Patent ID: 7941535

Claim:
A method of providing Internet content to a user utilizing social networks, the method comprising: providing Internet usage data for a plurality of users; determining which users belong to the same social network; and providing at least one of the users access to Internet usage data for those other users who are in the same social network; wherein providing at least one of the users access to Internet usage data comprises enabling users to send messages to other users anonymously based on their Internet usage data; creating a metric for the determining the likelihood of user response, based on factors including at least one of the following: (a) response time to past messages, (b) how the user receiving the message is connected to the user sending the message, (c) a message topic, one or more message topics that garnered a response in the past, (d) a number of messages the recipient has received or sent, (e) a number of messages the sender has received/sent, and (f) Internet usage data of possible recipients to identify users with topic area interest or expertise; and prioritizing at least a portion of the messages sent by users to other users based on the metric for determining the likelihood of user response.