Patent Document ID: 8868560
Application ID: 11874881

Base Claim:
1. A method of knowledge management networking, the knowledge management networking method comprising: hosting a web-space having a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects to include representations of a set of users, a set of web-items, and a set of nets, wherein a net of the set of nets is a subset of the web-space comprising a sub-plurality of the plurality of objects; identifying semantic metadata of the plurality of objects in the web-space from one or more of user metadata of the set of users, web-item metadata of the set of web-items, and net metadata of the set of nets; tracking an explicit relationship between at least two objects of the set of objects, the explicit relationship to be specified by a user of the set of users; identifying an implicit relationship between at least two objects of the set of objects, the implicit relationship to be identified based on a semantic relationship between the at least two objects; determining a default set of privacy rules governing access between at least two objects based on one or more of an explicit relationship and an implicit relationship between the two objects; identifying a first of the set of users having one or more of an explicit relationship and an implicit relationship with a first subset of the set of web-items and a first subset of the set of nets; determining a second subset of the set of web-items and a second subset of the set of nets, wherein semantic metadata of the first subset of web-items and the first subset of nets and semantic metadata of the second subset of web-items and the second subset of nets are related; identifying a second subset of the set of users having one or more of an explicit relationship and an implicit relationship with one or more of the second subset of web-items and the second subset of nets; and establishing a semantic social link between the first user and the second subset of users.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein an explicit relationship comprises one or more of, a connection between two users of the set of users in the web-space having a pre-determined relationship, an association of a given user with a web-item in the web-space when the given user requests to add the web-item to the web-space, and an association of a specific user with a net, wherein the association of the specific user with the net includes one or more of, creation of the net by the specific user and membership of the specific user in the net.