Patent ID: 8214463

Claim:
A method for managing a bookmark item and a content item, the method performed by a controller and comprising: generating a deleting request, the deleting request instructing a server to perform a deleting operation of the bookmark item; transmitting the generated deleting request to the server, wherein the deleting operation comprises: deleting the bookmark item, the bookmark item comprising a bookmark identifier (ID), rendering state information, transporting state information, and a content ID of the content item to associate the bookmark item with the content item, and deleting a bookmark ID included in the content item when the bookmark item is deleted, the bookmark ID included in the content item being the same as the bookmark ID included in the bookmark item, wherein the bookmark item is used for recovering state information associated with playback of the content item, the state information including the rendering state information and the transporting state information, wherein the rendering state information is transmitted from a player to the controller according to a rendering state information request transmitted from the controller to the player, and wherein the transporting state information is transmitted from the server to the controller according to a transporting state information request transmitted from the controller to the server.