Patent ID: 8644677

Claim:
A method for user-generated content control in a network media system, the system including one or more data sources and a playback device, the method comprising: retrieving input content at the playback control device from the one or more sources; retrieving a playback control record at the playback device; generating, using a processor in the playback control device, under control of the information in the playback control record output content from the retrieved input content from the one or more sources according to the playback control record so as to vary the playback of the retrieved input content, wherein the processor generates the output content using information contained in the playback control record, wherein the information includes an applicability identifier usable to determine whether the playback control record is applicable to input content, a content variation descriptor that defines an alteration to be applied to the retrieved input content, and latency times of various playback devices that are not pre-assigned to the media player or any of the one or more sources; and outputting, using the processor, the generated output content.