Patent ID: 8769097

Claim:
A computer system for facilitating sharing, over a communications network, of a user's social network account data among a plurality of social networks, comprising: a database storage device for storing a first user's social network account data comprising profile data, relationship data and privilege data, wherein profile data comprises at least the first user's name and location, relationship data comprises connections with others representing social relationships, and privilege data comprises a list of permissions and dynamic rules, wherein each permission defines whether the first user may view an individual piece of data in an account of another user; a server communicatively connected to the database storage device, the server including a memory device, a network interface device communicatively coupled with the communications network, and a processor configured for: reading, over the communications network, the first user's social network account data from a first social network, and storing the social network account data in the database storage device; accessing, over the communications network, a second social network; identifying users in the second social network to which the first user has a connection in the first social network; transmitting, via the communications network, to the second social network: a) the profile data of the first user, b) only the relationship data of the first user that pertains to the users that were identified above, and c) only the privilege data of the first user that pertains to the users that were identified above; monitoring, via the communications network, the first user's social network account data on the first social network and, upon detecting any update of the first user's social network account data on the first social network, uploading, via the communications network, said update of the first user's social network account data to the second social network; establishing a connection representing a social relationship between the first user and a second user, wherein the relationship data in the first user's social network account data reflects the connection with the second user and wherein privilege data in the first and second user's social network account data reflects that the first user has the same permissions to view data of the second user as the second user has to view data of the first user; and establishing another connection representing a social relationship between the first user and a third user via the second user, wherein the relationship data in the first user's social network account data reflects the connection with the third user and wherein privilege data in the third user's social network account data reflects that the third user has the same permissions to view data of the first user as the second user has to view data of the first user.