Patent ID: 8489517

Claim:
A method for clique based social networking and social graphing, the method executed on a processor and comprising: enrolling a plurality of users; permitting any of said plurality of enrolled users to create a plurality of networks, each said network associated to at least one particular user; requiring said users to associate at least one other user to each said network; permitting said users to associate at least one other network to each said network, wherein said at least one other user associated to said network may also create a plurality of networks; storing said users, said networks, and said user's associations to said networks on a database system, said database system implemented on a non-transitory storage medium on a computing system; designating one said user as a primary user; identifying said primary user's in-network users according to a set of rules, said set of rules including: marking, by said computing system, in said database system as a first degree connection to said primary user all said users associated with at least one of said primary user's said networks; and marking, by said computing system, in said database system all said first degree connections as in-network connections to said primary user; marking, by said computing system, in said database system as a second degree connection to said primary user: each said user associated with at least one of said first degree connection's networks where said primary user is also associated to the same said network; and said user is not said primary user or marked as one of said first degree connections; and marking, by said computing system, in said database system all said second degree connections as in-network connections to said primary user; disseminating information from said primary user to said in-network connections.