Patent ID: 8761750
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of social networking using a mobile telephone device and a social network server, the mobile telephone device being adapted in use to facilitate telephone calls between a first user of the device and other users, wherein user data including identity data and contact data of the other users is initially resident upon the mobile telephone device, the method comprising: installing a client application upon a mobile telephone device of the first user; obtaining the user data from the mobile telephone device and transmitting the user data to the social network server; analyzing the user data to identify which other users, being identified by the identity data and the contact data, are also registered users of the social network server, so as to form a contact list-based social network group of the first user, wherein the first user is also part of a wider social network group maintained at the social network server, the contact list-based social network group being distinguished from the wider social network group; receiving update data at the social network server relating to at least one other user that is part of the wider social network group; following receipt of the update data of the at least one other user at the social network server, determining whether the at least one other user of the wider social network group is also part of the contact list-based social network group of the first user; and filtering, at the social network server, transmission of the update data of the at least one other user from the social network server to the mobile telephone device of the first user by transmitting the update data of the at least one other user to the mobile telephone device of the first user only when the at least one other user is also part of the contact list-based social network group of the first user.