JP2008197839A - Information management device, method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce complication forcing two operations of invitation of an invitee by an inviter and setting of human relations, and to perform information disclosure according to the desire of the inviter to the invitee. <P>SOLUTION: An admission reception part 12 stores input user information into a member account DB 21 according to an instruction of the effect that the user information of a user B input from a terminal 101b is decided. Simultaneously, the admission reception part 12 stores the human relations of the inviter (a user A) to the invitee (the user B) input to the admission reception part 12 from the terminal 101a into a human relations DB 22. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technology for managing and providing content in various registration-based network services such as a social network service (SNS).

  In recent years, a service called a social network service (SNS) has become widespread. The SNS is a website opened for the purpose of expanding new friendships by inviting friends to each other. The SNS forms a group called a community where users with the same interests and interests gather, and on the community website, community members exchange information on common topics and share information.

Patent Documents 1 and 2 are examples of such techniques. According to Patent Document 1, a service is provided to invited non-members before joining. According to Patent Document 2, a social network service for mobile terminals is provided.
JP 2005-322070 A JP 2006-23876 A

  SNS employs an invitation system that cannot be joined without an invitation from an existing member, and the invitee is registered as a friend of the invitee. On the other hand, there is a need to divide friends into various human relationship categories (such as “best friends” and “acquaintances”) and to specify a category as a member's profile information or diary publication destination.

  However, in order to specify a friendship category of a friend invited by himself, the category is set after the invited member is registered after the invitation. In this case, the inviter performs two actions with the waiting state in between, and the operation is complicated.

  In addition, a time lag occurs between the joining of the invitee and the setting of the human relationship category by the invitee, and during that time, information different from the invitee's wish is disclosed.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and reduces the complexity of inviting the invitee by the inviter and setting the human relationship, and is in line with the wish of the invitee. Disclose information to invitees.

  The present invention is an information management apparatus for managing a membership-based content service that permits registration of a new member in response to an invitation of a registered member and provides various contents to the registered member. A member information storage unit that receives and stores information registration, a human relationship information storage unit that stores information that defines human relationships between members, a content storage unit that stores content posted by members, and a member information storage unit Issuing an invitation containing information indicating that the invitee has been invited as a member and information identifying the relationship between the inviter and the invitee from the inviter's terminal whose membership information is stored in And an invitation issuance unit that transmits an invitation to the invitee's terminal, and the member information storage unit accepts the new member registration of the invitee from the invitee's terminal And the personal relationship information storage unit stores the personal information from the inviter to the invitee in response to the member information related to the invitee being stored in the member information storage unit. Remember.

  According to the present invention, since the personal relationship can also be set when the invitation is issued, the invitee discloses the content including his / her information to the invitee in accordance with the personal relationship after completing the membership registration of the invitee. Can do.

  In addition, there is no need to set up a human relationship after completing the registration of the invitee, and the time lag from invitation to disclosure of content according to the human relationship can be shortened. The number of operations, ie, issuing commands and setting human relations, is reduced to one.

  This information management device refers to the human relationship from the inviter stored in the human relationship information storage unit to the invitee when receiving a request to browse the content posted by the inviter from the invitee's terminal, The content output unit may further include a content output unit that determines whether or not the content posted by the inviter is public and then transmits the inviter's content to the invitee's terminal according to whether the content is public.

  The present invention is an information management method for managing a membership-based content service that permits registration of a new member in response to an invitation of a registered member and provides various contents to the registered member. Accepting and registering information, storing information defining human relationships between members, storing content posted by members, and invitees who are members who store member information From the terminal, accepting an instruction to issue an invitation including information indicating that the invitee has been invited as a member and information specifying the human relationship from the inviter to the invitee, and sending the invitation to the invitee's terminal A step of transmitting, a step of storing member information of the invitee in response to accepting a new member registration of the invitee from the invitee's terminal, and a meeting relating to the invitee Depending on the information is stored, including the steps of storing relationships to invitees invitees.

  A program for causing a computer to execute this information management method is also included in the present invention.

  According to the present invention, since the personal relationship can also be set when the invitation is issued, the invitee discloses the content including his / her information to the invitee in accordance with the personal relationship after completing the membership registration of the invitee. Can do.

  In addition, there is no need to set up a human relationship after completing the registration of the invitee, and the time lag from invitation to disclosure of content according to the human relationship can be shortened. The number of operations, ie, issuing commands and setting human relations, is reduced to one.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a social network service (SNS) system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In this system, when a plurality of terminals 101a, 101b,... (Consisting of terminals 101) configured by a personal computer, a mobile phone, a PDA, etc. access the server 50 via the network 5 such as the Internet, The content posted by the other party can be viewed through 50 mediations, and information can be exchanged between them.

