Patent ID: 7941447

Claim:
An apparatus including a server coupled to a communication network configured to establish and update relationships between members registered to a relationships registering system coupled to the communication network, the apparatus comprising: a database configured to store degrees of relationship between the members and personal attribute information including identification information of the members; a data receiver configured to receive a first member request via the communication network for the direct human relationships of a second member stored in the database; a data retriever configured to retrieve from the database, in response to the first member request, personal attribute information of at least a third member directly related to the second member; a data sender configured to communicate via the communication network to a first member the retrieved personal attribute information of at least the third member; and a message communicator configured to communicate via the communication network to the third member a first message indicating that the first member wishes to establish a direct human relationship with the third member, and to communicate via the communication network a second message to the first member indicating that the third member has accepted the direct human relationship with the first member, wherein the database is further configured to update the degrees of relationship between the members to indicate a direct human relationship between the first member and the third member once the message communicator communicates the second message.