Patent ID: 9536268
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of operating a computer-based inferred digital social network, comprising the steps of: obtaining knowing consent from a plurality of users of at least one digital social network, to participation in an operational inferred digital social network, automatically obtaining, by computerized data mining logic implemented by a processor, information from the at least one digital social network for the plurality of users of the at least one digital social network, the information including individual views, for the plurality of users, of an overall graph structure of at least a neighborhood of the at least one digital social network, the graph structure having nodes representing individuals in the at least one digital social network and links representing connections between the individuals, aggregating, by computerized aggregation logic implemented by a processor, the information for the plurality of users to form an inferred digital social network corresponding to a graph having nodes representing the plurality of users and the other individuals, and having links between the nodes representing social relationships, the aggregating step comprising automatically aggregating the individual views of the overall graph structure for the plurality of users into an inferred picture of the at least one digital social network that is more comprehensive than the individual views of the overall graph structure, and forming the inferred digital social network from the inferred picture of the at least one digital social network, storing the inferred digital social network, and enabling access thereto, on at least one computerized digital data processing system, and obtaining knowing consent, from at least some of the other individuals in the at least one digital social network with whom ones of the plurality of users are linked, to participation in the operational inferred digital social network, enabling digital social networking between the plurality of users and the other individuals who knowingly consent to participation in the operational inferred digital social network, using a respective plurality of computerized digital data processing systems, within the inferred digital social network, apart from the at least one digital social network from which the inferred digital social network is formed, by enabling shared content within the inferred digital social network between the plurality of users, and by enabling links within the inferred digital social network to be formed apart from the information obtained from the at least one digital social network from which the inferred social network is formed, the links being formed between nodes of the graph of the inferred social network that represent ones of the users for whom content sharing is enabled within the digital social network with other ones of the users, such that the graph has a structure that changes state when the links are formed.