Patent ID: 9530157
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method for gifting media content, using an end-user device, over one or more networks, each of the one or more networks including one or more servers, at least one server comprising a common storage partition for storing media content and a plurality of end-user storage partitions for maintaining end-user associations to some of the media content stored in the common storage partition, the method comprising: transmitting, from the end-user device to one of the one or more servers, a first request, wherein the first request identifies media content to be purchased by the first end-user and to be gifted from the first-end user to a second end-user; receiving, at the end-user device from one of the one or more servers, a response indicating availability of the identified media content; and transmitting, from the end-user device, a second request, wherein the second request is a request to associate the identified media content with an end-user storage partition associated with the second end-user, whereby the second request causes the identified media content to be associated with the end-user storage partition associated with the second end-user.