System and method for socially aware identity manager

A method comprising:

• gathering, over a network, spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to a plurality of users using a global index of data available to the network;
• identifying, via the network, relationships among the plurality of users using the gathered data;
• for each of the plurality of end users having at least one relationship to at least a second one of the plurality of end users;
• determining, via the network, if the at least one relationship meets at least one publication criteria, and, if so
• selecting, via the network, a subset of the data relating to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users that relates to at least one publication criteria;
• transmitting, over the network subset of the data relating to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users to the end user having the at least one relationship to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users.

A system comprising:

• a user manager that receives requests, over a network, from a first user for data relating to a second user, wherein the request comprises an identification of the second user;
• a matching manager that:
• retrieves spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to the first user and the second user using a global index of data available to the network;
• filters the data relating to the second user, using at least one filter criteria;
• and
• selects a subset of the filtered data relating to the second user using at least one selection criteria;
• and
• a publishing manager that transmits, over the network, the filtered subset of data relating to the second user to the first user.

A system comprising:

• a matching manager that:
• gathers, over a network, spatial, temporal, topical, and social data relating to a plurality of users using a global index of data available to the network,
• identifies relationships among the plurality of users using the gathered data;
• for each of the plurality of end users having at least one relationship to at least a second one of the plurality of end users:
• determines if the at least one relationship meets at least one publication criteria, and, if so
• selects, via the network, a subset of the data relating to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users that relates to at feast one publication criteria;
• a publishing manager that transmits, over the network the subset of the data relating to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users to the end user having the at least one relationship to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users.

A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for a method comprising the steps of:

• receiving a requests over a network, from a first user for data relating to a second user, wherein the request comprises an identification of the second user;
• retrieving spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to the second user using a global index of data available to the network;
• filtering, via the network, the data relating to the second user, using at least one filter criteria;
• selecting, via the network, a subset of the filtered data relating to the second user using at least one selection criteria;
• transmitting, over the network, the filtered subset of data relating to the second user to the first user.

A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for a method comprising the steps of:

• gathering, over a network, spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to a plurality of users using a global index of data available to the network;
• identifying, via the network, relationships among the plurality of users using the gathered data;
• for each of the plurality of end users having at least one relationship to at least a second one of the plurality of end users:
• determining, via the network, if the at least one relationship meets at least one publication criteria, and, if so
• selecting, via the network, a subset of the data relating to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users that relates to at least one publication criteria;
• transmitting, over the network subset of the data relating to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users to the end user having the at least one relationship to the at least a second one of the plurality of end users.