Initiating multiuser sessions

A system for initiating a multiuser session, the system comprising:

• memory that stores a plurality of multiuser activities and a plurality of activity templates, each activity template associated with each of the multiuser activities, each activity template associated with a portion of an interactive content title;
• a network interface that establishes a session with a user device associated with a user over a communication network;
• and
• a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:
• receives a user profile for a user and a peer profile for each of one or more peers, the user profile and each of the peer profiles having information about the user and each peer with respect to each multiuser activity, wherein the user and the one or more peers are members of an initial session initiated by a platform server;
• filters the plurality of multiuser activities based on the user profile;
• receives a user selection during the initial session initiated by the platform server, the user selection from the user specifying one of the filtered multiuser activities, wherein a retrieved activity template associated with the selected activity provides activity requirements required to launch the selected activity;
• establishes a multiuser session with at least one of the peers from the initial session in response to the user selection, the multiuser session established by an interactive content server in accordance with session requirements that include at least the activity requirements provided by the retrieved activity template;
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• launches the selected activity in the multiuser session established by the interactive content server, the selected activity launched with the at least one peer.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for initiating a multiuser session, the method comprising:

• storing a plurality of multiuser activities and a plurality of activity templates, each activity template associated with each of the multiuser activities, each activity template associated with a portion of an interactive content title;
• receiving a user profile for a user and a peer profile for each of one or more peers, the user profile and each of the peer profiles having information about the user and each peer with respect to each multiuser activity, wherein the user and the one or more peers are members of an initial session initiated by a platform server;
• filtering the plurality of multiuser activities based on the user profile during the initial session initiated by the platform server;
• receiving a user selection during the initial session initiated by the platform server, the user selection from the user specifying one of the filtered multiuser activities, wherein a retrieved activity template associated with the selected activity provides activity requirements required to launch the selected activity;
• establishing a multiuser session with at least one of the peers from the initial session in response to the user selection, the multiuser session established by an interactive content server in accordance with session requirements that include at least the activity requirements provided by the retrieved activity template;
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• launching the selected activity in the multiuser session established by the interactive content server, the selected activity launched with the at least one peer.