing device, the selected media file to the second computing device as a stream.