METHOD OF SHARING AN ITEM RENTAL ACCOUNT

Patent №

US 7,631,323

Granted

2009-12-08

Filed 2005

Owner

NETFLIX, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11297115

An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.

PlanningG06Q 30/0603G06Q 30/0601G06Q 30/0633H04N 21/2543

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.07
Vision0.03
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

NETFLIX, INC.

assignment · 173400534

Assignors

GREEN, MITCHELL C., EVANS, JOSHUA R., HAWES, KEITH, GOPALANI, NARESH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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