Patent ID: 8269813
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer usable program code executable to perform operations for displaying digitized graphic media to multiple interconnected parties, the operations of the computer program product comprising: incorporating identifying personal information of one or more users into a database under the exclusive control of a central managing forum, wherein said identifying personal information is voluntarily provided by the one or more users to the central managing forum via a computer network for a purpose of creating exclusive user accounts; storing reading preferences of the one or more users in the database; prompting a user to create a reading session; prompting the user to choose a digitized picture book from a pool of digitized picture books stored in a computer readable medium; prompting via a computer network one or more users to join the reading session who have been selected by the user creating the session; interconnecting one more users prompted to join the reading session with the user creating the reading session, such that each of the users in the reading session are in video, audio and autographic contact with each of the other users in the reading session; simultaneously displaying the digitized picture book to each of the one or more users in the reading session; prompting the one or more users in the reading session to interactively navigate the digitized picture book; and tallying the number of times the digitized picture book is displayed in reading sessions created by users.