Patent ID: 7346844

Claim:
A method for reordering content in a content object being one of a book, a collection of images, an album, a video and a multimedia object and stored as a plurality of hierarchically related individual content entities in a data repository, each content entity having an identifier and stored within said data repository as a file object, comprising: creating said content object by enabling selection of content entities within said data repository for inclusion within said content object via a user interface, wherein at least one selected content entity includes pre-existing material, is pre-stored in said data repository and is selectable for inclusion within a plurality of different content objects, defining the content object with a list of content entity identifiers each associated with a corresponding one of said selected content entities, wherein the content entity identifiers each include identification information identifying the file object containing the content entity associated with that identifier, and wherein a hierarchical arrangement of the content entity identifiers within the list includes at least one hierarchical tier and at least one subordinate tier and corresponds to a user-defined content object hierarchical structure, and redefining the order of the selected content entities and corresponding pre-existing material within the content object hierarchical structure in accordance with movement of a content entity identifier to a new location within the list.