Patent ID: 9747559
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06Q

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a mobile application configured to run on a mobile computing device of a user, said mobile application comprising executable code that provides a user interface comprising: a personalized navigation wheel that is rotatable via a swipe gesture on the mobile computing device to scroll through a selection of movies and to select a movie, the movies arranged within a plurality of sections of the navigation wheel, the selection of movies including movies selected based on movie preferences of the user; and a group event pipeline that provides functionality for the user to initiate a group event to view a selected movie at a selected theater, the group event pipeline configured to display social network contacts of the user and to receive a selection from the user of one or more social network contacts to invite to the croup event, said group event pipeline additionally providing functionality for initiating a transmission of a group event invitation to each selected social network contact; wherein the mobile application enables users thereof to specify, via their respective mobile computing devices, which movies they want to see, and is configured to report, to a server system, user designations of which movies the respective users want to see; wherein the mobile application, as installed on the mobile computing device of the user, is configured to determine, based on information received from the server system, whether at least one movie is available that one or more social network contacts of the user want to see, and if the determination is positive, to provide, on the personalized navigation wheel as personalized for the user, a section in which the movies consist of movies that one or more social network contacts of the user want to see, said section provided only if at least one movie is available that one or more social network contacts of the user want to see.