Patent ID: 9489698
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of media content processing devices having respective user interfaces and configured to receive media content from at least one content provider; at least one content server in communication with each of the media content processing devices and configured to provide the media content to each of the media content processing devices; at least one recommendation server in communication with each of the media content processing devices and configured to collect viewing data and social network information from each of the media content processing devices; wherein the recommendation server is configured to provide a viewing recommendation based at least in part on the viewing data for at least two of the plurality of media content processing devices that share social network information as social network friends; wherein the viewing recommendation presents social network information overlaid on media content currently being consumed by the plurality of media content processing devices; wherein at least one of the user interfaces presents an amount of social network friends that are watching a particular content instance; and wherein at least two of the user interfaces are locked to the same media content in response to selecting an avatar of at least one of the social network friends such that at least one of the user interfaces changes media content of another one of the user interfaces.