Patent ID: 8782125

Claim:
A method for a virtual networking environment having a plurality of user accounts, a plurality of interfaces, and a plurality of displayable objects, each interface comprising a corresponding set of the displayable objects, and each displayable object representing a corresponding user account, the method comprising: receiving a first request from a first user account to apply a first filter to the virtual networking environment, the first request comprising an indication of a user criterion, and the first filter for filtering displayable objects corresponding to the first user account from viewing by a second user account that meets the user criterion indicated by the first request from the first user; identifying a filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects based on the first request, wherein the filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects corresponds to the first user account; and responsive to receiving a second request from the second user account for a set of displayable objects from the virtual networking environment, providing the plurality of interfaces to the second user account while hiding displayable objects from the filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects, in each of the plurality of interfaces of the networking environment and while also hiding additional displayable objects from the plurality of displayable objects that are dependent on one or more displayable objects from the filtered subset of the plurality of displayable objects.