Patent ID: 8407753

Claim:
Method comprising: using an Internet server including a processor and a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium, receiving a list of consumer electronic (CE) device model numbers from a manufacturer of CE devices, the model numbers being correlated with respective device capabilities; at the server, classifying available content it hosts by model number, such that the server correlates its content to one or more model numbers by matching characteristics of each piece of content with the capabilities of each model number; receiving from a CE device its model number; responsive to the model number, downloading the CE device a tailored list that is tailored for the capabilities of the model number of the CE device; responsive to a request from the CE device for additional content that is not on the tailored list but that the server is capable of reformatting for the capabilities of the CE device, providing a list of such reformattable content to the CE device; and sending a report to the manufacturer of the CE device indicating which list(s) were downloaded to the CE device, including an original content list from a content server and subsequent reformattable content lists.