Patent ID: 7822866

Claim:
A network comprising: at least one client device; and at least one server storing audio/visual content and communicating with the client device over at least one network link, wherein the client device includes at least one client interface physically engageable with a removable data storage medium bearing a unique media ID associated with content in the server, wherein the removable data storage medium stores information consisting of the media ID in combination with thumbnails or other visual indices of the content in the server, wherein responsive to a user physically engaging the removable data storage medium with the client interface the client device sends the media ID to the server, wherein the server in response correlates correlating the content to the media ID and sends the correlated content over the network link to the client device to play the content by the client device, wherein the user need not do anything further to play the content on the client device beyond inserting the portable medium into the client device, further comprising at least one indicator light on the client device non-alpha-numerically indicating status of access to the content on the server and/or status of access to the removable data storage medium, wherein the server includes at least one server interface, the removable data storage medium being physically engageable with the server interface to write the media ID onto the removable data storage medium.