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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Andrew Shenkler, Marina Del Ray, CA (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Various aspects of a system and method to control playback of digital content are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a first electronic device, which is configured to pair the first electronic device with a unique user account in a server. The pairing is performed by use of an application embedded in a physical storage medium. User viewing information, associated with a content item currently played through the physical storage medium, is communicated by the first electronic device to the server. The playback of the content item is resumed on login to the unique user account on a second electronic device from a last view state of the content item played through the physical storage medium by the first electronic device.