JP6223243B2 - Mediation device, mediation user terminal, mediation method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an intermediary device, an intermediary user terminal, an intermediation method, and a program that mediate establishment of a friend relationship between users within a service or between services using an application or Web, and that provides incentives for the intermediation.

  There is a technology for increasing the number of users of applications (hereinafter referred to as applications). For example, in a virtual reality space used by a plurality of users, a technique has been proposed that gives an incentive to an action of inviting a new user that contributes to community maintenance / expansion (see Patent Document 1). In addition, a technique has been proposed in which a user who is a friend in an application is invited to another application, and an incentive is given when the invited user starts another application (see Patent Document 2).

  On the other hand, Facebook (registered trademark) has a function of “introducing friends” in order to close friendships in the app, and users who are not in a friendship among the user groups of users themselves It is possible to mediate. Specifically, the use user arbitrarily selects two friend users A and B, and mediates in the form of introducing the user B to the user A.

JP 2012-014676 A JP2013-178751A

  However, since the techniques described in Patent Documents 1 and 2 give an incentive to the fact that the user himself / herself has established a friendship, the friendship of the app can be expanded, but it is dense. There was a problem that it was not possible. In addition, Facebook's “introducing friends” function can connect users' own friends, but there is a problem that the users themselves are not actively engaged because they have no merit.

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, the present invention provides an intermediary device, an intermediary user terminal, an intermediation method, and a program that give an incentive to a user when the user mediates the construction of a friend relationship of his / her friend The purpose is to do.

  The present invention proposes the following matters in order to solve the above problems. In addition, in order to make an understanding easy, although the code | symbol corresponding to embodiment of this invention is attached | subjected and demonstrated, it is not limited to this.

(1) The present invention is an intermediary device that mediates the establishment of friendships between users within a service or between services using an application or Web, and stores a friendship between users within the service Means (for example, the relationship storage unit 120 in FIG. 2), activity history storage means (for example, the activity history storage unit 140 in FIG. 2) for storing the activity history of users who contribute to service activation, and the user Application request accepting means (for example, the application request accepting unit 110 in FIG. 2) that accepts an application request for mediation from an intermediary user who mediates the establishment of a friend relationship, and the relation memory in response to accepting the application request A mediating friend list that associates users who are not friends in a friend group consisting of users who are friends with the mediating user by referring to the means A user who gives priority to each user of the extracted broker friend list by referring to the broker friend list extracting means (for example, broker friend list extracting unit 130 in FIG. 2) and the activity history storage means. prioritizing means (e.g., user priority giving unit 150 of FIG. 2), a is extracted the mediation friend list, and the priority granted by the user priority providing means to each user of the intermediary friend list , A mediating friend list providing means for providing the mediating user to the mediating user (for example, mediating friend list providing unit 160 in FIG. 2), and the mediating friend list selected by the mediating friend list in the friend group. Friend candidate accepting means (for example, friend candidate accepting unit 170 in FIG. 2) for accepting non-users and the friend group accepted by the friend candidate accepting means The friend candidate pair specifying unit (for example, the friend candidate pair specifying unit 180 in FIG. 2) for specifying a friend candidate pair from users who are not in a friend relationship, and the friend candidate pair specified by the friend candidate pair specifying unit The response to the construction request from both of the construction request transmitting means (for example, the construction request transmitting unit 190 in FIG. 2) for transmitting the construction request for constructing and the friend candidate pair confirms that the construction request has been approved. In the case of showing, the updating means for updating the relation storing means (for example, the updating unit 200 in FIG. 2) and the relation storing means have been updated so that the friend relationship of the friend candidate pair is established. Accordingly, an intermediary device including an incentive provision unit (for example, the incentive provision unit 210 in FIG. 2) that provides an incentive to the intermediary user is proposed.

Therefore, by giving incentives to mediation of friendship construction, and providing the mediator user with the order of recommending friendship construction based on the degree of contribution to service activation as a priority, the friend who is effective for the app Mediation of relationship building can be induced, and by receiving mediation from a friend, friendship can be easily constructed. Moreover, since it becomes easy to construct the friend relationship construction between the user's own friends, it is possible to expand the friend relationship and close the friend relationship.

