Patent ID: 8792622
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: A63F,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for delivering a story including engaging a user in a scripted, fictional story recounting events about members of a fictional clique of friends, relatives and/or co-workers of the user, comprising: (a) a memory storing a series of at least two recorded segments having at least one of audio and audio with video, each of the recorded segments being made by a person in a group of actors; (b) at least two of the recorded segments being made in a first person perspective by at least two different actors in the group of actors playing different characters in the clique of fictional friends, relatives and/or co-workers acting as if friends, relatives and/or co-workers of the user in accordance with a script for the fictional story; (c) the series of recorded segments combining in accordance with the script to form the complete story recounting the events from the characters' different perspectives, where each of the recorded segments comprises an incomplete portion of the script and the story; (d) communication means for making at least one of telephone calls and video telephonic calls to the user recipient in a predetermined sequence and transmitting the recorded segments in the predetermined sequence in accordance with the script to tell the story; (e) a processor controlling the communication means to make the calls and transmit the recorded segments to a telephone call reception device of the user recipient such that the recorded segments will be transmitted to the user via the telephone call reception device in the predetermined sequence, and (f) means for recording the recorded segments in the memory, wherein the processor controls the communication means to make the calls and transmit the recorded segments in order to tell the story, and wherein the recorded segments provide the story to the user recipient in the first person perspective from at least two points of view, wherein in the script, the user recipient is spoken to and treated as if a friend, relative and/or co-worker of each of the characters in the clique, and wherein the calls occur over the course of days as separate calls to the user recipient recounting events from the characters' own perspective to the user recipient as if the character already knows the user recipient and as if the user recipient is in the clique, and at least some of the calls refer to friends, relatives and/or co-workers in the clique other than the caller, such that the calls simulate what real friends do when communicating with each other, wherein the system includes an application for downloading onto a user's electronic mobile device.