Systems and methods for providing storage of data on servers in an on-demand media delivery system

摘要

A system and method may be provided that allows users to store, retrieve, and manipulate on-demand media content and data stored on a remote server network in an on-demand media delivery system. More particularly, the system may allow a user to access his or her on-demand media account from user equipment in different locations as long as the current user equipment can communicate with a remote server that stores user-specific information. The system upon user selection may freeze the delivery of on-demand media at a particular point and allow the user to resume the media at a later time from some other network location in system. Users may upload personal images or files to an on-demand delivery server for later retrieval and display. Users may be permitted to assign access rights to the uploaded files.

主权项

1. A first user equipment configured to:
receive, using control circuitry, a selection of a media asset identifier corresponding to media content, wherein the media content was previously accessed by second user equipment, wherein a request to pause access to the media content was received by the second user equipment when the media content was previously accessed by the second user equipment, and wherein a position, in the media content, that corresponds to a pause point, was stored in a data structure of a profile of a user in a storage device remote from the first user equipment when the request to pause access to the media content was received by the second user equipment; access the data structure of the profile of the user; access, from the data structure, the position that corresponds to the pause point; retrieve the position that corresponds to the pause point from the data structure; determine, based on information in the data structure, that the media content was previously accessed by the second user equipment; based on the receiving:
cause to be simultaneously displayed a first option and a second option;determine whether the first option or the second option is selected by the user; andwhen it is determined that the first option is selected by the user:
generate a request including a position identifier that identifies the retrieved position that corresponds to the pause point,transmit the request, andreceive, from the position that corresponds to the pause point, based on the position identifier included in the request, the media content; andwhen it is determined that the second option is selected by the user:
access the media content starting from a second point in the media content which is prior to the position.