Architecture for shared content consumption interactions

摘要

Features are disclosed for facilitating content consumption and communication among a group of users. A content consumption group may be formed including any number of users, and content may be selected. Group members may consume roughly the same portion of the content at roughly the same time and share the consumption experience regardless of geographic location, user device, content format, on-demand consumption preferences, and the like. Policies may be defined or selected regarding the rate of content consumption, the communications and other inputs that may be submitted by group members, and the like. A shared content consumption management system may receive data from various user devices regarding each group member's current content consumption position, enforce group policies, and distribute group inputs. Group members may also communication in real time through various chats and other interactive features.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for managing group content consumption, the computer-implemented method comprising:
under control of one or more computing devices configured with specific computer-executable instructions, receiving, from a first user device of a plurality of user devices, first position data regarding a first current position within an audio version of a content item; receiving, from a second user device of the plurality of user devices, second position data regarding a second current position within a textual version of the content item; converting a one of the first current position or the second current position into a converted content position, wherein a one of the first current position or the second current position that is not converted into the converted content position remains an unconverted content position; receiving, from a subset of the plurality of user devices, commentary data regarding the content item, the subset including at least one of the first user device or the second user device; identifying a location within the content item that corresponds to an important plot development; determining that the location corresponding to the important plot development falls between the converted content position and the unconverted content position; selecting a portion of the commentary data that excludes reference to the important plot development; generating markup code for a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising: an object representing at least a portion of the content item, the object comprising a first indicator of the converted content position and a second indicator of the unconverted content position; and the portion of the commentary data; and transmitting the markup code for the graphical user interface to at least one of the first user device or the second user device.