Patent ID: 8683532

Claim:
A method for space-shifting a media broadcast program, the method comprising: a media server receiving from a user for a user profile a preferred brightness level for a specified computing device of the user, the brightness level for the specified computing device differing from a brightness level of a television of the user, the computing device differing in type from the television; subsequently, receiving at the media server a user request to space-shift a media broadcast program which was played in part on the television, and in response, the media server recording a point in the media broadcast program approximately at an end of the part which was played on the television; subsequently, the media server receiving another user request to resume play of the media broadcast program on the computing device, and in response, the media server correlating the computing device to the user, correlating the user and the user profile to the other user request, and resuming play of the media broadcast program on the computing device from approximately the point and automatically setting a brightness level of the resumed media broadcast program on the computing device to the preferred brightness level specified in the user profile.