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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Drew R. Domm, Oakland, CA (US);

Erik Lindholm, San Francisco, CA (US);

Fredric Vinna, San Francisco, CA (US);

Uli M. Schöberl, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew J. Cielak, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/466 (2011.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); G06F 16/683 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4668 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/685 (2019.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about, and facilitates consumption of, content in a content delivery application, including utilizing content consumption activities of the user's friends to do so. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of a friends content mix corresponding to content selected based on content consumption activity of one or more friends of a user of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of a plurality of content items included in the friends content mix that includes a representation of a first content item of the plurality of content items displayed in association with a representation of a first friend, of the one or more friends of the user, that is associated with the first content item.


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