Patent ID: 8799476

Claim:
A method for indirect control of at least one media peripheral comprising: creating a user defined group of users for user-to-user sharing of media content; enabling delivery of media from a first user location to a second user location remote from the first user location, the second user location having a second storage for storing media with respect to a second user of the user defined group of users and at least one media peripheral communicatively coupled to the second storage; and communicating with software that maintains information identifying members of the user defined group of users, and that receives a request that identifies one of the first user and the second user, one of the at least one media peripheral, and at least one media peripheral command selected by the first user at the first user location, and that responds by enabling control from the first user location, via a communication network, of the identified one of the at least one media peripheral, at the second user location, according to the at least one media peripheral command.