Patent ID: 11895210
Assignee: SEVEN NETWORKS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A method of operating a system to publish information to communities of users of a service, the method comprising:
receiving new content to publish from a first device, wherein the first device is associated with a user in a community of users;
hosting a first user profile associated with the user of the first device;
hosting a second user profile associated with a user of a second device;
storing relationship data of the first user profile, the relationship data reflecting relationships between the user of the first device and one or more other users in a community of users,
wherein a relationship is established when the user of the first device sends a relationship request to the user of the second device from the first device and the user of the second device confirms the relationship request on the second device;

identifying targeted recipients in the community of users based on the relationship data, the targeted recipients being a subset of the community of users;
authenticating the user of the first device and the user of the second device,
wherein authentication is performed by comparing information provided by the user being authenticated with information stored by the system; and

sending a message to the second device related to the new content,
wherein the message contains an indication of the new content, and
wherein the message is sent through an intermediary server that provides wireless connectivity between the second device and the system; and

disseminating the new content received from the first device to the second device without receiving input from the first device explicitly specifying the targeted recipients,
wherein the user of the second device is one of the targeted recipients,
wherein the new content is disseminated to the second device in response to receiving a request from the second device requesting the new content after the message has been sent to the second device, and
wherein the new content is disseminated over a connection that is independent of the intermediary server.