Wildtangent, Inc.

Matthew T Shea

Sean W Vanderdasson

Alex K St John

Michael J Cooper

Methods and apparatuses for automatically crediting a user account associated with a user by a certain number of digital tokens if the user account satisfies a condition upon querying the user account. Example conditions include the passage of a certain amount of time, the current date is a pre-determined date, and the number of digital tokens in the user account is below a threshold level among others.

Accruing and/or providing digital currency for media consumption

Methods and apparatus for issuing licenses to allow end users to consume digital media content on a user device by responding to licensing requests by determining the number of digital currency tokens required to license the requested consumption and then issuing the license if the end user's account has a sufficient number of digital currency tokens. The end user may further use the digital currency tokens to purchase new features, which are internal and/or external to the digital media content. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Licensing media consumption using digital currency

Methods and apparatus for issuing licenses to allow end users to consume digital media content on a user device by responding to licensing requests by determining the number of digital tokens required to license the requested consumption and then issuing the license if the end user's account has a sufficient number of digital tokens.

A joint consumption of content invitation management function is described herein. In various embodiments, the invitation management function is adapted to conditionally extends the invitations to a recipient device () to join an inviter device () to jointly consume content, via IM ().

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Mercer Island, WA, United States of America

Matthew T Shea