(2) According to the present invention, in the intermediary device of (1), the incentive granting unit assigns the user priority to each user of the friend candidate pair whose relationship storage unit has been updated so that the friendship is established. An intermediary device is proposed in which an incentive to be given to the intermediary user is determined according to the priority order given by the means .

Therefore, the incentive of the intermediary user can be determined according to the priority order, which is the order of recommending the friendship construction, given to the friend user who has established the friendship by the intermediary user mediating. It can induce mediation of effective friendship building.

(3) The present invention proposes an intermediary device characterized in that, for the intermediary device of ( 1 ), the friend candidate pair identification means identifies the friend candidate pair from the extracted intermediary friend list. Yes.

Therefore, it is possible to automatically create a friend user pair in which the intermediary user mediates friendship construction.

(4) The present invention relates to the intermediary device of ( 3 ), referring to the activity history storage means (for example, the activity history storage unit 140 of FIG. 5), a pair that gives priority to the identified friend candidate pair Priority giving means (for example, the pair priority order giving unit 270 in FIG. 5) and friend candidate pair providing means (for example, the friend candidates in FIG. 5) for providing the friend candidate pair to which the priority order has been given to the intermediary user. A pair providing unit 280) and a friend candidate pair receiving unit (for example, a friend candidate pair receiving unit 290 in FIG. 5) that receives a friend candidate pair selected by the mediating user from the friend candidate pairs. The intermediary device is proposed.

Therefore, based on the degree of contribution to the activation of the service, a friendship construction mediation that is effective for the app can be induced by giving the friend candidate pair a priority order for recommending the mediation of the friendship construction. .

(5) The present invention provides the intermediary device according to (4), wherein the incentive assigning means assigns to the friend candidate pair whose relationship storage means has been updated so that the friend relationship is established by the pair priority order assigning means. A mediating apparatus is proposed that determines an incentive to be given to the mediating user in accordance with the priorities .

Therefore, the incentive of the intermediary user can be determined according to the priority order, which is the order of recommending intermediation of friendship construction, which is attached to the pair that has established the friendship by mediating by the intermediary user. It is possible to induce mediation of effective friendship construction.

(6) The present invention relates to a mediation support user who extracts from the relation storage means a user who has a friendship relationship with the mediation user and the friend candidate pair as a mediation support user for the mediation device of (1) to (5) Extraction means (for example, the mediation support user extraction unit 240 in FIG. 2) and mediation request means (for example, the mediation request unit 250 in FIG. 2) that transmits an approval request for mediation support of the friend candidate pair to the extracted mediation support user. And a mediation support user notification means for notifying the mediation support user of the mediation support user when the mediation support of the friend candidate pair is approved by the mediation support user in response to the approval request (for example, FIG. 2), and the incentive granting means determines the incentive in response to the update of the relation storage means. It proposes an intermediary apparatus characterized by imparting to the support user.

Therefore, it is possible to encourage mediation support by giving an incentive to a mediator user and a user who has a friendship with a friend candidate pair, and the friend candidate pair is notified that multiple users support mediation. This makes it easier to build friendships.

(7) In the present invention, for the intermediary device of (1) to (6), the incentive granting unit grants an incentive to a friend candidate pair whose relationship storage unit has been updated so that the friendship is established It proposes a mediating device characterized by

Therefore, by giving an incentive to a user whose construction of a friendship is mediated , the friendship mediated by the brokering user can be easily accepted.

(8) The present invention is an intermediary user terminal that mediates establishment of a friendship between users within a service or between services using an application or Web, and a friend made up of a user who has a friendship with the intermediary user Connected to an intermediary device that creates an intermediary friend list in which users who are not friends in the group are associated with each other, and gives each user of the intermediary friend list a priority according to an activity history that contributes to activation of the service. , An application request transmitting means (for example, an application request transmitting unit 310 in FIG. 3) for transmitting an application request for mediating the establishment of a friendship between the users, the mediating friend list, An intermediary friend list acquisition means (for example, intermediary friend list acquisition unit 320 in FIG. 3) for acquiring the priority order of each user of the intermediary friend list; A friend candidate transmitting means (for example, friend candidate transmitting unit 330 in FIG. 3) for transmitting users who are not in a friend relationship within the friend group, selected by the intermediate user from the intermediary friend list, and the friend candidate transmitting Result receiving means for receiving the result of whether or not the friend relationship of the friend candidate pair specified by the intermediary device is established from users who are not in a friend relationship within the friend group transmitted by means (for example, the result of FIG. 3 And an intermediary user terminal characterized by comprising a receiving unit 340) .

