Patent ID: 8490135

Claim:
A method for displaying media content to a user, comprising: identifying one or more friends of the user using a user information database; aggregating personal media content, the personal media content includes a first set of media content associated with the user and a second set of media content associated with the one or more friends; sorting the personal media content into a plurality of groups of personal media content; creating a plurality of virtual media channels for the plurality of groups of personal media content with each virtual media channel of the plurality of virtual media channels corresponding to one of the plurality of groups of personal media content, a first virtual media channel of the plurality of virtual media channels includes a first media content of the first set of media content associated with the user and a second media content of the second set of media content associated with the one or more friends; adding the plurality of virtual media channels to an electronic program guide in-line with existing broadcast television channels in the electronic program guide; and displaying the electronic program guide.