System and method for bookmarking DVDs
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorRobert Allan Unger
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Abstract
A bookmark button on a remote control device can be depressed to store a bookmark in a DVD player's memory without interrupting play. The bookmark includes a play counter value and a timestamp. When a viewer subsequently wishes to start play from the bookmark, the DVD player is stopped or paused, the bookmark button manipulated, and a menu listing bookmarks pertaining to the disk being played is displayed. The user may navigate through the list and select a bookmark, and the DVD player automatically resumes play at the selected bookmarked point.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a content storage disk player configured for playing multimedia stored on at least one content storage disk;
- and
- at least one remote control device controlling the player, the device being manipulable to cause the player to store in memory at least one bookmark location on the disk.
A method for playing a content storage disk, comprising:
- playing the disk in a disk player;
- during play, manipulating a bookmark element on an input device to generate a bookmark signal;
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- in response to the bookmark signal, storing at least a disk location while the disk is playing.
A system, comprising:
- content storage means for storing multimedia content;
- content playing means for playing the content;
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- control means for causing the content playing means to automatically store a bookmark location of the content storage means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.