Therefore, it is possible to mediate the friendship construction effective for the application so that the friendship between the users' own friends can be easily constructed. Moreover, since it becomes easy to construct the friend relationship construction between the user's own friends, it is possible to expand the friend relationship and close the friend relationship.

(9) The present invention is an intermediary method in an intermediary device that mediates establishment of friendships between users within a service or between services using an application or Web , wherein the intermediary device is between users within the service. Storage means for storing friendship relationships, activity history storage means for storing user activity histories that contribute to service activation, user priority assignment means, application request accepting means, mediating friend list extracting means, mediating friend list provision Means, a friend candidate reception means, a friend candidate pair identification means, a construction request transmission means, an update means, and an incentive provision means, and the application request acceptance means from an intermediary user who mediates the construction of a friend relationship between the users, A first step (for example, step S102 in FIG. 4) that accepts the request for mediation, and the mediation In response to acceptance of the application request by the friend list extraction means, the relation storage means is referred to associate users who are not in a friendship relationship within a friend group consisting of users who are in a friendship relationship with the intermediary user. The second step (for example, step S103 in FIG. 4) for extracting the intermediate friend list and the user priority assigning means refer to the activity history storage means for each user of the extracted intermediate friend list. A third step of assigning a priority to the intermediate friend list, the intermediate friend list providing unit extracting the intermediate friend list, and the priority given to each user of the intermediate friend list in the third step; Are provided to the intermediary user (for example, step S104 in FIG. 4) and the friend candidate accepting means is provided in the fourth step. A fifth step (for example, step S107 in FIG. 4) for accepting users who are not in a friend relationship within the friend group, selected by the broker user from the broker friend list, and the friend candidate pair specifying means, A sixth step (for example, step S108 in FIG. 4) for identifying a friend candidate pair from users who are not in a friendship relationship in the friend group received in the fifth step; A seventh step (for example, step S109 in FIG. 4) for transmitting a construction request for construction of a friendship relationship to the friend candidate pair identified in step 6, and the updating means from the friend candidate pair If the response to the construction request indicates that the construction request has been approved, the friend relationship of the friend candidate pair is constructed. An eighth step (e.g., steps S110 and S111 in FIG. 4) for updating the storage means, and the incentive assigning means assigns an incentive to the intermediary user in response to the update of the relation storage means. The intermediary method including 9 steps (for example, step S112 in FIG. 4) is proposed.

Therefore, by giving incentives to mediation of friendship construction, and providing the mediator user with the order of recommending friendship construction based on the degree of contribution to service activation as a priority, the friend who is effective for the app Mediation of relationship building can be induced, and by receiving mediation from a friend, it is possible to easily establish a friendship relationship. Moreover, since it becomes easy to construct the friend relationship construction between the user's own friends, it is possible to expand the friend relationship and close the friend relationship.

(10) The present invention is a program for causing a computer to execute a mediation method in an intermediary device that mediates establishment of friendships between users within a service or between services using an application or Web, and the mediation device Is a relationship storage means for storing friend relationships between users in the service, an activity history storage means for storing user activity history contributing to service activation, a user priority assignment means, an application request receiving means, an intermediary friend A list extracting unit, a mediating friend list providing unit, a friend candidate receiving unit, a friend candidate pair specifying unit, a construction request transmitting unit, an updating unit, and an incentive providing unit, wherein the application request receiving unit A first step of receiving an application request for mediation from a mediation user who mediates construction ( For example, in step S102 in FIG. 4 and when the intermediary friend list extraction means accepts the application request, referring to the relation storage means, a friend consisting of a user who has a friendship with the intermediary user A second step (for example, step S103 in FIG. 4) for extracting an intermediary friend list in which users who are not friends in the group are associated with each other, and the user priority order assigning means refer to the activity history storage means. Te, a third step of assigning priorities to each user of the extracted the mediation friend list, the mediation friend list providing means, said a mediation friends list extracted, the each user of the intermediary friend list a fourth step of providing said the priority granted in a third step, the said intermediary user (e.g., step S104 in FIG. 4), the friend Auxiliary receiving unit, the fourth of the intermediary user from among the provided the mediation friend list is selected in step, a fifth step of accepting a user together not in a friendship in the friends group (e.g., FIG. 4 the step S107), the friend candidate pair specifying means, a sixth step of identifying the friend candidate pair from the user to each other not in the friendship in the fifth the friends group received in step (e.g., in FIG. 4 Step S108), and a seventh step (for example, Step S109 in FIG. 4) in which the construction request transmitting means transmits a construction request for establishing a friendship relationship to the friend candidate pair identified in the sixth step, If the updating means indicates that the response to the construction request from both of the friend candidate pairs indicates that the construction request has been approved, the friend As friendship complement pair is constructed, and the eighth step of updating said relationship storage means (e.g., step S110, S 111 in FIG. 4), the incentive means, the relationship storage unit is updated Accordingly, a program for causing a computer to execute a ninth step (for example, step S112 in FIG. 4) for giving an incentive to the intermediary user is proposed.

