Patent ID: 7322513

Claim:
A process for storing multimedia and Web content on a transportable electronic memory device and displaying the multimedia and Web content on a host computer, comprising: detecting that a transportable electronic memory device is in communication with a host computer; identifying multimedia content on said transportable electronic memory device; automatically playing multimedia content on said host computer upon said detection of said transportable electronic memory device; and wherein said automatically playing step further comprises: deciding whether to play a first multimedia content contained in said transportable electronic memory device or play a second multimedia content pointed to by a Web address contained in said transportable electronic memory device when said transportable electronic memory device contains said first multimedia content and said Web address; and wherein said deciding step decides whether to play said first multimedia content or said second multimedia content using any combination of criteria: whether said host computer has an Internet connection, whether playback of said first multimedia content or said second multimedia content would result in higher quality playback, and whether said first multimedia content or said second multimedia content is most up to date.