US 10,476,976 B1Granted

Consuming content items collaboratively

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsOtis Yeager Chandler, Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy, Seth Gershom Goldstein, Peter Thomas Killalea, Brian Mitchell Percival, Kartik Swaminadan Santhanakrishnan, Brian David Rosenblat

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Abstract

Techniques for facilitating collaborative consumption of content items, such as electronic books, movies, videos, songs, and the like. Multiple users may consume a content item over a substantially common period of time, such as over a day, week, month, etc. Each user may utilize one or more electronic devices (e.g., electronic book reader devices, tablet devices, laptop computers, etc.) to consume the item, and each user may share his or her thoughts and may otherwise provide progress updates to the other users over the period of time.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a first electronic device associated with a first account of a first user, and from one or more computing devices, a first indication to consume a content item with a second user;
sending, by the first electronic device, an invitation to consume the content item over approximately a same period of time;
sending, by the first electronic device, one or more first updates to a second electronic device associated with a second account of the second user, the one or more first updates providing first information regarding first consumption of the content item on at least one of the first electronic device or a third electronic device associated with the first account;
receiving, at the first electronic device, one or more second updates from the second electronic device, the one or more second updates providing second information regarding second consumption of the content item on at least one of the second electronic device or a fourth electronic device associated with the second account;
and
determining, at the first electronic device and based at least in part on the one or more second updates, an amount of the content item accessible by at least one of the first electronic device or the third electronic device.

3 more elements

A first electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;
and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from at least one of a system or a second electronic device, an invitation for a first user of a first account to consume a content item with a second user of a second account over approximately a same period of time as the second user, wherein the second account is associated with the second electronic device;
sending, to at least one of the system or the second electronic device, an indication of acceptance of the invitation;
sending, to the second electronic device, first information indicating first consumption of the content item on the first electronic device;
receiving, from the second electronic device, second information indicating second consumption of the content item on the second electronic device;
and determining, based at least in part on the second information, an amount of the content item accessible by the first electronic device.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
sending, to a first electronic device associated with a first account, a first invitation for a first user associated with the first account to consume a content item with a second user associated with a second account over approximately a same period of time;
sending, to the second electronic device, a second invitation for the second user to consume the content item with the first user over approximately the same period of time;
receiving, from the first electronic device, an indication of acceptance to the first invitation;
receiving, from the first electronic device, first information indicating first consumption of the content item on the first electronic device;
based at least in part on receiving the first information, sending, to a second electronic device associated with the second account, the first information indicating the first consumption of the content item on the first electronic device;
receiving, from the second electronic device, second information indicating second consumption of the content item on the second electronic device;
based at least in part on receiving the second information, sending, to the first electronic device, the second information indicating the second consumption of the content item on the second electronic device;
determining, based at least in part on the first information, a first amount of the content item accessible by the second electronic device;
and
determining, based at least in part on the second information, a second amount of the content item accessible by the first electronic device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/499,560Filed 27 Apr 2017 · continuation
Priority: 6 Jun 2014
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06Q 30/0631
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: recommending goods or services
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
H04L 67/52
Network services: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal