Patent Document ID: 10069777
Application ID: 14700955

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining a visibility of an online conversation for a new participant, the method comprising: presenting a user interface (UI) to a group of users to allow each of the users in the group of users to specify tags, the tags defining relationships between each of the users; determining initial participants from the group of users for an online conversation on a social network, the online conversation created by at least one member of the initial participants to communicate among each other; identifying, based on the tags, a subject for the online conversation with respect to each of the initial participants of the online conversation; the tags being assigned to each of the initial participants associated with the online conversation by at least one of the users in the group of users; determining, based on the subject, a visibility of the online conversation for a new participant from the group of users; in which the visibility is further based on a tolerant mode, the tolerant mode allowing the new participant to access the online conversation if at least one of the tags of at least one of the initial participants defines a subject for which the new participant is also tagged.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising monitoring the online conversation on the social network.