Patent ID: 8321570

Claim:
A system supporting indirect control of at least one media peripheral, the system comprising: at least one processor for operably coupling to a display device supporting display of television content and to a first storage, at a first location, for storing media with respect to a first user of a user defined group of users that are known to one another, the at least one processor operable to, at least: enable delivery of media from the first location to a second location remote from the first location, the second location having a second storage for storing media with respect to a second user of the user defined group of users and at least one media peripheral communicatively coupled to the second storage; and communicate with software that maintains information identifying members of the user defined group of users, and that receives a request that identifies one of the first user and the second user, one of the at least one media peripheral, and at least one media peripheral command selected by the first user at the first location, and that responds by enabling control from the first location, via a communication network, of the identified one of the at least one media peripheral, at the second location, according to the at least one media peripheral command.