Patent ID: 8225206

Claim:
A method of operating an entertainment system, said method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: determining an audio/video preference profile of a human user of the system; identifying an item of audio/video content that fits the profile but that is not available to the system; wirelessly receiving the identified item from a source of audio/video content, the source being external to the entertainment system; storing the received item in a memory device within the system; retrieving the stored item from the memory device; playing back the retrieved item to the user; and removing an other item from the memory device before the storing step to thereby create space in the memory device for the received item, the removed other item being selected for removal amongst a plurality of stored other items, the selection of the removed other item being based, at least in part, upon an expected length of time associated with re-acquiring the removed other item at a future time and/or an expected level of monetary expense associated with re-acquiring the removed other item at a future time.