Patent ID: 9100340
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for a virtual environment accessible by a plurality of web clients, and having a plurality of interfaces and a plurality of displayable objects, each interface comprising a corresponding set of the displayable objects, each displayable object associated with a content provider, the method comprising: receiving a first request, from a first content provider, to apply a first filter to the virtual environment, the first request comprising an indication of a filtering criterion, and the first filter for filtering displayable objects corresponding to the first content provider from viewing by a first web client that meets the filtering criterion indicated by the first request from the first content provider; determining, by a processor, a filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects based on the first request, wherein the filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects corresponds to the first content provider; and responsive to receiving a second request, from the first web client, for a set of displayable objects from the virtual networking environment, providing the plurality of interfaces to the first web client while hiding displayable objects from the filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects and additional displayable objects dependent thereon in the plurality of interfaces.