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Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2011
Applicants:

Arnon Levy, Calgary, CA;

Peter Warrick, Calgary, CA;

Lindsey Carriere, Calgary, CA;

Darren Ziebart, Calgary, CA;

Joseph Kullos, Calgary, CA;

Diego Fontes, Calgary, CA;

Andrew Macmillan, Calgary, CA;

Inventors:

Arnon Levy, Calgary, CA;

Peter Warrick, Calgary, CA;

Lindsey Carriere, Calgary, CA;

Darren Ziebart, Calgary, CA;

Joseph Kullos, Calgary, CA;

Diego Fontes, Calgary, CA;

Andrew MacMillan, Calgary, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A controller of an entertainment device includes a network connection for coupling the controller to a user-profile server via a network. The controller configured for determining a user identifier corresponding to a user associated with the entertainment device; automatically retrieving a user profile corresponding to the user identifier from the user-profile server, the user profile including an electronic bookmark pertaining to content that was not finished by the user at a different entertainment device; and controlling the entertainment device to allow the user to initiate playing the content at the entertainment device, and to play the content automatically starting from a position in the content corresponding to a position indicated by the electronic bookmark.


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