Patent Document ID: 9742853
Application ID: 14512442
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer system for disseminating content among interconnected client computers, wherein said computer system comprises three or more client computers digitally interconnected with one another to form a distributed communications network, wherein, (A) each of said interconnected client computers comprises: a means for inputting data, a means for receiving content provided by another client computer, a means for providing content to another client computer, a means for presenting content to a user, a computer-addressable memory for storing content and programming instructions and a processor for processing data and for implementing said programming instructions; (B) said client computers are interconnected to one another directly or through one or more other client computers; and (C) each of said interconnected client computers receives content from and/or provides content to another of said interconnected client computers, wherein said provided content adjusts in response to changes in Favorability Value assigned by interconnected client content-providing computers and in response to a Favorability Value assigned to such content by interconnected client content-receiving computers, thereby disseminating such content across said distributed network; wherein said Favorability Value is determined by a Favorability Function that considers one or more client-selected or network-selected Favorability Parameter(s); with the proviso that when said selected Favorability Parameters include both vote and time, the Favorability Function shall additionally consider one or more additional Favorability Parameter(s).