Patent ID: 7734589

Claim:
A central node for a digital asset sharing system comprising: a) a communication interface coupled to a network; and b) a control system associated with the communication interface and adapted to: i) receive a list of keywords from a client node, wherein the list of keywords comprises a plurality of keywords and each of a plurality of digital assets residing at the client node are tagged with at least one of the plurality of keywords; ii) receive a request from the client node to send invitations to a plurality of potential guests; iii) send an invitation including the list of keywords to each of the plurality of potential guests, wherein one or more of the plurality of potential guests selects at least one desired keyword from the list of keywords; iv) receive responses identifying the at least one desired keyword selected by the one or more of the plurality of potential guests; v) process the responses to form a list of desired keywords including the at least one desired keyword selected by the one or more of the plurality of potential guests; and i) request ones of the plurality of digital assets tagged with at least one keyword from the list of desired keywords from the client node.