Patent ID: 7152110

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing an instantaneous network between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, each mobile device having ad hoc networking capability; sending first information in a nodal tree structure from the first mobile device to the second mobile device automatically, the first information including at least information received by the first mobile device from one or more third devices other than the first mobile device and the second mobile device during at least one instantaneous network previously established between the first mobile device and the one or more third devices; and, storing the first information at the second mobile device in a second tree data structure; wherein the first mobile device is not part of the at least one instantaneous network previously established between the first mobile device and the one or more third devices during the establishing and the sending; and wherein the second tree data structure has multiple nodes such that a number of levels in the second tree data structure between two nodes of the multiple nodes indicates a degree of separation between two devices that are represented by the two nodes.