Patent ID: 7933974

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a content request from a mobile device, the content request generated responsive to the mobile device being directly connected to an external device; responsive to receiving the content request, presenting a plurality of channels, each of the channels comprising a collection of content files associated with a content genre; receiving a selection of one of the channels; loading a first instance of the selected channel onto the mobile device, wherein loading the first instance of the selected channel comprises loading a first collection of content files associated with the first instance of the selected channel onto the mobile device; receiving an indication of a change to the first instance of the selected channel; and replacing on the mobile device the first instance of the selected channel with a second instance of the selected channel, the second instance of the selected channel comprising a second collection of content files that differs from the first collection of content files, wherein replacing the first instance of the selected channel with the second instance of the selected channel comprises loading content files from the second collection of content files that are not in the first collection of content files onto the mobile device and removing content files from the first collection of content files that are not in the second collection of content files from the mobile device.