Patent ID: 8504587

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by at least one server computer, a request for a region of content from a requester, the request having an associated user identifier of the requester; obtaining, by the at least one server computer in response to the request, an audience definition for the content region; determining, by the at least one server computer, that the requester is a member of the audience using the audience definition and the user identifier; in response to the request from the requester determined to be an audience member, the at least one server computer: obtaining a content region definition for the content region, the content region definition comprising boundary information for the content region; obtaining the content region using the content and the content region definition; obtaining at least one annotation for the content region and the content region's audience, each annotation providing annotation for the content region; and transmitting the content region and the at least one annotation, so that the content region and the at least one annotation can be experienced at the audience member's device.