Patent ID: 8191015

Claim:
A personalized content management interface implemented on a computer, comprising: a dynamic graphical user interface (“GUI”), comprising: one or more category buttons capable of being selected, wherein the category button(s) represents a category of content that may be accessed by a user; one or more source buttons, including a source button for real-time multicast stream, capable of being selected, wherein the source button(s) represents a source of content that may be accessed by a user, and wherein the one or more source buttons include a source button for local cache content; and a content list, wherein one category button and one source button are selected and the content list includes any content that is within a category of content represented by the selected category button and that is provided by the source of content represented by the selected source button, wherein the dynamic GUI is displayed at a client on a display device and the client has a bandwidth capacity, wherein the content list is filtered to only include content that has a bandwidth requirement less than or equal to the bandwidth capacity of the client, and wherein after the category of content selected by the user is determined, a user profile that describes the user's viewing habits is developed and applied to the content list to sort the content list according to the user profile.