Patent ID: 7908219

Claim:
A method for managing an inbox of a media device having a graphical user interface including an inbox interface and a content library interface, the media device also having a plurality of media object repositories including a content library and an inbox cache, wherein the content library and the inbox cache are independent of each other, the method comprising: associating a limited use license with a media object, the media object including content and metadata; communicating the media object from a computing device to the media device; determining the limited use license to be one of satisfied or not satisfied; in response to the limited use license being satisfied: storing the media object in the inbox cache, displaying the metadata in the inbox interface in order of an expiration condition of the limited use license, and accessing the content through the inbox interface; and in response to the limited use license not being satisfied: eliminating access to the content of the media object, and altering a metadata appearance in the inbox interface; wherein the expiration condition includes at least one of a period of time or a number of plays and the limited use license is not satisfied when the expiration condition is over a threshold amount.