Patent ID: 7734788

Claim:
One or more circuits for use in a system supporting the indirect control of at least one media peripheral, the one or more circuits comprising: at least one processor operably coupled to a display device supporting display of television content and a first storage in a first home, the first storage for storing media and having a first network protocol address with respect to a first user in the first home, the at least one processor operable to, at least: cause display of a user interface having at least one view comprising a representation of media available for consumption on the display device in the first home, the user interface supporting delivery of media from the first home to a second home having a second storage and at least one media peripheral communicatively coupled to the second storage, and having a second network protocol address with respect to a second user in the second home, wherein the second user is known to the first user; and communicate with server software that maintains a user defined association of the first and second network protocol addresses and that receives via a communication network a request that identifies one of the associated first and second network protocol addresses, one of the at least one media peripheral, and at least one media peripheral command selected by a user at the first home, and responds by identifying the other of the associated first and second network protocol addresses to support control from the first home, via the communication network, of the identified one of the at least one media peripheral, at the second home, according to the at least one media peripheral command.