Collaboration and real-time discussion in electronically published media

Abstract

A mobile device application allows a user to participate in a collaborative discussion. The collaborative discussion may allow multiple users to collaborate in a formatted discussion on a variety of topics. The collaborative discussion may be associated with media content provided through a media reader application. A user may act as an administrator to create a collaborate discussion and configure parameters or the collaborative discussion via the user's mobile device. A user may access the media content through the media reader application and provide input to the collaborative discussion in real time. The media may include an electronic book, magazine, article or other media content. The input received from the user may include a comment, vote, brainstorm content, various collaborative engagement structures or other data. The collaborative discussion may be accessed through a mobile device application or a network browser.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A device for engaging in a collaborative engagement, the device including:
 a processor;   a memory;   a media reader application stored in memory and executable by the processor to receive media content from a remote resource over a network and provide the media content to a user, the media content associated with media stored at a remote server; and   a collaboration application stored in the memory and executed by the processor to access collaborative discussion data from a remote server for a collaborative discussion between the user and other users about one or more topics related to the media content, collaborative discussion data for each of the one or more topics accessed from a separate dedicated network address.