Patent ID: 7752265
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: presenting a plurality of identifiers to a user identifying a corresponding plurality of media collections to be aggregated for an aggregate media collection of the user, the plurality of media collections comprising one or more shared media collections shared by corresponding one or more sharing users; assigning a unique source indicator to each of the plurality of media collections to be aggregated; aggregating the plurality of media collections to provide the aggregate media collection of the user; and presenting a source indicator in association with at least one element of the aggregate media collection of the user, the source indicator corresponding to the unique source indicator for one of the plurality of media collections that is a source for the at least one element of the aggregate media collection; wherein the unique source indicator of each of the plurality of media collections and the source indicator presented in association with the at least one element of the aggregate media collection are visual indicators; and wherein the at least one element comprises a plurality of media items from the aggregate media collection of the user, and presenting the source indicator in association with the at least one element of the aggregate media collection of the user comprises: for each media item of the plurality of media items from the aggregate media collection of the user, presenting a source indicator in association with an identifier of the media item corresponding to the unique source indicator of one of the plurality of media collections that is a source from which the media item is to be obtained.