Patent ID: 7883416

Claim:
A multimedia method for use with a screen-based host provided with information processing and I/O facilities, and for interacting with an item, the method comprising: receiving identity information from the item at the host, in response to proximity conditions between the host and the item; presenting to a user an icon that is representative of the item and an associated service field at the host in response to the identity information, the representative icon having a location that is movable within the associated service field based on interactions by the user to indicate the user interactions with the associated service field; generating information of a last user interaction related to the user interactions with the associated service field; and transmitting information based on the user interactions, from the host to the item, including the information of the last user interaction, for storage at the item to enable resuming a discontinued session at a later time, in response to proximity conditions between the host and the item at the later time.