Patent ID: 8370874

Claim:
A method of providing channel information to users of a content delivery network, the method comprising: enabling a user to subscribe to available channels on a content delivery network; receiving, from the user, subscription to a subset of the available channels on the content delivery network; receiving, from the user, user personalization of at least one channel; identifying a user identity of the user; storing, in a user database, channel subscription information for the user identity based on the subset of channels to which the user subscribed and the user personalization; identifying a media device associated with the user identity; and controlling the media device based on the channel subscription information stored in the user database, wherein receiving, from the user, user personalization of at least one channel comprises: displaying representations of content files from a private collection of the user; after displaying representations of content files included in the private collection of the user, receiving, from the user, input selecting one or more of the content files from the private collection of the user to include in a channel to which the user subscribed; and based on the input selecting the one or more content files, including the one or more content files from the private collection of the user in the channel to which the user subscribed such that the channel includes content files added to the channel by a content curator that is different than the user and the one or more content files from the private collection of the user.