Patent ID: 8725796

Claim:
A method of operating a digital social relationship network, comprising the steps of: storing in a social network server computer a digital social network representation corresponding to a graph having nodes representing individuals or groups and links representing actual social relationships between the individuals or groups; obtaining relationship-dependent information corresponding to a plurality of links of the graph; embedding the relationship-dependent information in the digital social network representation stored in the social network server computer; interactively presenting to a user of a client computer connected to the social network server computer a user-viewable display of a social network of the individuals or groups and the social relationships between the individuals or groups; receiving, at the social network server computer, input from the user of the client computer selecting, from the user-viewable display of the social network and the social relationships, at least one of the social relationships between individuals or groups other than the user; and presenting to the user of the client computer a user-viewable social relationship profile page, specific to the social relationship selected by the user, comprising a user-viewable display of the relationship-dependent information corresponding to the social relationship selected by the user of the client computer, wherein the relationship-dependent information of the social relationship profile page comprises postings to the social relationship profile page by at least one of the individuals or groups participating in the social relationship corresponding to the social relationship profile page, a user-viewable display of the postings being viewable by the user of the client computer through the presentation of the social relationship profile page to the user, wherein the step of presenting to the user of the client computer the social relationship profile page comprises presenting a web page corresponding to the social relationship selected by the user of the client computer.