Therefore, by giving incentives to mediation of friendship construction, and providing the mediator user with the order of recommending friendship construction based on the degree of contribution to service activation as a priority, the friend who is effective for the app Mediation of relationship building can be induced, and by receiving mediation from a friend, it is possible to easily establish a friendship relationship. Moreover, since it becomes easy to construct the friend relationship construction between the user's own friends, it is possible to expand the friend relationship and close the friend relationship.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to induce the mediation of friendship construction by giving an incentive to the mediation of friendship construction, and to facilitate the construction of a friendship by receiving mediation from a friend be able to. Moreover, since it becomes easy to construct the friend relationship construction between the user's own friends, it is possible to expand the friend relationship and close the friend relationship.

It is a figure which shows the function structure of the mediation system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the mediation apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the mediation user terminal which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the mediation system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the mediation apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the mediation user terminal which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the constituent elements in the present embodiment can be appropriately replaced with existing constituent elements and the like, and various variations including combinations with other existing constituent elements are possible. Therefore, the description of the present embodiment does not limit the contents of the invention described in the claims.

<First Embodiment>
<Functional configuration of mediation system>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of an intermediary system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The mediation system 1 is a system that mediates the establishment of friendships between users within a service or between services using an application (hereinafter referred to as an application) or the Web, and includes a mediation device 10 and a user terminal 20. The Here, the service using the application is, for example, an online game that runs on the user terminal 20, and the service using the Web is, for example, Facebook that runs on the Web. Hereinafter, the case of a service using an application will be described, but the same applies to a service using a Web.

  The intermediary device 10 is a device that can mediate the establishment of a friendship within an app or between apps, and may be provided in a server that provides the app, or is connected to a server that provides the app. May be.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the user terminal 20 includes a mediating user terminal 30 and a mediated user terminal 40. The mediation user terminal 30 is a terminal of a user (hereinafter referred to as mediation user) who mediates friendship construction. On the other hand, the mediated user terminal 40 is a terminal of a user who receives mediation for establishing a friendship relationship with the mediating user. Note that there may be a plurality of intermediary user terminals 30 and intermediary user terminals 40.

<Functional configuration of mediation device>
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the mediation apparatus 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the mediation device 10 includes an application request receiving unit 110, a relationship storage unit 120, a mediation friend list extraction unit 130, an activity history storage unit 140, a user priority assignment unit 150, a mediation friend list provision unit 160, Friend candidate reception unit 170, friend candidate pair identification unit 180, construction request transmission unit 190, update unit 200, incentive provision unit 210, result transmission unit 220, history storage unit 230, mediation support user extraction unit 240, mediation request unit 250, And a mediation support user notification unit 260.

  The application request reception unit 110 receives an application request for mediation from the mediation user terminal 30 that is a mediation user terminal. The application request reception unit 110 acquires at least the user name and user ID of the application being played by the broker user together with the broker application request. You may acquire the user ID of the application which the mediation user has an account with the user name and user ID of the application which the mediation user is playing.

  The relationship storage unit 120 stores friend relationships in the application. In the relationship storage unit 120, users who are friends are stored in association with each other. For example, when the user A, the user B, and the user C are in a friend relationship, “user A: user B” “user” A: User C ”. Moreover, the relationship memory | storage part 120 memorize | stores a friend relationship for every application, when memorize | storing the friend relationship of a some application.

