Patent ID: 7822812

Claim:
A method of communicating content information related to one or more virtual user groups from a first user computer system, the method comprising: storing, by the first user computer system, first information identifying a set of one or more virtual user groups subscribed to by a user of the first user computer system, the set of virtual user groups including a first virtual user group; automatically identifying, by the first user computer system from content information accessed by a user using the first user computer system, content information that is relevant to any of the virtual user groups identified by the first information, the identified content information comprising content information that is relevant to the first virtual user group, wherein the identifying is done substantially free of any input from the user of the first user computer system; and communicating, by the first user computer system, the identified content information that is relevant to the first virtual user group to a server hosting the first virtual user group to enable communication of the identified content information relevant to the first virtual user group to one or more other subscribers of the first virtual user group.