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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2007
Joel Espelien, San Diego, CA (US);
Joel Espelien, San Diego, CA (US);
Packet Video, Corp, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and a method identify common media content with two or more terminals that are remote with respect to each other for users to access, to consume and/or to experience a multimedia file of the common media content. A list of the common media content of the first terminal and to the second terminal is displayed via the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal and the second terminal may be synchronized for the first user and for the second user to experience the multimedia file via the shared viewing session. A communication associated with the multimedia file may be transmitted between the first terminal and the second terminal via a shared communication channel over the network before, during and/or after a playback of the multimedia file.