Patent ID: 8538907

Claim:
A storage unit of digitally encoded information stored on a non-transitory storage medium, said storage unit being referred to as an intelligent content item, said storage unit comprising: an intelligent wrapper, stored on at least one non-transitory storage medium, enabling the intelligent content item to function as a self-managing unit of storage; content data, stored on at least one non-transitory storage medium, contained within the intelligent wrapper; and intelligent functions, specified by program instructions executable by one or more processors, contained within the intelligent wrapper, wherein said intelligent functions represent abilities of the intelligent wrapper to autonomously and dynamically manage a state of the intelligent content item and manage specifics for content consumers to access and utilize the content data, wherein the intelligent functions trigger at least one action to be performed by one or more machines responsive to changes in user behavior, which is recorded within the intelligent wrapper, wherein said at least one action is selected from a group of actions consisting of: one or more machines changing a format of the content data contained in the intelligent content item; one or more machines compressing a rarely used portion of the content data contained in the intelligent content item while keeping a different portion of the content data uncompressed; and one or more machines detecting at least a portion of the data content that is being misused by a content consumer and to automatically delete the detected portion of the data content from the corresponding intelligent content item.