Patent 9396195 was granted and assigned to aol (company) on July, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention discloses systems and methods for sharing video content within a user's social network. In particular, the members of the user's social network can act as both recipients and senders of shared video content. An exemplary method for sharing videos includes identifying a video to be shared, identifying one or more recipients, and causing a playlist for each recipient to be populated with the shared video.