Patent ID: 8588824

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, in a mobile phone, a first notification from a digital video recorder indicating that the mobile phone is in range of the digital video recorder, wherein the range is based on a distance in which the mobile phone and the digital video recorder can communicate; receiving, in the mobile phone, media context information including an identification from the digital video recorder of a recorded program currently being played by the digital video recorder, an elapsed time in the recorded program, type of the recorded program and category of the recorded program; receiving, in the mobile phone, a second notification from a computer indicating that the mobile phone is in range of the computer, wherein the mobile phone being in range of the digital video recorder is determined differently than the mobile phone being in range of the computer; in response to receiving the second notification, instructing the computer to play the recorded program starting at the elapsed time, and periodically receiving the media context information from the digital video recorder, wherein the context information is received from the digital video recorder according to a period based on the recorded program.