Patent Document ID: 20080270615
Application ID: 11809328
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for use with an on-line computer service having a plurality of account holders that each has at least one account with the on-line computer service, the method comprising acts of: (A) creating a social network among at least a subset of the plurality of account holders by: (A1) creating a network architecture comprising a set of nodes and a set of edges, wherein each one of the edges connects at least two of the nodes and specifies a path for a flow of information between the nodes connected by the one of the edges; and (A2) populating the network architecture by assigning each of the account holders in the at least a subset of the plurality of account holders to at least one of the nodes so that when at least one action is taken by a first account holder assigned to a first node, information relating to the at least one action is communicated to at least one second account holder assigned to a second node that is directly connected via at least one of the edges to the first node.