Patent ID: 7788695

Claim:
A method of distributing multimedia content, the method comprising: maintaining data identifying members of a first presence group, wherein a plurality of the members are participating members; receiving a first selection of multimedia content from a first multimedia device associated with a first member of the first presence group, wherein the first selection of multimedia content includes a first selected television channel; providing the first selection of multimedia content to the first multimedia device via a video distribution system to be displayed at a first region of a display device coupled to the first multimedia device; receiving a second selection of multimedia content from a second multimedia device associated with a second member of the first presence group, wherein the second selection of multimedia content includes a second selected television channel; automatically providing the second selection of multimedia content to the first multimedia device via the video distribution system to be displayed at a second region of the display device coupled to the first multimedia device, wherein the second region depicts the second selection of multimedia content associated with the second member of the first presence group; receiving a third selection of multimedia content from a third multimedia device associated with a first member of a second presence group, wherein the third selection of multimedia content includes a third selected television channel; and automatically providing the third selection of multimedia content to the first multimedia device via the video distribution system to be displayed at a third region of the display device coupled to the first multimedia device, wherein the third region depicts the third selection of multimedia content associated with the first member of the second presence group.