Patent ID: 8868614

Claim:
A method for using metadata to control media rendering, comprising: receiving at a media playback device from a network server device in communication with the media playback device published first metadata having data indicative of an offset time and a time duration of a first segment of a media and second metadata having data indicative of an offset time and time duration of a second segment of the media; using by the media playback device the received, published first metadata to cause a rendering of the first segment to be automatically inhibited during a rendering of a digital copy of the media by the media playback device; receiving by the media playback device data indicative of a user-initiated correction to at least the offset time associated with the first metadata; and using by the media playback device the received, published second metadata and the data indicative of the user-initiated correction to at least the offset time associated with the first metadata to cause a rendering of the second segment to be automatically inhibited during a rendering of a digital copy of the media by the media playback device.