Group Interaction around Common Online Content
First Claim
1. An on-line system that allows a group of people to interact around common content, the system comprising:
- a computer network;
a server system coupled to the computer network; and
a plurality of user devices, each of which is coupled to the computer network and each of which is associated with a respective member of the group,wherein the server system stores identification information for each member of the group,wherein, in response to receiving a lead to content initiated by a member of the group, the server system sends a reference to the content to the respective user devices of the other members of the group, andwherein, in response to receiving the reference to the content, at least some of the user devices automatically access and load the content via the network.
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Abstract
An on-line system that allows a group of people to interact around common content, in which the system includes: a computer network; a server system coupled to the computer network; and multiple user devices, each of which is coupled to the computer network and each of which is associated with a respective member of the group, in which the server system stores identification information for each member of the group, and in which, in response to receiving a lead to content initiated by a member of the group, the server system is configured to send a reference to the content to the respective user devices of the other members of the group. In response to receiving the reference to the content, at least some of the user devices automatically access and load the content via the network.
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32 Claims
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1. An on-line system that allows a group of people to interact around common content, the system comprising:
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a computer network; a server system coupled to the computer network; and a plurality of user devices, each of which is coupled to the computer network and each of which is associated with a respective member of the group, wherein the server system stores identification information for each member of the group, wherein, in response to receiving a lead to content initiated by a member of the group, the server system sends a reference to the content to the respective user devices of the other members of the group, and wherein, in response to receiving the reference to the content, at least some of the user devices automatically access and load the content via the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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16. A machine-implemented method of allowing a group of people to interact around common content, the method comprising:
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receiving, at a server device, a lead to content, wherein the lead is received from a first user device associated with a member of the group; sending from the server device, over a network, a reference to the content to one or more respective second user devices of other members of the group, wherein the reference to the content comprises instructions to cause each second user device, upon receiving the reference to the content, to automatically access and load the content via the network. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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32. An on-line system that allows a group of people to interact around common content, the system comprising:
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a computer network; a server system coupled to the computer network; and a plurality of user devices, each of which is coupled to the computer network and each of which is associated with a respective member of the group, wherein the server system stores identification information for each member of the group, wherein, in response to receiving a lead to content initiated by a member of the group, the server system sends a reference comprising a link to the content to the respective user devices of the other members of the group, and wherein the server system causes at least some of the user devices to access and load the content beginning at the same portion of the content upon selection of the link.
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