Patent ID: 8671210

Claim:
A method, comprising: capturing, by a recording element on a network-enabled media recording device, a live media stream; receiving, at the network-enabled media recording device, a network address for transmitting the live media stream; assigning a user identification to the live media stream, the user identification associated with an operator of the network-enabled media recording device; selecting, by the network-enabled media recording device, a communication path for transmitting the live media stream, the communication path representing one of a number of identified communication paths available for transmitting the live media stream and user identification, the communication path selected as determined to have a higher signal quality than signal qualities of others of the identified communications paths; transmitting, by the network-enabled media recording device, the live media stream and user identification over the communication path, and transmitting, from the network-enabled media recording device, an offer to sell a media file comprising the live media stream over the communication path; wherein the communication path is associated with a target receiving device, the method further comprising: receiving an instant message from the target receiving device in response to transmitting the live media stream; and associating the instant message with the live media stream.