Patent ID: 8849954

Claim:
A multimedia reproducing method, comprising: transmitting identification information on a predetermined multimedia content to a multimedia management apparatus; receiving, identification information identifying the predetermined multimedia contents to be reproduced and a first reproduction position information, from the multimedia management apparatus; determining whether the received identification information corresponds to the transmitted identification information on the predetermined multimedia contents; reproducing the predetermined multimedia contents based on the determining, from a reproduction position indicated by the first reproduction position information; wherein the reproduction position the most recently reproduced position among reproduction positions at which the predetermined multimedia contents are reproduced by at least one of multimedia reproducing apparatuses; transmitting a start signal to the multimedia management apparatus; and receiving an acknowledgment signal for the start signal from the multimedia management apparatus which receives the start signal and transmitting identification information for the predetermined multimedia content; wherein when it is determined that the multimedia contents are a DVD title, identification information may be a unique key of the DVD title generated based on a universal disk format (UDF) property by combining a video title set identifier (VTS_ID), a video title set number (VTSN).