Patent ID: 9183513
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a sharing server to communicate with multiple connection devices; wherein a first one of the connection devices is configured to communicate with user devices within a local user environment to collect social network contacts of a user from one or more of the user devices; wherein the sharing server is configured to combine the social network contacts of the user as an aggregated social networking contact list of the user, and provide the aggregated social networking contact list of the user to the first connection device; wherein the first connection device is further configured to permit the user to initiate an aggregated social network, including to permit the user to select contacts of the aggregated social networking contact list to invite as members of the aggregated social network; wherein the sharing server is further configured to host the aggregated social network, including to receive permission from the members of the aggregated social network to share content of the respective members within the aggregated social network, aggregate content shared by the members as aggregated social network content, and provide the aggregated social network content to connection devices of the respective members; and wherein the connection devices are further configured to combine the aggregated social network content with main content of the respective connection devices, and to provide the combined content to respective displays.