Patent ID: 8631070

Claim:
A system for enabling a group of contacts to share data related to a social event as the social event occurs, the system comprising: a data store that stores data related to one or more social events; and a computing device in communication with the data store, the computing device operative to: obtain data related to a social event of interest to the group of contacts, which data is stored in the data store and updated as the social event occurs with data obtained from one or more external data sources and one or more contacts of the group; and cause the data related to the social event of interest to be displayed on one or more computing devices, each computing device associated with a contact of the group, wherein the data related to the social event of interest is displayed in an area of prominence on the computing device for a duration of the social event until another action is taken by the contact associated with the computing device, in which case the data related to the social event of interest is automatically redisplayed in the area of prominence on the computing device following completion of the action taken by the contact.