LEVERAGING A UNIFICATION OF CONTENT HOSTING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

摘要

Content hosting architectures and/or social networking architectures can be improved by, e.g., unifying the two architectures to some extent. Services or features from both can be leveraged to provide an ecosystem that can be superior or preferred by users or consumers. For example, premium content that typically must be purchased via a transaction with the content hosting service can be accessed by certain users that have not purchased the premium content provided those users have a social relationship with one that has purchased the premium content, which can be determined based on data managed by the social networking service.

主权项

1. A method for accessing content, the method comprising:
determining, using a hardware processor, that media content in a content request received from a first user account is designated as premium media content in which access privileges are needed to access the media content and that the first user account is not associated with the access privileges; determining, using the hardware processor, that a relationship exists between the first user account and a plurality of additional user accounts; in response to determining that a relationship exists between the first user account and the plurality of additional user accounts, determining, using the hardware processor, whether a second user account from the plurality of additional user accounts has the access privileges needed to access the premium media content; and causing, using the hardware processor, the premium media content to be presented on a device associated with the first user account in response to the second user account extending the access privileges to the first user account.