Patent ID: 8856030

Claim:
A system for associating user attributes with digital media asset attributes and creating a user specific composite digital media display, the system comprising: a) a server; b) a computer-readable storage medium operably connected; c) wherein the computer-readable storage medium contains one or more programming instructions for performing a method of associating user attributes with digital media asset attributes and creating a user specific composite digital media display, the method comprising: identifying a first set of digital media assets stored on the computer-readable storage medium, creating, from the first set of digital media assets, a first composite digital media display, presenting to the user via a display server, the first composite digital media display; retrieving user social network information from at least one source external to the presented first composite digital media display, wherein the user social network information contains one or more user attributes; selecting, based on the user attributes in the social network information, a second set of digital media assets, wherein the second set of digital media assets is associated with one or more user attributes found in the user social network information; monitoring the first composite digital media display for the presence of a trigger, wherein the trigger indicates a personalization opportunity in the first set of digital media assets; performing a rule based substitution of one or more of the digital media assets from the first set of digital media assets with one or more of the digital media assets from the second set of digital media assets to create a user specific set of digital media assets; creating, from the user specific digital media assets, a user specific composite digital media display; and presenting to the user via the display server, the second composite digital media display.