Patent ID: 7620967

Claim:
A method of broadcasting multimedia information items in a network comprising a transmitter and at least one receiver of information, comprising: determining a class to which each information item belongs in accordance with a predetermined classification, broadcasting ahead of time a descriptor relating to each information item characterizing the class to which the information item belongs and the memory capacity necessary for storing the information item, in each receiver, qualifying based on the descriptors received the potential interest of each information item as a function of a user profile defined in the receiver, in each receiver, sorting the information items in decreasing potential interest order as a function of the user profile defined in the receiver, in each receiver, selecting the items having the highest potential interest so that the capacity necessary for storing all the selected items does not exceed the capacity offered by the memory space dedicated to storage of the selected items, broadcasting the information items associated with the descriptors previously broadcast, and in each receiver, locally storing the information items selected in the above manner, wherein the user profile is updated automatically as a function of how a user consults the information items stored in the receiver.