Patent ID: 8712563

Claim:
A content receiver, comprising: a digital data stream receiver operable to receive a non-real-time conveyance of a plurality of encoded digital data streams; a digital data stream decoder configured to extract digital content and metadata associated with said digital content from the plurality of encoded digital data streams; a storage medium in which are stored digital content selection profiles and profiled digital content files; a digital content management module operable to: receive user input and to responsively initiate generation of said digital content selection profiles wherein the generation of said digital content selection profiles is automatically initiated upon receipt of said user input; use said user input to generate user operation patterns; determine, subsequent to extraction by the digital data stream decoder of at least a portion of the digital content and the metadata and based on said metadata and said content selection profiles, to selectively generate and store said profiled digital content files in said storage medium, each of said profiled digital content files being comprised of a portion of said digital content and being associated with at least one of said digital content selection profiles; and a digital content playback module operable to generate audio signals using said profiled digital content files, wherein each of said plurality of profiled digital content files is determined to be generated and stored in said storage medium prior to generating the audio signals using the associated digital content and wherein said user operation patterns are used to generate selection parameters for managing said profiled digital content files.