Patent ID: 8028320

Claim:
A method for providing media to a media playback device, the method comprising the acts of: receiving, by a media storage device from a media playback device, a media suspension request; storing, by the media storage device, a second portion of a media stream from a media source, the second portion associated with the suspension request in a storage area associated with the media playback device; receiving, by the media storage device, a resumption request; transmitting, by the media storage device to the media playback device, a request for a first portion of the media stream that includes content from the media stream transmitted by the media source at a time of transmission of the media suspension request from the media playback device; receiving, by the media storage device from the media playback device the first portion of the media stream; and transmitting, by the media storage device, a resumption media stream in response to the resumption request that includes requested first portion of the media stream and the stored second portion of the media stream.