Patent ID: 8712867

Claim:
An electronic system for distributing playable media items from a content provider operating a first website to a subscriber including: (a) a subscriber queue routine operating on a first server computing system that is controllable by the content provider and is configured to set up a subscriber selection queue for the subscriber, said subscriber selection queue consisting of an ordered list of one or more playable media items to be viewed by the subscriber; wherein said subscriber selection queue is set up at least in part in response to item selection directions provided by the subscriber; (b) a subscriber queue replenishment control routine operating on the server computing system which implements queue replenishment rules provided by the subscriber for the subscriber selection queue; and (c) a queue monitoring routine operating under control of the subscriber on a separate server computing system at a second website and configured to monitor said subscriber selection queue in accordance with said queue replenishment control rules to determine information on a status of said subscriber selection queue, including: 1) whether said subscriber selection queue contains any playable media items; 2) an identity of titles of any such playable media items that are present in said subscriber selection queue; wherein said subscriber selection queue can be modified by said subscriber queue replenishment control routine to generate a new ordered list of one or more playable media items based on a confirmation from the subscriber; and wherein the subscriber queue monitoring routine can access titles from a plurality of separate first websites offering playable media items.