Patent ID: 7934240

Claim:
A method for an interactive media services system to provide media to a user through an interactive media services client device, said client device coupled to a programmable media services server device, said method comprising the steps of: implementing an interactive media guide; implementing said client device to present said interactive media guide to said user; providing said interactive media services system with information of a plurality of dynamic variables regarding an active session of said media; providing said interactive media services system with the ability to configure said client device with a control options suite for said active session of said media; said plurality of dynamic variables comprises at least one of a remaining rental duration, a remaining play time, and a Media On Demand (MOD) period equal to the difference of said remaining rental duration and remaining play time; said control options suite comprises a plurality of trick modes available to said user during said active session of said media to be implemented on said active session of said media; and said control options suite comprises a feature that all said trick modes are to be available to said user until said MOD period expires, wherein after a warning is posted regarding expiration of said MOD period, all said trick modes are made unavailable to said user such that said media of said active session can be presented in its entirety.