Patent ID: 7908635

Claim:
A method for transferring data from a home digital media source to a portable digital media device, comprising: upon connection of a home digital media source and a portable digital media device, automatically transferring a plurality of media streams comprising media content and descriptive information about the media content stored on one or more storage devices at the home digital media source to the portable digital media device, the media streams having been selected prior to the connection by a user at the home digital media source from media streams stored at the home digital media source, the portable digital media device being a battery driven device that operates independent of the home digital media source; causing the plurality of media streams transferred from the home digital media source to be stored on one or more storage devices at the portable digital media device, the portable digital media device being configured to play back at least a particular media stream selected by the user via a user interface on the portable digital media device, from the plurality of media streams stored on the one or more storage devices at the portable digital media device transferred from the home digital media source.