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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Otis Yeager Chandler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Seth Gershom Goldstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Thomas Killalea, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian Mitchell Percival, San Carlos, CA (US);
Kartik Swaminadan Santhanakrishnan, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian David Rosenblat, Lafayette, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
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.