Patent ID: 7526728

Claim:
A method for managing digital assets, comprising the steps of: monitoring any of access and navigation to said digital assets by a user through at least one of a plurality of devices associated with a network; identifying one or more types of use of any of said accessed and navigated digital assets by said user associated with said monitoring step, wherein said types of use comprise any of visitation, playback, viewing, activation, sharing, transporting, and editing; assigning a score based on each identified type of use by said user associated with said monitoring step; ranking said accessed digital assets based on accumulation of said assigned scores of said digital assets; and providing an access hierarchy comprising any of hierarchical storage and hierarchical listing of said ranked digital assets in a memory based on said ranking step, wherein highly ranked digital assets are more easily accessed by the same said user than lower ranked digital assets, and wherein said memory is accessible to each of the plurality of devices over said network.