Patent ID: 8904422

Claim:
A method comprising: enabling a user to subscribe to channels that are each available on a content delivery network and that each define content files selected by a content curator; receiving, from the user, subscription to a subset of the channels that are each available on the content delivery network and that each define content entries selected by a content curator; receiving, from the user, user personalization of a channel included in the subset of the channels, the user personalization including addition, to the channel, of one or more content files selected by user such that a version of the channel personalized for the user includes the one or more content files selected by user integrated with content files selected by the content curator associated with the channel; identifying a user identity of the user; storing, in a user database, channel subscription information for the user identity based on the subset of channels to which the user subscribed and the user personalization, the channel subscription information including a personalized definition of the channel for the user identity that defines the one or more content files selected by user and an order with which the one or more content files selected by user are integrated with the content files selected by the content curator associated with the channel; and controlling a media device associated with the user identity based on the channel subscription information stored in the user database, the controlling including making the personalized definition of the channel available to the media device such that the media device is able to output the one or more content files selected by user in the order with which the one or more content files selected by user are integrated with the content files selected by the content curator associated with the channel.