Patent ID: 7395547

Claim:
A media system, comprising: a memory to store media information characterizing media instances to be provided among a plurality of media streams; and a processor configured to execute logic to: provide a user interface, wherein the user interface is configured as a plurality of screen displays, to enable a user to create, define and modify a media presentation of the media instances from the plurality of media streams, in advance of a time corresponding to the media presentation, by ranking media information categories and by selecting and ranking desired media information within at least one of the media information categories; continually and automatically segue media stream changes among the plurality of the media streams containing the media instances; dynamically extract from the segued media streams the media instances to present a user defined media presentation according to a defined order of the media instances based on the ranked media information categories and the selection and ranking of the desired media information within the at least one of the media information categories; and segueing to an upcoming media instance before an end time of a ranked in-progress media instance if the upcoming media instance is of higher rank than the ranked in-progress media instance and if the upcoming media instance has a start time that is before the end time of the ranked in-progress media instance.