Patent ID: 8838729

Claim:
A method of tracking statistics related to a container of data on a computing device, the computing device comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions for performing the method, the method comprising: storing the container created by an author on a network, the container including at least a media object, a container name different from a name of the media object, and an identification of the author; allowing other users to search for the container; allowing the other users to each obtain a local persistent copy of the container stored on the network; storing statistics related to at least a number of copies of the container obtained; ranking the container stored on the network based upon the stored statistics for that container relative to stored statistics for other containers stored on the network; allowing the author to modify the container stored on the network; and synchronizing each local persistent copy of the container with the container stored on the network when each local persistent copy of the container is in communication with the network, wherein synchronizing includes updating the statistics to reflect changes in the statistics from a previous communication with the network.