Patent ID: 8806335

Claim:
A method comprising: providing an interactive service to a user, the interactive service being related to a literary work; maintaining, at a server, a recorded position of the user along a storyline within the interactive service, the storyline within the interactive service corresponding to a storyline within the literary work; receiving, at the server, user generated content from the user; storing the user generated content received in a data store, each element of user generated content being stored with an associated position reference corresponding to the user's recorded position when the element of the user generated content was generated; displaying, to the user, user generated content generated by one or more other users at positions along the storyline within the interactive service that do not exceed the user's recorded position and not user generated content generated by one or more other users at positions along the storyline within the interactive service that exceed the user's recorded position, the user generated content displayed to the user including user generated content generated by another user at a position different from the user's recorded position.