Trusted social network

摘要

A technique for trusted social networking involves enabling parties to join a social network and provide a list of trusted content sources. The system can maintain folders associated with each of the trusted content sources for a first member. If one of the trusted content sources is a second member that indicates the first member is trusted, then the system can maintain a master folder for the first and second member.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a processor; a memory; a one-way trust lists datastore loaded in the memory including a first one-way trust list of a first member and a second one-way trust list of a second member, wherein the first one-way trust list stores information identifying a first set of members related to the first member that reciprocally trust each other, wherein the second one-way trust list information identifying a second set of members related to the second member that reciprocally trust each other, and wherein in order to become a reciprocal trusted member between two members, both members have to send a specific message to the other counterpart member to specifically agree to be a trusted member of the other counterpart member; a master reciprocated trust folders datastore loaded in the memory to store a plurality of reciprocated trusted folders, each of the reciprocated trusted folders storing content exchanged amongst corresponding members that reciprocally trust each other; and a reciprocated trust management engine loaded in the memory and executed by the processor, the reciprocated trust management engine being coupled to the one-way trust lists datastore and to the master reciprocated trust folders datastore; wherein, the reciprocated trust management engine:
receives first content exchanged between the first member and the second member;in response to the first content, matches a first entry in the first one-way trust list with the second member to determine whether the first member trusts the second member, wherein the first entry includes identifying information of the second member if the first member trusts the second member;matches a second entry in the second one-way trust list with the first member to determine whether the second member trusts the first member, wherein the second entry includes identifying information of the first member if the second member trusts the first member;creates a first reciprocated trust folder for a group of members including the first member and the second member only if the first entry of the first one-way trust list matches the second member and the second entry of the second one-way trust list matches the first member;stores the first content as trusted content in the first reciprocated trust folder;maintains the first reciprocated trust folder in the master reciprocated trust folders datastore as one of the plurality of reciprocated trust folders stored therein;only both the first member and the second member have access to the trusted content from the first reciprocated trust folder, including modifying the trusted content stored in the first reciprocated trust folder; andthe first reciprocated trust folder stores a single instance of the trusted content that is shared between the first member and the second member.