Patent ID: 7401097

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for creating a content object, being one of a book, a document, a collection of images, a collection of musical selections, a video and a multimedia object, from a collection of content stored in a digital library having a library server and one or more object servers, wherein the content object includes a user defined hierarchical structure including at least one hierarchical tier and at least one subordinate tier, the method comprising: presenting a plurality of selectable objects from the digital library to a user for inclusion in the content object, each selectable object representing a subset of the collection of content and including a title; receiving from a user a selection of one or more of said selectable objects and a specification of a location for each of one or more of said selected objects within said user defined hierarchical structure including at least one hierarchical tier and at least one subordinate tier; creating the content object according to said user defined hierarchical structure, wherein the created content object includes content represented by one or more of said selected objects and is arranged in accordance with said specified location of each of one or more of said selected objects; receiving a title selectively entered by said user for each specified location of each of one or more of said selected objects and assigning said entered title to that specified location, wherein said entered and assigned title is different than said included title of the corresponding selected object; storing said created content object in said one or more object servers; and storing information specifying the created content object and attribute information concerning the created content object in the library server.