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(22) Filed: May 2, 2000 (Continued) Related US. Application Data Primary Examineripaul H Kang _ _ _ _ _ (74) Attorney, Agent, or F irmiShemWell Mahamedi LLP (60) Provislonal appl1cat1on No. 60/177,786, ?led on Jan. 24, 2000. (57) ABSTRACT (51) Int- Cl- Amethod and system to provide media to a terminal coupled G06F 15/16 (2006-01) to a network, the terminal comprising a media playback US. Cl- ..................... .. eolnponent~ The method and System provides for program (58) Field of Classi?cation Search .............. .. 709/201, matically directing the terminal to access a ?rst netWork site 709/202, 203, 207, 206, 208, 219, 217, 238, in the plurality of netWork sites, and causing the media 709/245, 231; 713/171 playback component on the terminal to automatically load a See application ?le for complete search history. ?rst media Web resource located at the ?rst network site to (56) References Cited playback a ?rst medla. 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