Automatic delivery of media content to a device

A media device comprising:

• a local area network interface to communicate over a local area network;
• a processing system including a processor coupled to the local area network interface;
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• generating a plurality of user profiles, wherein each user profile of the plurality of user profiles is based on viewing data received via the local area network from a corresponding smart phone of a plurality of smart phones;
• recording a plurality of media content items from at least one content source, wherein each media content item of the plurality of media content items is selected based at least in part on a corresponding user profile of the plurality of user profiles, wherein the recording of each media content item is performed when the corresponding smart phone is not available via the local area network;
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• transmitting each media content item of the plurality of media content items to the corresponding smart phone when the corresponding smart phone becomes available via the local area network, wherein each media content item is stored by the corresponding smart phone at a pre-cache memory to enable the corresponding smart phone to perform playback from the pre-cache memory at a later time when the corresponding smart phone is not connected to the local area network.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system of a media device including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• generating a plurality of user profiles, wherein each user profile of the plurality of user profiles is based on viewing data received via a local area network from a corresponding portable device of a plurality of portable devices;
• recording a plurality of media content items from at least one content source, wherein each media content item of the plurality of media content items is selected based at least in part on a corresponding user profile of the plurality of user profiles, wherein the recording of each media content item is performed when the corresponding portable device is not available via the local area network;
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• transmitting each media content item of the plurality of media content items to the corresponding portable device when the corresponding portable device becomes available via the local area network, wherein each media content item is stored by the corresponding portable device at a pre-cache memory to enable the corresponding portable device to perform playback from the pre-cache memory at a later time when the corresponding portable device is not connected to the local area network.