Lending digital items to identified recipients
First Claim
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, instruct a processor to perform acts comprising:
- identifying a recipient for a copy of a digital item;
permitting lending of the copy of the digital item from a lender to the recipient;
storing annotations of the copy of the digital item generated by the recipient while the recipient is accessing the copy of the digital item, the annotations of the copy of the digital item being associated with the recipient, and the copy of the digital item being associated with the lender;
providing, to the lender, an option to receive the copy of the digital item with the annotations or without the annotations; and
in response to receiving an indication that the lender has responded to the option, permitting return of the copy of the digital item to the lender.
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Abstract
Digital items may be lent from one user to another. A lending system may facilitate matching users that have a digital item to lend with users that wish to borrow a digital item. Each user may have a reputation associated with his or her lending behavior that is represented as a lending metric. The lending metric may show whether a given user is primarily a lender or borrower of digital items. Heavy borrowers that do not engage in commensurate lending may be penalized. Multiple users that lend and borrow digital items from one another may be connected in a social network. The nature of a relationship in the social network may and the lending metrics of users are factors used to make lending decisions.
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27 Claims
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, instruct a processor to perform acts comprising:
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identifying a recipient for a copy of a digital item; permitting lending of the copy of the digital item from a lender to the recipient; storing annotations of the copy of the digital item generated by the recipient while the recipient is accessing the copy of the digital item, the annotations of the copy of the digital item being associated with the recipient, and the copy of the digital item being associated with the lender; providing, to the lender, an option to receive the copy of the digital item with the annotations or without the annotations; and in response to receiving an indication that the lender has responded to the option, permitting return of the copy of the digital item to the lender. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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identifying, by one or more computing devices, a recipient for a copy of a digital item; permitting, by at least one computing device of the one or more computing devices, lending of the copy of the digital item from a lender to the recipient; storing, by at least one computing device of the one or more computing devices, annotations of the copy of the digital item generated by the recipient while the recipient is accessing the copy of the digital item, the annotations of the copy of the digital item being associated with the recipient, and the copy of the digital item being associated with the lender; providing, to the lender and by at least one computing device of the one or more computing devices, an option to receive the copy of the digital item with the annotations or without the annotations; and based at least partly on receiving an indication that the lender has responded to the option, permitting, by at least one computing device of the one or more computing devices, return of the copy of the digital item to the lender. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
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a memory; one or more processors; and one or more modules stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to; identify a recipient for a copy of a digital item; permit lending of the copy of the digital item from a lender to the recipient; store annotations of the copy of the digital item generated by the recipient while the recipient is accessing the copy of the digital item, the annotations of the copy of the digital item being associated with the recipient, and the copy of the digital item being associated with the lender; provide, to the lender, an option to receive digital items with annotations or without the annotations; and based at least partly on receiving an indication that the lender has responded to the option, permit return of the copy of the digital item to the lender. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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