System and method for peer-to-peer lending of digital content within an expanded social network

摘要

The invention is directed toward a system and method for peer-to-peer lending of digital content within an expanded social network. The invention provides for systems and methods for the searching of users with a particular digital content, displaying the digital content owned by users within a borrowers' expanded social network, requesting of the loaning of the digital content from lender(s), and the tracking of loaned digital content, either connected to a network or via in-person transfer of digital content. In addition, embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods to allow for the borrower to add and share annotations (such as notes or multimedia annotations) to the digital content. The system comprises a client computer connected to a server computer with a database through the internet, an interface software module, a social networking software module, a content management software module, and a user annotation software module.