Patent ID: 8732761

Claim:
A system, comprising: a client; and a home media server in communication with the client and configured to: receive a request for media content from the client; determine content restrictions associated with the client; discover at least one other media device; receive listings of media content from the at least one other media device; aggregate to create a unified content listing of media content stored on the home media server and the listings of the media content received from the at least one other media device; filter the unified content listing according to the content restrictions; send the filtered unified content listing to the client; receive a listing selection of the filtered unified content listing from the client; and initiate, in response to a selected content based on the listing selection being stored on the least one other media device, a transfer of the selected content to the client from the at least one other media device by instructing the at least one other media device to transmit the selected content.