Patent ID: 7716699

Claim:
A method for remote playback of navigable media content over a network, the method comprising: accessing, at a media server, locally stored navigable media content in response to user input received at a media receiver and transmitted to the media server over the network, the user input indicating selection of the navigable media content, the stored navigable media content encrypted in a first format according to a media storage device compliant content protection scheme and comprising integral menu navigation data for a navigation menu associated with the navigable media content, the navigation menu identifying media segments within the navigable media content and allowing selection of particular media segments from within the navigable media content that are stored out of order with respect to presentation order of the navigable media content; instantiating, at the media server, the navigation menu associated with the stored navigable media content from the integral menu navigation data of the stored navigable media content; navigating to a particular encrypted media segment within the navigable media content at the media server in response to a particular navigation command; selecting the particular encrypted media segment from the navigable media content; decrypting the particular encrypted media segment selected from the navigable media content at the media server in accordance with the media content storage device compliant content protection scheme; re-encrypting the decrypted particular media segment at the media server in a second format suitable for network transmission; and transmitting the re-encrypted particular media segment from the media server to a remote media receiver over the network.