Patent ID: 8060571

Claim:
A method of sharing audio/visual content received and stored on an audio/visual content receiver operating within a local network, the method comprising: receiving a message from the audio/visual content receiver at a communication node operating as a server on a wide area network, wherein the message is received via the wide area network and wherein the message indicates that the particular audio/visual content has been received and recorded at the audio/visual content receiver; at the communication node, notifying the selected user via the wide area network that the particular audio/visual content is available for viewing from the audio/visual content receiver operating within the local network; and at the communication node operating on the wide area network, in response to receiving a request from a communication device associated with the selected user for the audio/visual content, facilitating a communication connection over the wide area network between the audio/visual content receiver operating within the local network and the communication device associated with the selected user to thereby allow the audio/visual content to be transmitted by way of a peer-to-peer connection between the audio/visual content receiver and the communication device for presentation to the selected user, wherein the peer-to-peer connection does not include the communication node.