Patent ID: 8880616

Claim:
A method for distributing contents to several users, comprising: interconnecting users as members of one or more social groups with the social group members pre-arranged from the user side by the user, comprising a) based on a user's context and using a pull agent in one of i) a user-side device and ii) a network-side component, obtaining contents items from contents offered from different content channels, by executing a channel management operation comprising the sub-steps of: using the pull agent to gather information regarding channel profiles from the different content channels, the different content channels serving as different sources of information, the channel profiles containing information of the content of the respective content channels, and based on the gathered information regarding the profiles provided to the pull agent, using the pull agent to perform a pull process from each of the different content channels to obtain the contents items; b) based on the pull process from each of the different content channels, executing a distribution logic to create personalized group-related contents, the group-related contents being personalized to each of the members of each social group, by the sub-steps of: a selecting sub-steps of i) analyzing information stored in the obtained contents items and ii) creating a correlation of content and group profiles, the group profiles stored in a database and contain information regarding a group ID, a social group profile with social group properties, and a push period, based on the created correlation, gathering selected contents items from the obtained contents items, embedding communication IQ triggers into the gather contents items to initiate a communication with the members of the group to define a delivery configuration; and c) based on the delivery configuration, using a push agent to push the personalized group-related contents to the pre-arranged members of the social group with the content being distributed to multiple users and personalized for each of the multiple users, wherein in the framework of the generation of the group-content-correlation a communication channel, over which the group members can be reached, is set, and wherein the distribution logic includes the user selecting a distribution mode from plural available distribution modes, the selected distribution mode determining i) which members of the pre-arranged members of the social member to which the personalized group-related contents will be pushed by the push agent, and ii) for the members receiving the personalized group-related contents pushed by the push agent, further distribution rights of the personalized group-related contents.