  The mediating friend list extraction unit 130 extracts a user who has a friendship with the mediating user from the relationship storage unit 120 in response to the application request receiving unit 110 accepting the application request, and creates a friend group of the mediating user. . Hereinafter, users included in the friend group are referred to as friend users. Then, the mediating friend list extraction unit 130 determines whether or not there is a friend relationship between the friend users included in the created friend group with reference to the relationship storage unit 120 and associates the users who are not in the friend relationship with each other. Extract the list.

  An example of extracting a mediating friend list when a friend group including friend users X, Y, and Z is created will be described. First, the intermediary friend list extraction unit 130 sequentially determines whether or not there is a friend relationship for each combination of friend users X, Y, and Z.

  When the intermediate friend list extraction unit 130 determines all the combinations of the friend users X, Y, and Z without any combination having friendship, the intermediate friend list extraction unit 130 sets “user X, Y, Z” as the intermediate friend list. include. At this time, since the friend users X and Y, the friend users X and Z, and the friend users Y and Z have no friendship, “users X and Y”, “users X and Z”, and “users Y and Z” also Include in your broker friend list.

  On the other hand, when there is a combination having a friend relationship, the intermediary friend list extraction unit 130 then determines whether there is a friend relationship for each of the friend users X and Y, the friend users X and Z, and the friend users Y and Z. Determine. If there is a combination that is determined not to have friendship, the intermediary friend list extraction unit 130 sets “user X, Z” as the intermediary friend list if the combination determined to have no friendship is the friend user X or Z. Include in

  If it is determined that the friend users X and Y, the friend users X and Z, and the friend users Y and Z have a friend relationship, the mediating friend list extraction unit 130 extracts an empty list.

  The activity history storage unit 140 stores an activity history of a user who contributes to activation of an application acquired from the application server. Specifically, the user activity history is associated with the user ID and includes the play time of the app, the number of friends, the frequency of communication with other users, the degree of participation in events held in the app, and the like. It is done.

  Based on the activity history stored in the activity history storage unit 140, the user priority order assigning unit 150 determines the priority order of each user in the mediation friend list extracted by the mediation friend list extraction unit 130, and the mediation friend list To grant. Here, the priority order is the order in which the provider providing the application wants to build a friendship.

  For example, when a business operator who provides an application wants to reduce the withdrawal rate from the application, the priority of friend users who have a small number of friends and a low communication frequency is increased. On the other hand, when it is desired to activate the use of the application, the priority order of friend users who have a large number of friends and a high communication frequency is increased. In this way, depending on the purpose of building friendships, the activity history and judgment criteria used as judgment material for determining priority can be changed.

  The mediating friend list providing unit 160 provides the mediating friend list extracted by the mediating friend list extracting unit 130 to the mediating user terminal 30. When the priority is given to the friend list by the user priority assigning unit 150, the mediating friend list providing unit 160 provides the mediating friend list with the given priority to the mediating user terminal 30. If the broker friend list extracted by the broker friend list extracting unit 130 is empty, the broker friend list providing unit 160 may provide a notification that there is no user who is not in a friend relationship instead of the broker friend list. Good.

  The friend candidate receiving unit 170 receives, from the mediation user terminal 30, a plurality of users selected by the mediation user from the mediation friend list as friend candidates.

  The friend candidate pair specifying unit 180 specifies a friend candidate pair from the friend candidates received from the mediation user terminal 30 by the friend candidate receiving unit 170. When the friend candidate is the user X, Y, or Z, the friend candidate pair specifying unit 180 displays the three friends of the user X, Y, the user X, Z, and the user Y, Z. Identify candidate pairs.

  The construction request transmission unit 190 transmits a construction request for requesting construction of a friendship with the partner to each of the friend candidate pair terminals (the mediated user terminal 40) identified by the friend candidate pair identification unit 180. The construction request transmission unit 190 may include the name and ID of the intermediary user, the intermediary history, and the like in the construction request, or may include information on the application having the partner's profile and account.

