Patent ID: 8402054

Claim:
A method comprising: storing, by a content storage and retrieval subsystem comprising at least one computing device, data representative of a plurality of content instances associated with a plurality of user profiles; receiving, by said content storage and retrieval subsystem from an access device associated with a user, a request for a content instance within said plurality of content instances, wherein said user and said content instance are associated with a user profile within said plurality of user profiles; identifying, by said content storage and retrieval subsystem, a plurality of other content instances as being related to said content instance based on a predefined relationship heuristic comprising at least one custom relationship condition defined by said user, wherein said other content instances are associated with other user profiles within said plurality of user profiles; determining, by said content storage and retrieval subsystem, a relevance between said user profile and each of said other user profiles based on a predefined relevance heuristic; prioritizing, by said content storage and retrieval subsystem, said other content instances relative to one another based on said determined relevance; and providing, by said content storage and retrieval subsystem in response to said request, data representative of said content instance and said prioritized content instances to said access device.