  The server 50 includes an invitation issuing unit 11, a membership receiving unit 12, a member content output unit 13, a member account DB 21, a human relationship DB 22, and a member content DB 23.

  Although illustration is omitted, the member account DB 21 stores user ID, user name, profile and other information (user information) related to the user, which is identification information of the user of the terminal 101. Information exchange by the mediation of the server 50 is possible only between users (registrants) whose user information is registered in the member account DB 21.

  The invitation issuing unit 11 instructs to invite a user B (invitee) who wants to become a new registrant from the terminal 101a of an inviter (user A) who is a specific registrant. In response to this, a notification urging input of information for membership registration is transmitted to the invitee's terminal 101b by e-mail or the like. This notification is called an invitation. The e-mail address of the invitee is taught in advance to a specific registrant (inviter) who has accepted the invitation from the applicant who wants to register, and this is sent from the inviter's terminal 101a to a predetermined invitation issuance instruction screen (FIG. 6) to the invitation issuing unit 11.

  When the invitee's terminal 101b receives the invitation from the invitation issuing unit 11, the invitee's user information is transmitted to the admission receiving unit 12 in accordance with the registration method specified therein. Upon receipt of the invitee's user information, the enrollment reception unit 12 registers this in the member account DB 21. At this point, invitee user B becomes a registrant. Hereinafter, a registrant is simply represented by a user.

  In addition, since the registrant itself does not exist when the SNS system is established, in order to secure the registrant to some extent, the registration applicant can freely register the user information without notice of the invitation from the invitation issuing unit 11 in advance. You may do it.

  As illustrated in FIG. 2, the human relationship DB 22 stores user IDs of other users who have a human relationship with a specific user. Here, for example, the human relationship from the user C to the user D is stored as “friend”. On the other hand, the human relationship from the user D to the user C is stored as “best friend”. Two human relationships between the same members do not always match each other. This is because the human relationship with the other party is set according to the subjective intention of each user.

  FIG. 3 is information stored in the member content DB 23 that specifies the range of human relations (publication range) with other users to which each user discloses his / her personal information (profession, residence, birthday, etc.). Is illustrated.

  Here, for example, the range of the human relationship that allows the disclosure of the personal information “profession” about the user A is “best friend” or “acquaintance”.

  Although not shown in the drawing, the member content DB 23 stores content (profile, diary, etc.) arbitrarily posted and registered by each user. Each user's content may include personal information about the user.

  The member content output unit 13 controls transmission of content including personal information according to public information. For example, the member content output unit 13 determines that the content including the “profession” of the user A is disclosed only to a user (for example, the user B) for which the personal relationship “best friend” or “acquaintance” is set. . Then, the content including the “profession” of the user A is transmitted only to the user terminals belonging to the disclosure range, for example, the user B terminal 101 b.

  FIG. 4 shows the flow of invitation processing executed in this system.

  In S1, from the terminal 101a of the inviter (user A), the personal relationship to the invitee (user B) and the email address of the invitee are specified on the invitation issuance screen, and the invitation is issued to the server 50. Instruct. In the invitation issuance screen of FIG. 6, “B@domain.com” is designated as the email address of the invitee (user B) terminal 101b, and “acquaintance” is designated as the human relationship.

  An invitation issuing instruction is transmitted from the terminal 101a to the invitation issuing unit 11 together with information for specifying the human relationship of the inviter (user A) to the invitee (user B). However, there is no necessity to send a specific personal relationship such as “best friend” to the server 50 at the same time as the invitation issuance command. For example, an ID specifying a human relationship may be transmitted simultaneously with an invitation issuance instruction, and a human relationship corresponding to the ID may be separately input from the terminal 101a or other input means.

  Further, in the invitation issuance screen shown in FIG. 3, a system is adopted in which the human relationship with the referee is designated by selecting an arbitrary one from the predetermined human relationships “best friends” and “acquaintances” prepared in advance. However, the inviter may arbitrarily create a new human relationship (for example, “work associate”) and specify it as the human relationship with the invitee.

  In S2, the invitation issuing unit 11 transmits an invitation to the terminal 101b of the user B specified on the invitation issuing screen in response to a command from the terminal 101a.

  In S <b> 3, the user B terminal 101 b receives an invitation from the server 50. The invitation includes a unique one-time code for the admission receiving unit 12 to identify the inviter and the invitee and an address (URL) for the terminal 101b to access the admission receiving unit 12.

  In S4, the admission receiving unit 12 receives an application for user B's membership (input of user information of the invitee) from the terminal 101b of the user B who has accessed according to the address of the invitation. When applying for membership, the inviter and the invitee are identified by a unique code included in the invitation.

