Patent ID: 7992171

Claim:
A method for distributing digital content among one or more levels within a dynamically created social network, comprising the following steps: receiving, by a first computer, a reference identifying digital content; receiving, by the first computer, one or more distribution parameters that establish limitations on how the digital content is to be distributed to one or more content recipients based on a level that corresponds to the one or more content recipients, wherein the one or more distribution parameters include a maximum level number identifying a maximum level allowed between a content producer and a respective content recipient, wherein each content recipient of the digital content has a corresponding level of a plurality of levels determined based on a number of content recipients of the digital content in a distribution path of the digital content from the content producer to the respective content recipient, and also at least one alteration definition associated with at least one of the plurality of levels that defines a required alteration of the digital content prior to permitting a content recipient associated with the at least one of the plurality of levels to perceive the digital content; creating, by the first computer, a distribution package comprising the digital content, the maximum level number, and the at least one alteration definition; and sending, by the first computer, the distribution package to at least one second computer.