Patent ID: 8281077

Claim:
A method for providing media content to an electronic device, comprising: transferring media content to the electronic device, wherein at least part of incoming media content transferred to the electronic device is stored in memory of the electronic device for use at a later time; using rules to determine how pre-existing media content and the incoming media content are stored in memory of the electronic device when free memory in the electronic device is insufficient to store both the incoming media content and the pre-existing media content; and wherein determining how the pre-existing media content and the incoming media content are stored in memory includes replacing at least part of the pre-existing media content with the incoming media content, or transferring only a part of the incoming media content to the electronic device; and creating at least one leader file for i) pre-existing media content that has been at least partially replaced by the incoming media content or ii) incoming media content that has been partially transferred to the electronic device.