Patent ID: 8005909

Claim:
A method of facilitating ready social networking, comprising: obtaining from mobile telecommunication handsets and from mobile telecommunication network equipment, user activity data for a plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers over a mobile telecommunication network, the user activity data comprising at least one of voice call records, Simple Messaging Service (SMS) records, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) records; collecting the user activity data centrally at an application server to form a ready social network of persons interacting with each other without actively seeking to form a social network; mining at the application server the user activity data collected for each of the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers, to form clusters relevant for that mobile telecommunication subscriber; providing at the application server an application programming interface (API) based on the user activity data available; providing an application services module that provides a plurality of application services using said API, to the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers; providing an user interface at each of the mobile telecommunication handsets to enable to access to said application services and said API through the mobile telecommunication handsets.