Patent ID: 7756918

Claim:
A method of generating a group of persons from a plurality of participating persons for enabling networking, said method comprising: (a) each participating person selecting a set of indications, the set of indications consisting only of at least one other participating person that said each participating person wishes to meet; (b) recording the set of indications in a database after selecting; (c) processing the set of indications recorded in the database by a computerized system to form the group, the processing comprising: (i) including as a first member of the group any participating person who has indicated at least one other participating person in the set of indications, thereby becoming a first last new member of the group; (ii) including the group only one other participating person indicated in the set of indications of the first last new member of the group, the one other participating person thereby then becoming the a second last new member of the group after joining the group, the second last new member of the group superseding the first last new member of the group, so that there is only one last new member of the group at any point in time; (iii) including in the group only one other participating person indicated in the set of indications of the second last new member of the group, the one other participating person thereby then becoming a third last new member of the group after joining the group, the third last new member of the group superseding the second last new member of the group, so that there is only one last new member of the group at any point in time; and (iv) repeatedly including only one new person to the group from the set of indications of the last new member of the group until a new person to be included in the group is already included in the group.