Patent ID: 7434154

Claim:
A method comprising: transmitting a piece of content across a network from an information handling system configured as a media server to two or more media rendering nodes, said piece of content comprising a presentation time stamp contained in metadata of said piece of content, said presentation time stamp being embedded into said metadata of said piece of content by said media server prior to said transmission; and causing said two or more media rendering nodes to render said same piece of content at substantially the same time based on said presentation time stamp; wherein each of said two or more media rendering nodes comprises an individual time clock that is synchronized to a common clock independent of said presentation time stamp at said time that said piece of content is transferred across said network from said media server to said two or more media rendering nodes; wherein said presentation time stamp specifies a specific time for rendering said piece of content relative to said synchronized common clock at which each of said two or more media rendering nodes is to render said piece of content to cause said two or more media rendering nodes to render said same piece of content at substantially the same time; and wherein said piece of content is a media file.