Patent ID: 8285810

Claim:
A method comprising: discovering, by a first user device, a plurality of shared media collections made available to a first user of the first user device by a plurality of second users of a plurality of second user devices, wherein media items in the plurality of shared media collections comprise at least one media item from a local media collection of a user having a direct relationship with the first user in a social network and at least one media item from a local media collection of a user having an indirect relationship with the first user in the social network; aggregating, by the first user device, one or more shared media collections from the plurality of shared media collections and the local media collection of the first user to provide an aggregate media collection for the first user at the first user device; enabling the first user to utilize the aggregate media collection at the first user device; scoring media items in the aggregate media collection based on user preferences of the first user to provide a desirability score for each of the media items; and filtering the aggregate media collection based on a threshold score and the desirability scores for the media items in the aggregate media collection to provide a filtered version of the aggregate media collection.