DAVID DALE BOCK
Engineering in New York, NY

2012023, Sep 20, 2012

Jun 6, 2011

13/154350

Aliaksei Dzmitrenka - New York NY, US
Alexandra Taylor - New York NY, US
Angela Pablo - New York NY, US
David Bock - New York NY, US
David Mandelbaum - New York NY, US
Douglas Gottlieb - Douglaston NY, US
Kai Wang - New York NY, US
LaToya Adams - New York NY, US
Michael Yoon - Astoria NY, US
Sudeep Narain - New York NY, US
Ulrich Palha - New York NY, US
Victoria Repice - New York NY, US
Theresa Horner - New York NY, US

BARNES & NOBLE, INC. - New York NY

G06F 15/16

709206

A consumer-to-consumer lending system and method for digital content such as digital ebooks. The lending system invention enables a user who has purchased digital content to lend that content to another user. The lending system enables a lender to extend a lending offer to a lendee and a lendee to respond to the lending offer. A lendee may accept or reject a lending offer. Upon acceptance, the lending system provides the lent content to the lendee who controls the content until returning it, purchasing it or until a predetermined lending period expires. During the lending period the lender does not have access to the lent digital content item. The lending system assists a lender with initiating a lending offer, such as providing a pre-populated email form, and delivers the lend offer notification to the target lendee. Lending offers may be initiated and notifications received over common channels, including email systems, mobile devices, and web-based user accounts. The lending process can be initiated directly from a consumer device.