System and method for conversation discovery

Abstract

Embodiments of a system and method for sharing content across a social network can include: receiving content (e.g., a content update) for a content channel (e.g., at a channel node of a set of remote channel nodes); assigning a content identifier to the content; transmitting the content with the content identifier to a user account associated with the content channel; and modifying the content channel with the content based on the content identifier.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A distributed social network (SN) comprising:
 a set of remote channel nodes storing a set of distributed channel identifiers, the set of remote channel nodes comprising a channel node configured to:
 store a channel identifier from the set of distributed channel identifiers; 
 store a set of user account identifiers associated with the channel identifier; 
 receive a media update for media associated with a media channel identified by the channel identifier; and 
 transmit the media update to a first user account identified by the set of user account identifiers; and 
   a first SN client operating on a first user device associated with the first user account, the first SN client configured to:
 store a first local channel at the first user device, the first local channel corresponding to the media channel and comprising the media; 
 receive the media update from the channel node; and 
 update the first local channel with the media update.