  When the update unit 200 indicates that the response to the build request from both the friend candidate pair terminals (mediated user terminal 40) to which the build request has been transmitted by the build request transmission unit 190 indicates that the build request has been approved, Judge that the brokerage was successful. On the other hand, if at least one of the responses to the construction request from the terminal of the friend candidate pair (the mediated user terminal 40) indicates that the construction request has not been approved, it is determined that the mediation has failed. Note that if the response to the construction request is not received within a predetermined time, the update unit 200 considers that a response indicating that the construction request has not been approved has been received, and determines that the mediation has failed.

  The update unit 200 updates the relationship storage unit 120 so that a friend relationship is established for a friend candidate pair that is determined to have been successfully brokered. On the other hand, since the friend relationship is not established for the friend candidate pair determined to have the mediation failure, the relationship storage unit 120 is not updated.

  The update unit 200 creates a mediation result including a mediation user, a friend candidate pair, a time when the construction request is transmitted, a construction result indicating whether the friendship construction is successful or a friendship construction failure. The friendship construction success is a case where the relationship storage unit 120 is updated, and a friendship construction failure is a case where the relationship storage unit 120 is not updated. The update unit 200 transmits the mediation result to the incentive provision unit 210 when the construction result is a successful friendship construction. On the other hand, when the construction result is a friendship construction failure, the update unit 200 transmits the mediation result to the result transmission unit 220. However, when the incentive is given to the mediation regardless of the result, the mediation result is displayed. You may transmit to the incentive provision part 210. FIG.

  The incentive granting unit 210 grants an incentive to the mediating user according to the friendship construction result included in the mediation result. The incentive granting unit 210 can also give an incentive to a friend candidate pair for which a friendship is established. When the incentive is granted, the incentive granting unit 210 includes the granted incentive or a notification that the incentive is granted in the mediation result.

  Incentives are discounted on, for example, currencies and items that can be used with the target application, points that can be converted into communication usage fees or mobile terminal purchase prices by mobile carriers, and online shopping sites operated by app providers Points that can be used in the future, tickets and discount coupons for movie theaters and leisure facilities, discount coupons for restaurants, etc.

  The result transmission unit 220 transmits the mediation result to the mediation user terminal 30. Further, the result transmission unit 220 stores the mediation result in the history storage unit 230.

  The mediation support user extraction unit 240 extracts from the relationship storage unit 120, as mediation support users, users who are friends with the mediation user and the friend candidate pair identified by the friend candidate pair identification unit 180. There may be a plurality of mediation support users.

  The mediation request unit 250 transmits an approval request for mediation support of a friend candidate pair to the mediation support user extracted by the mediation support user extraction unit 240. The approval request includes at least information on the mediator user and the friend candidate pair.

  When the mediation support user notification unit 260 receives a response indicating that the mediation support of the friend candidate pair has been approved in response to the approval request from the mediation support user, the mediation support user who has approved the mediation support becomes a friend candidate pair. Notice. After notifying the friend candidate pair of the mediation support user who has approved the mediation support, the mediation support user notification unit 260 transmits the mediation support user information to the incentive granting unit 210. Thereby, the incentive provision part 210 can provide an incentive also to a mediation support user according to the friendship construction result included in the mediation result. In this way, it is possible to easily establish a friendship by knowing that mediation is supported by other users.

  On the other hand, when the mediation support user notification unit 260 receives a response from the mediation support user that the mediation support of the friend candidate pair is not approved in response to the approval request, the mediation support user notification unit 260 does not notify the friend candidate pair of anything. Alternatively, the mediation support user may be notified to the friend candidate pair as a user who does not support mediation. By knowing that the mediation is not supported from other users, it is possible to easily determine whether or not to establish a friendship.

<Functional configuration of intermediary user terminal>
As illustrated in FIG. 3, the mediation user terminal 30 includes an application request transmission unit 310, a mediation friend list acquisition unit 320, a friend candidate transmission unit 330, and a result reception unit 340.

  The application request transmission unit 310 applies for mediating the establishment of friendship between users in response to an instruction that the user who is playing the application mediates establishment of friendship of his friend. Send an application request. In addition, when the user who is playing the application needs a friend list including all his / her friends, the application request transmission unit 310 responds to the friend's instruction to display the friend list. An application request is sent together with a list acquisition request.

