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Lending digital items to identified recipients

  • US 9,912,744 B1
  • Filed: 06/27/2014
  • Issued: 03/06/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • one or more processors;

    memory; and

    one or more computer-executable instructions stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

    identifying a first computing device that is associated with a lender, wherein the first computing device has access to a copy of a digital item and a digital rights management token that authorizes consumption of the digital item by the lender, the digital rights token specifying a limit on a first number of times the digital item is authorized to be loaned;

    identifying potential borrowers of the digital item;

    ranking the potential borrowers of the digital item based upon a lending metric associated with individual ones of the potential borrowers, the lending metric based at least in part upon (1) a difference between a second number of times the potential borrower has loaned one or more first digital items and a third number of times the potential borrower has borrowed one or more second digital items and (2) a demand for the one or more first digital items;

    selecting a highest ranked potential borrower of the potential borrowers;

    verifying that a fourth number of times the digital item has been loaned is less than the limit on the first number of times the digital item is authorized to be loaned;

    initiating, on behalf of the lender, lending of the digital item to the highest ranked potential borrower for a lending period;

    revoking the digital rights management token from the first computing device during the lending period; and

    providing the digital rights management token to a second computing device associated with the highest ranked potential borrower during the lending period.

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