Patent ID: 8584156

Claim:
A method for creating a content channel comprising: accessing a first content channel; cloning the first content channel to produce a second content channel, wherein the second content channel includes a first seed list of one or more seeds of the first content channel; selecting one or more content assets from a pool of content assets based on similarity between the content assets and the one or more seeds; presenting an indication of the selected one or more content assets to a user; and modifying one or more of the seeds of the second content channel, to produce second content channel seeds; establishing privacy rights, for a particular user, related to the first content channel for controlling the modification of the first seed list of one or more seeds; and generating a second seed list of one or more seeds for use in the second content channel, wherein cloning the first content channel is based on a change in the privacy rights associated with the particular user such that the second seed list is selectively the same or different from the first seed list.