Patent ID: 7409457

Claim:
A system supporting user defined filtering of media consumption in a media exchange network, the system comprising: a television display supporting consumption of media via a communication network; a storage for storing media, the storage communicatively coupled to the television display, and having an associated first network address; a user interface for display on the television display, the user interface having at least one view comprising a collection of media channels, each media channel in the collection of media channels comprising a sequence of media available to a first user, the display and consumption of each media channel subject to at least one media filter, the at least one media filter comprising characteristics of media defined by a second user; at least one server supporting the consumption of media, and having an associated second network address; and server software that receives via the communication network a request identifying one of the associated first and second network addresses, and that responds by identifying the other of the associated first and second network addresses to coordinate the consumption of media.