Patent Document ID: 7526459
Application ID: 11419563

Base Claim:
1. An adaptive social network system, comprising: a computer-implemented structural aspect comprising a plurality of objects and at least one relationship between a first object and a second object; a representation of one or more users of the system as one or more objects of the plurality of objects; a usage aspect, comprising captured usage behaviors, wherein the usage behaviors are associated with one or more users; a function to determine an affinity between a first user represented as an object and a second user represented as an object of the plurality of objects based, at least in part, on inferred interests derived from the e plurality of usage behaviors associated with the one or more users; and a function to generate a user accessible social network representation, wherein the social network representation comprises a plurality of users represented as objects and the affinity between the representation of a first user as an object and the representation of a second user as an object.

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Claim 12:
12. The adaptive social network system of claim 1 , wherein a function to generate a user accessible social network representation, wherein the social network representation comprises a plurality of users represented as objects and the affinity between the representation of a first user as an object and the representation of a second user as an object comprises: a function that automatically modifies a structural element, wherein the function that automatically modifies a structural element is selected from the group consisting of a function to generate a new relationship, a function to modify an existing relationship, a function to delete an existing relationship, a function to add an object, a function to modify an object, and a function to delete an object.