Patent ID: 8600360
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically connecting people on a social network, each person having a device with access to a global computer network and an address book with contacts, each contact having at least one unique identifier, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a central server that maintains a list of social network members with unique member identifiers; (b) operatively connecting said device to said central server via said global computer network; (c) registering said person with said social network as a member; (d) friending a contact by (1) said central server accepting from said device said at least one unique identifier associated with said contact from said address book; (2) said central server determining if said unique identifier identifies another member; (3) if said unique identifier identifies another member, verifying that said member is in said contact's address book; (4) if said member is in said contact's address book, providing access to said member for said contact; and (5) if said unique identifier does not identify another member, saving said unique identifier, and upon a new member registering, determining if said unique identifier of said new member is saved, and if so, providing access to said member by said new member; and (e) upon said person registering as a member, automatically friending a predetermined subset of said contacts.