Patent ID: 8726157

Claim:
A method of allowing a user of a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) client device to choose a thumbnail image to associate with an item of content stored within a home network, comprising: identifying an item of audio and video (A/V) content stored in association with a DLNA server that does not have an associated thumbnail image, where identifying the item of A/V content stored in association with a DLNA server that does not have an associated thumbnail image comprises: browsing available A/V content items stored within the DLNA server, analyzing A/V content information associated with the available A/V content items; where presence or absence of a thumbnail image associated with the item of A/V content is determined by presence or absence of a uniform resource identifier (URI) in the A/V content information; and determining that an item of A/V content information associated with the item of A/V content does not have a uniform resource identifier identifying a thumbnail image associated with the item of A/V content in order to determine that the A/V content does not have an associated thumbnail image; streaming the item of A/V content at a DLNA client device; detecting scenes in the item of A/V content; selecting a plurality of intra-coded frames (I-Frames) from the streamed A/V content, where at least one I-Frame is selected for each detected scene of the item of A/V content; presenting the plurality of selected I-Frames to a user of the DLNA client device; receiving a selection from the user identifying one of the plurality of selected I-Frames; and storing the identified I-Frame in association with the item of A/V content as an identifier of the item of A/V content.