  In S5, the enrollment reception unit 12 stores the input user information in the member account DB 21 in response to an instruction indicating that the user information of the user B input from the terminal 101b is confirmed. At the same time, the admission receiving unit 12 shows the human relationship (the part “R” in FIG. 2) of the inviter (user A) to the invitee (user B) input to the admission receiving unit 12 from the terminal 101a in S1. And stored in the human relation DB 22. Note that the human relationship stored here does not have to be absolute fixed information, and may be changed later.

  FIG. 5 shows the flow of content transmission processing executed in this system. This process is performed after the invitation process.

  In S11, the server 50 issues an instruction to request browsing display of the content posted by the user A who is the content request destination user (here, the profile of the user A) from the terminal 101b of the user B who is the content request source user. Sent to. This instruction is performed by various operations (such as clicking a hyperlink) on the terminal 101b.

  In S12, the member content output unit 13 refers to the human relationship DB 22 and confirms the human relationship of the content request destination user (user A) with the content request source user (user B).

  In S13, the member content output unit 13 determines whether the human relationship of the content request destination user (user A) to the content request source user (user B) falls within the disclosure range of the personal information of the content request destination user (user A). Judge whether or not. If applicable, the process proceeds to S14. Otherwise, the process proceeds to S15.

  In S14, the member content output unit 13 extracts the requested content from the member content DB 23 and transmits it to the terminal 101b of the content request destination user (user B). When the terminal 101b receives the content, the terminal 101b displays the content on the display.

  In S15, the personal information included in the requested content is replaced with text such as “private” and the content is transmitted to the terminal 101b of the content requesting user (user B). When the terminal 101b receives the content, the terminal 101b displays the content on the display. As shown in FIG. 7, although the occupation and place of residence are displayed as the profile of the user A on the display of the terminal 101 b, the birthday is not displayed, and “non-public” is replaced.

  Conventionally, since the personal relationship is set after the member registration, the invitee cannot browse the content including the personal information of the invitee until the personal relationship is set by the inviter. Even if it is browsed, there is no human relationship, so the invitee has to disclose all personal information uniformly, and there is a problem.

  However, in this embodiment, since the personal relationship can also be set when the invitation is issued, the inviter can appropriately and quickly disclose the content including his / her personal information to the invitee according to this personal relationship. .

  In addition, since the personal relationship can be set at the time of issuing the invitation, there is no need to set the personal relationship after waiting for the invitee registration, and the time lag from introduction to content disclosure can be shortened. The number of two operations of issuing invitations and setting human relations is reduced to one.

Schematic configuration diagram of social network service (SNS) system Conceptual illustration of information in the human relations DB Conceptual explanatory diagram of information in member content DB Invitation process flowchart Flow chart of content transmission processing Invitation issuance instruction screen The figure which shows the example of a display of the profile of an invitee in a terminal of an invitee

Explanation of symbols

11: Invitation issuing unit, 12: Membership reception unit, 13: Member content output unit, 14: Member account DB, 22: Human relationship DB, 23: Member content DB, 50: Server, 101: Terminal

Claims (4)

An information management apparatus for managing a membership-based content service that permits registration of a new member in response to an invitation of a registered member and provides various contents to the registered member,
A member information storage unit that accepts and stores registration of member information related to member management;
A human relationship information storage unit for storing information defining the human relationship between the members;
A content storage unit for storing content posted by the member;
The information indicating that the invitee is invited as a member and the personal relationship from the inviter to the invitee are identified from the terminal of the invitee who is a member whose membership information is stored in the member information storage unit Receiving an instruction to issue an invitation containing information to be sent, and sending an invitation to the invitee's terminal, an invitation issuing unit,
With
The member information storage unit stores member information of the invitee in response to accepting a new member registration of the invitee from the invitee's terminal,
The human relationship information storage unit is an information management device that stores a human relationship from the inviter to the invitee in response to member information relating to the invitee being stored in the member information storage unit.   When receiving a request for browsing the content posted by the inviter from the invitee's terminal, refer to the human relationship from the inviter to the invitee stored in the human relationship information storage unit, and The information management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a content output unit that determines whether or not the content posted by the inviter is public and then transmits the inviter's content to the invitee's terminal according to the disclosure permission or not. . An information management method for managing a membership-based content service that permits registration of a new member in response to an invitation of a registered member and provides various contents to the registered member,
Receiving and storing member information registration regarding member management;
Storing information defining human relationships between the members;
Storing the content posted by the member;
Invitation including information indicating that the invitee has been invited as a member from the inviter's terminal that is the member in which the member information is stored, and information specifying the human relationship from the inviter to the invitee Receiving a command to issue a letter, and sending the invitation to the invitee's terminal;
In response to accepting a new member registration of the invitee from the invitee's terminal, storing the invitee member information;
Storing the human relationship of the inviter to the invitee in response to storing member information regarding the invitee;
Information management method.   A program for causing a computer to execute the information management method according to claim 3.

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