Patent ID: 8296811

Claim:
A system for receiving and viewing video content comprising: an electronic mail client configured to receive a plurality of electronic mail messages, each electronic mail message in the plurality of electronic mail messages received containing a plurality of summary information, wherein each summary information in the plurality of summary information includes one of broadcast source, broadcast date, or duration information corresponding to a source video in a plurality of source videos; and a graphical user interface configured to: manage the plurality of electronic mail messages received based on the plurality of summary information; update user profile data; annotate a source video in the plurality of source videos with comments entered by a user; display each summary information in the plurality of summary information; receive input entered by the user; select summary information based on the input entered by the user; associate a color with each of the selected summary information to generate color-coded summary information; display a playbar including a portion of the color-coded summary information, wherein the playbar is a graphical representation of a series of selected video clips; and display an extracted portion of the source video corresponding to the portion of the color-coded summary information and a medium derived from the extracted portion of the source video corresponding to the portion of the color-coded summary information.