Patent Document ID: 20170048203
Application ID: 15336129
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for promoting expansion of a social network, the system comprising: a server computer supporting a social network; computer program code, communicatively coupled to the server computer, the computer program code, when executed, causing the server computer to: determine a social relationship between a primary user of the social network and a number of other users of the social network based on comparing data for the primary user with data for the other users of the social network; present a map showing a representation of the primary user and the number of other users of the social network, wherein a strength of the determined social relationship between each other user and the primary user is indicated on the social network map; and obscure, by reducing visibility of, at least parts of the social network map so as to obscure identity of at least some of the other users represented on the social network map.