Patent ID: 7653761

Claim:
A system that facilitates automatically delivering personalized content to a media device, comprising: a computing system that implements a media service to provide media content for download to a media device of a user who subscribes to said media service, wherein media content that is downloaded to the media device comprises (i) user-downloaded media content that is explicitly downloaded by the user from the media service and (ii) personalized media content that the media service automatically compiles and pushes to the media device without an explicit request by the user, wherein: the media service automatically compiles new personalized media content for the user based on at least one of (i) a recommendation of content from another user who subscribes to said media service and (ii) usage data that the media service periodically receives from the media device, said usage data comprising information related to user actions with regard to downloaded media content on the media device; the media service automatically pushes the new personalized media content to the media device of the user, wherein the new personalized media content is automatically stored in currently available memory associated with the media device, and wherein if no memory is currently available, then automatically stored in memory that is made available by selectively removing stored media content with lowest priority among the currently stored media content of the media device; and stored media content is prioritized based at least on whether the stored media content is user-downloaded media content or personalized media content that was automatically pushed to the media device, such that stored personalized media content is selectively removed in favor of preserving user-downloaded media content stored on the media device.