Data points, calendar entries, trends, behavioral patterns may be used to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation. The collections are selected from files on the user's device, cloud-based photo library, or other libraries shared among other individuals and grouped into thematic products. Based on analysis of the user's collections and on-line behaviors, the system may estimate types and volumes of potential media-centric products, and the resources needed for producing and distributing such media-centric products for a projected period of time. A user interface may take the form of a “virtual curator”, which is a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas, as appropriate, with each user. For example, the virtual curator can be presented as an avatar-animated character in an icon, or icon that floats around the screen. The virtual curator can also interact with the user via text messaging, or audio messaging.
Please help me write a proper abstract based on the patent claims. CLAIM: 1. A method for producing and distributing one or more customized media centric products, the customized media-centric products being provided based on one or more users' collections of media assets stored in one or more storage devices accessible by one or more processors, the method comprising: monitoring the collections of media assets, and the users' media recordings and media usage behaviors; identifying the users' relationship and life-events based on the users' media recordings, the user's media usage behaviors, and information collected in the users' accounts, contacts, calendars, texts, posts, time and date information, location information; and based on the monitored media recordings and media usage behaviors, selecting for each user a user persona from a set of predetermined or dynamically created user personas, each user persona assisting in estimating a potential volume of the customized media centric products intended to recognize the identified relationships and life-events of that user and one or more recipients of the customized media-centric products associated with that user for a projected period of time. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the recipients of the customized media-centric products are predicted taking into account the content derived from the collections of media assets appropriate for the media-centric products. 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising calculating, so as to fulfill the estimated potential volume resulting from customer orders for the projected period of time, one or more of: a required planning and inventory of product materials, packaging materials, physical storage, memory, computational capacity, network capacity and bandwidth, printing capacity, finishing capacity, delivery arrangements, and personnel required. 4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a plurality of types of customized media-centric products in the estimated potential volume of customized media-centric products. 5. The method of claim 4, further comprising adapting the potential volume and types of media-centric products to accommodate locations, timeframes, and events that are identified by monitoring the social network interactions of the users. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying users' relationships and life-events further comprises analyzing content, metadata, comments, shares, and tags associated with the users' collections of assets. 7. The method of claim 1, further comprising analyzing each user's collections of media assets to determine important media assets of that user. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the important media assets include assets that have been used or shared with or by the user or by others in the user's social network. 9. The method of claim 7, further comprising creating and presenting to each user virtual versions of one or more of the custom media-centric products incorporating the important media assets of that user, at least one suggested recipient, and an event to be recognized as appropriate for that user. 10. The method of claim 9, further comprising providing each user with an option to select, modify, or request alternatives to the presented virtual versions of the customized media-centric products. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the alternatives are provided based upon one or more personas associated with or dynamically determined from analyzing activities of individuals associated with the user's social network. 12. The method of claim 9, further comprising presenting the user an option to purchase the customized media-centric products represented by the presented virtual versions of the media-centric products. 13. The method of claim 1, wherein the user persona guides customization of the media-centric products for specific recipients and events to be recognized from the user's identified relationships and events. 14. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected user persona is further based on analyzing the user's media accounts, collections of media assets, media usage behaviors, media product purchase histories, and media product type and format preferences. 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the selected persona is further based on a cultural or ethnic background of the user or one or more of the recipients. 16. The method of claim 1, the collections of media assets include still images and video sequences recorded by or accessible to the users. 17. The method of claim 1, wherein the customized media-centric products include one or more of hardcopy prints, photo albums, photo calendars, photo greeting cards, posters, collages, various physical products with a tangible surface incorporating printed versions of the user's images such as mugs and T-shirts, soft display digital multimedia slide shows, digital movies, highlight videos, video key frames, and virtual reality objects and presentations. 18. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a hardcopy of each of the customized media-centric products. 19. The method of claim 18, further comprising transmitting a softcopy of each of the customized media-centric products to the recipients. 20. The method of claim 18, wherein the customized media-centric products include one or more still images of an extracted person, or one or more sequences extracted from video recordings of the extracted person. 21. The method of claim 1, wherein each user is associated with one or more of the customized media-centric products, such products being customized by one or more of the processors, each such processor residing on a device accessible by that user. 22. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the customized media-centric products are customized with assistance from a remote operator, by a crowd sourced operator, by a recipient or by the user. 23. The method of claim 22 wherein, prior to the customized media-centric products being customized with the assistance by a recipient, the user authorizes a range of options that may be presented to the recipient for customization. 24. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring media recordings and media usage behaviors comprises monitoring frequencies and durations of: recording, viewing, sharing, editing, manipulation, rating, printing, or making of photo-centric products using or incorporating the collections of media assets. 25. The method of claim 1, wherein the life-events identified comprises one or more of: birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, births, illnesses, deaths, new jobs, recurring events, spontaneous events, new relationships, new homes, awards, accolades, aggregations of events, important events, objects of interest, locations of interest, temporal events, academic events, hobbies, recreational activities, sporting events, vacations, parties, national holidays, religious holidays, secular holidays, and combinations thereof. 26. The method of claim 1, wherein some of the customized media-centric products incorporate one or more of: professionally produced or crowd-sourced graphics, clip art, music, audio, narration, text, transitions, special effects, 3-D rendered objects and environments, still images, and videos sequences. 27. The method of claim 1, wherein some of the customized media-centric products are based on a planned or spontaneous event. 28. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the recipients is a user. 29. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the storage devices is locally resident to one of the processors. 30. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the storage devices in remotely accessible to one of the processors via a communication network. 31. The method of claim 1, further comprising interacting with each user using a graphical user interface having a curator persona selected based on analyzing users preferences from the monitoring of the collections of media assets, and the users' media recordings and media usage behaviors; 32. The method of claim 28, wherein the curator persona further interacts with the user via voice and audio interactions. 33. The method of claim 1, further comprising dynamically adapting the types of media-centric products based on one or more of: the user's current activities, location, network bandwidth, device capabilities, and data plan limitations. 34. The method of claim 1, wherein the user persona includes one or more of: the user's location, the user's data plan, the user's smart phone capabilities, the user's cost sensitivities, and other attributes associated with whether or not delivering predetermined products to a particular user is suitable. 35. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring media recordings and media usage behaviors includes monitoring physiological responses.