Patent ID: 8458288

Claim:
A method for creating and managing a bookmark item, the method performed by a server and comprising: receiving a creating request for creating a bookmark item from a controller; creating the bookmark item using transporting station information and rendering state information included in the creating request, wherein the transporting state information is transmitted from the server to the controller according to a request of the transporting information, wherein the rendering station information is transmitted from a player to the controller according to a request of the rendering station information, and wherein the created bookmark item comprises an assigned bookmark identifier (ID), and is associated with a content item; updating the associated content item to include the bookmark ID assigned to the created bookmark item, wherein the bookmark item is used for recovering the rendering state information and the transporting state information associated with playback of the content item; deleting the bookmark item that comprises the bookmark ID, when a deleting request of the bookmark item is received from the controller; and updating the content item by deleting the bookmark ID from the content item when the bookmark item is deleted, the content item associated with the deleted bookmark item.