Patent ID: 8001474

Claim:
A method for creating and distributing asynchronous bi-directional channel based multimedia content comprising: creating a selectable list of channels, each channel to contain a plurality of multimedia content related to one of a plurality of topics; recording multimedia content by an administrator relating to one of the plurality of topics; uploading and storing said recorded multimedia content to a channel related to the one of the plurality of topics on a multimedia server; displaying said selectable list of channels to a user; responsive to receiving a user-selection of the channel, displaying said recorded multimedia content on a computing device to the user; recording or uploading additional multimedia content relating to the one of the plurality of topics of the channel, the additional multimedia content generated by an authorized user of the multimedia server that is not the administrator of the channel; assigning the additional multimedia content an inactive status to prevent said additional multimedia content from being viewed by other subscribers of the channel until the administrator of the channel reviews and approves the additional multimedia content; and removing the inactive status once the administrator designates the additional multimedia content as approved to enable other subscribers of the channel to view the additional multimedia content or notifying the authorized user of the multimedia server that generated the additional multimedia content if the administrator does not approve the additional multimedia content the administrator being a person with administrative capability for approving or not approving multimedia content for the channel.