Patent ID: 8346673

Claim:
A method for provisioning audiovisual works to a client, comprising: maintaining categorization information specifying, for each of a plurality of audiovisual works, one or more of a plurality of categories; maintaining a plurality of delivery slots for a client account, each of the plurality of delivery slots identifying a particular one or more of the plurality of categories; associating, by controlling logic executed on a processor, one or more of the categories with each of the plurality of delivery slots in response to input from one or more users associated with the client account; for each of the delivery slots, provisioning an audiovisual work from one of the categories associated with the respective delivery slot for delivery to a location associated with the client account, thereby ensuring that the client account has an inventory comprising provisioned audiovisual works for each of the delivery slots; receiving information related to return of an audiovisual work; identifying at least one characteristic of the returned audiovisual work; identifying one of the delivery slots based on the identified characteristic; provisioning a second audiovisual work from one of the categories associated with the identified delivery slot for delivery to the location; and determining inventory history for the client account, wherein provisioning the second audiovisual work comprises identifying an audiovisual work in one of the categories associated with the identified delivery slot that is absent from the inventory history for delivery to the location.