Patent ID: 9692841
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first client device associated with an account of a first user, an invitation to read an electronic book over approximately a same period of time as a second user; sending, by the first client device, a response to the invitation, the response indicating that the first user has accepted the invitation to read the electronic book over approximately the same period of time as the second user; detecting, by the first electronic device, that the first client device has displayed all pages of a chapter of the electronic book; sending, by the first client device, and based at least in part on the detecting, one or more first updates to a second client device associated with an account of the second user, the one or more first updates indicating that the first user has completed the chapter of the electronic book on at least one of the first client device or a third client device associated with the account of the first user; and receiving, at the first client device, one or more second updates from the second client device, the one or more second updates providing information regarding consumption of the electronic book on at least one of the second client device or a fourth client device associated with the account of the second user.