  The user issues a friend list display instruction in the following cases, for example. When the purpose is achieved while cooperating with other users such as defeating enemies while playing a game application, the user gives an instruction to display a friend list when requesting cooperation from a friend. In addition, when the user wants to confirm his / her friend, the user instructs display of the friend list.

  The mediating friend list acquisition unit 320 acquires the mediating friend list from the mediating friend list providing unit 160 of the mediating apparatus 10. The acquired broker friend list is displayed on a display unit (not shown) of the broker user terminal 30.

  The friend candidate transmitting unit 330 transmits a plurality of users selected by the mediating user from the mediating friend list displayed on the display unit as friend candidates. For example, a group “X, Y, Z”, a pair “X, Y”, a pair “X, Z”, and a pair “Y, Z”, whose intermediary friend lists are friends of the intermediary user but are not friends with each other, If included, the mediating user selects a friend candidate from the four groups and pairs.

  The result receiving unit 340 receives the mediation result from the mediation device 10. From the mediation result, whether or not a friendship relationship about a friend candidate pair specified from the friend candidate transmitted by the friend candidate transmission unit 330 has been established, information on incentives given to the friend candidate, and incentives were given The intermediary user can know whether or not.

<Intermediary processing flow>
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the mediation system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. This process is performed in response to an instruction that the user who is playing the application mediates establishment of a friendship relationship of his / her friend or a friend list display instruction input to the mediation user terminal 30. Start.

  First, in step S <b> 101, the application request transmission unit 310 transmits an intermediary application request to the intermediary device 10.

  Next, in step S <b> 102, the application request receiving unit 110 receives an intermediary application request from the intermediary user terminal 30.

  Next, in step S103, the intermediary friend list extraction unit 130 refers to the relationship storage unit 120 in response to accepting the application request in step S102, and creates a friend group including intermediary user friend users. An intermediary friend list in which users who are not in a friend relationship are associated with each other is extracted from the created friend group.

  Next, in step S104, the mediating friend list providing unit 160 provides the mediating friend list extracted by the mediating friend list extracting unit 130 to the mediating user terminal 30.

  Next, in step S105, the mediating friend list acquisition unit 320 acquires the mediating friend list from the mediating friend list providing unit 160, and displays the acquired mediating friend list on the display unit.

  Next, in step S106, the friend candidate transmission unit 330 transmits a plurality of users selected by the mediating user from the mediating friend list displayed on the display unit in step S105 as friend candidates.

  Next, in step S <b> 107, the friend candidate reception unit 170 receives a friend candidate from the friend candidate transmission unit 330.

  Next, in step S108, the friend candidate pair specifying unit 180 specifies a friend candidate pair from the friend candidates received in step S107.

  Next, in step S109, the construction request transmission unit 190 transmits a construction request for requesting construction of a friendship with the partner to each friend candidate pair identified in step S108.

  Next, in step S110, the update unit 200 determines whether or not the response to the construction request from both friend candidate pairs indicates that the construction request has been approved. If the responses from both indicate that the construction request has been approved (YES), the process proceeds to step S111. On the other hand, if at least one of the responses indicates that the construction request has not been approved, the process proceeds to step S113.

  Next, in step S <b> 111, the update unit 200 updates the relationship storage unit 120 to create a mediation result so that the friend relationship of the friend candidate pair is established. Note that the update unit 200 also creates a mediation result even when the relationship storage unit 120 is not updated.

  Next, in step S112, when the relationship storage unit 120 is updated, the incentive granting unit 210 grants an incentive to the mediating user based on the mediation result, and informs the mediation result that the granted incentive or incentive has been granted. include.

  Next, in step S113, the result transmission unit 220 transmits the mediation result to the mediation user terminal 30.

  As described above, according to this embodiment, by giving an incentive to the mediation of friendship construction, the mediation of friendship construction can be induced, and the friend by receiving mediation from a friend It can make it easier to build relationships.

<Second Embodiment>
A second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In addition, the mediation apparatus in this embodiment determines the incentive given at the time of mediation establishment according to the priority of the pair who established the friendship. In addition, about the component which attaches | subjects the same code | symbol as 1st Embodiment, since it has the same function, the detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

<Functional configuration of mediation device>
As shown in FIG. 5, the mediation device 11 includes an application request reception unit 110, a relationship storage unit 120, a mediation friend list extraction unit 130, a friend candidate pair identification unit 181, an activity history storage unit 140, a pair priority order assignment unit 270, A friend candidate pair providing unit 280, a friend candidate pair receiving unit 290, a construction request transmitting unit 190, an updating unit 200, an incentive providing unit 211, a result transmitting unit 220, and a history storage unit 230 are provided.

