Patent ID: 9268830
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: (a) identifying media assets at a host computer to be synchronized to a media device, the media assets being associated with media collections, each of the media collections including at least two of the media assets; (b) determining which of the identified media assets are not already stored on the media device; (c) determining a priority for each media collection having at least one of the determined media assets that are not already stored on the media device, wherein the priority is based on a respective asset type associated with each media collection having at least one of the determined media assets; and (d) when a storage space required by the determined media assets is greater than an available storage space at the media device, copying a portion of the determined media assets from the host computer to the media device on a media collection basis and in accordance with the priority for each media collection having at least one of the determined media assets that are not already stored on the media device, the portion of the determined media assets corresponding to a first asset type having a first priority that is greater than a second priority associated with media assets previously stored at the media device, wherein the portion of the determined media assets is identified based on an amount of storage space at the media device which is calculated by adding the available storage space at the media device with storage space used by those media assets previously stored at the media device having the second priority which is lower than the first priority associated with the portion of the determined media assets.