Patent ID: 8122474

Claim:
A multimedia-content resumption architecture comprising: a centralized multimedia server comprising: one or more multimedia-content receivers configured to receive multimedia programs as part of one or more broadcast media transmissions; one or more storage units configured to store the multimedia programs; a computing unit configured to generate and store one or more bookmarks associated with a particular multimedia content; a plurality of multimedia presentations systems that are communicatively coupled to the centralized multimedia server, each of the plurality of multimedia presentations systems comprising: a multimedia rendering unit configured to present the multimedia programs and one or more user interfaces; and a computing unit configured to communicate with the centralized multimedia server and further configured to generate the one or more user interfaces for presentation via the multimedia rendering unit, the computing unit further configured to receive and present the multimedia programs using the one or more bookmarks from the centralized multimedia server; wherein, in response to a user-submitted request to create a bookmark in a particular multimedia program being presented through a first multimedia presentation system of the plurality of multimedia presentation systems: a user interface on the first multimedia presentation system is configured to prompt a user to indicate a second multimedia presentation system to which the bookmark is to be sent; and a user interface at the second multimedia presentation system, upon receiving the bookmark, is configured to present, for user selection, an indication that the particular multimedia program is available for presentation from a location of the bookmark.