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Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Casey Maureen Dougherty, San Francisco, CA (US);

Melissa Breglio Hajj, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0621 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for gifting and personalizing a digital media item, particularly an electronic book. A system is described that includes personalizing a digital media item that is to be gifted from a first person to one or more people. The digital media item can be personalized using a segment of the digital media item that the first person associated with the second person. Depending on the second person's response, the gift can be accepted, rejected, or re-gifted. News of the second person's response can be automatically transmitted to a plurality of social networking services.


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