Patent ID: 8566394

Claim:
A system comprising: a question processing manager embodied via executable instructions stored on a machine readable storage device; at least one device processor configured to execute at least a portion of the executable instructions stored on the machine readable storage device, the question processing manager including: a question input engine configured to receive a question from a first user; a connection determination engine configured to determine, via a device processor, a first group of connection users having a connection user association with the first user in a content graph; a question dissemination engine configured to initiate a transmission of the question and a search link that is determined by the system based on content of the received question, to each of at least a portion of the connection users included in the first group; a response receiving engine configured to receive one or more first responses from one or more of the connection users included in the at least a portion of the connection users; and a graph update engine configured to: initiate a first update to the content graph, after receipt of the question at the question input engine, the first update including an addition of a first node representing the received question and a first link associating the first user with the first node, the first link indicating an action of the first user asking the question represented by the first node, and initiate a second update to the content graph, after receipt of one of the first responses at the response receiving engine, the second update including an addition of a second link associating one of the connection users associated with the one of the received first responses, with the first node, the second link indicating an action of the one of the connection users answering the question.