Patent ID: 8418231

Claim:
A method, comprising: uploading, by a client device comprising a processor, at least a portion of a contact book stored at the client device to a network accessible media repository to identify a list of recipients authorized to access media content stored at the network accessible media repository; recording, by the client device, media content at the client device to store recorded media content; obtaining, by the client device, the list of recipients at the client device; selecting, by the client device, a first authorized recipient from the list of recipients; associating, by the client device, at the client device the first authorized recipient with the recorded media content; and transmitting, by the client device, to the network accessible media repository from the client device the recorded media content in combination with an identity of the first authorized recipient for storing at the network accessible media repository the recorded media content and its association with the identity of the first authorized recipient to enable a first client device of the first authorized recipient to access the recorded media content based on the association of the recorded media content with the identity of the first authorized recipient.