Management of local and remote media items

• Main Authors: Kelly, Sean Boland, Newman, Lucas C, Robbin, Jeffrey L, Martin, Timothy B, Chaudhri, Imran, Sanders, Christopher John, Alsina, Thomas M, Gautier, Patrice O, Wadycki, Andrew M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.02.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method at a client device includes displaying media library information corresponding to a set of media items. The media items include one or more local media items, the one or more local media items including media items stored at the client device, and one or more remote media items, the one or more remote media items including media items stored at a remote system and not at the client device. The method also includes displaying, concurrently with displaying the media library information, affordances identifying the remote media items; detecting user interaction with an affordance identifying a respective remote media item; and in response to detecting the user interaction, initiating a process for downloading a copy of the respective remote media item to the client device for storage at the client device.