  The friend candidate pair specifying unit 181 specifies a friend candidate pair from the mediating friend list extracted by the mediating friend list extracting unit 130.

  The pair priority order assigning unit 270 determines the priority order of the friend candidate pair specified by the friend candidate pair specifying unit 181 based on the activity history stored in the activity history storage unit 140, and the friend candidate pair and the priority order Create a friend candidate pair list in which Here, the priority order is the order in which the provider providing the application wants to build a friendship.

  For example, when a provider that provides an application wants to reduce the rate of withdrawal from the application, the priority of the pair of a user with a small number of friends and a user with a large number of friends is increased, while the use of the application is activated If the user wants to change the priority, the priority of a pair of a user who has a high communication frequency but a small number of friends and a user who has a large number of users but a low communication frequency is increased. In this way, depending on the purpose of building friendships, the activity history and judgment criteria used as judgment material for determining priority can be changed.

  The friend candidate pair providing unit 280 provides the friend candidate pair list created by the pair priority order assigning unit 270 to the mediating user terminal 30.

  The friend candidate pair receiving unit 290 receives the friend candidate pair selected by the mediating user from the mediating user terminal 30 from the friend candidate pairs included in the friend candidate pair list provided by the friend candidate pair providing unit 280.

  The incentive granting unit 211 grants an incentive to the mediating user according to the friendship construction result included in the mediation result. The incentive granting unit 211 can also give an incentive to a friend candidate pair in which a friendship is established. The incentive granting unit 211 includes incentives given to the mediating user terminal 30 and the friend candidate pair's terminal (the mediated user terminal 40) and a notification that the incentive has been granted in the mediation result.

  The incentive assigning unit 211 refers to the mediation result and determines an incentive according to the priority given by the pair priority assigning unit 270 to the friend candidate pair in which the friend relationship is established. For example, when the incentive granting unit 211 is given a ranking in advance and gives an incentive in a ranking corresponding to the priority ranking, or a point or currency in the app is used as an incentive, a preset reference Give incentives calculated by prioritizing values.

<Functional configuration of intermediary user terminal>
As illustrated in FIG. 6, the mediation user terminal 31 includes an application request transmission unit 310, a friend candidate pair acquisition unit 350, a friend candidate pair transmission unit 360, and a result reception unit 340.

  The friend candidate pair acquisition unit 350 acquires a friend candidate pair from the mediation apparatus 11 and displays the acquired friend candidate pair on a display unit (not shown).

  The friend candidate pair transmission unit 360 transmits the friend candidate pair selected by the mediation user from the friend candidate pairs displayed on the display unit to the mediation device 11.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, a friendship is established for an intermediary user by giving a priority order that is an order in which an operator providing an application wants to establish a friendship to a friend candidate pair. Can tell the friend candidate pair you want to let. In addition, by determining the incentive of the mediating user according to the priority order, the mediator of the friend candidate pair that the provider providing the application wants to establish the friendship, that is, the mediating of the friendship construction effective for the app, to the mediating user Can be triggered.

  Note that the mediation system of the present invention can be realized by recording the processing of the mediation system on a recording medium readable by the computer system, reading the mediation system recorded on the recording medium, and executing it. The computer system here includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices.

  Further, the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW (World Wide Web) system is used. The program may be transmitted from a computer system storing the program in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. Here, the “transmission medium” for transmitting the program refers to a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a communication line (communication line) such as a telephone line.

  The program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above. Furthermore, what can implement | achieve the function mentioned above in combination with the program already recorded on the computer system, and what is called a difference file (difference program) may be sufficient.

  The embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to the embodiments, and includes designs and the like that do not depart from the gist of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mediation system 10,11 Mediation apparatus 20 User terminal 30 Mediation user terminal 40 Mediated user terminal 110 Application request reception part 120 Relation storage part 130 Mediation friend list extraction part 140 Activity history storage part 150 User priority provision part 160 Mediation friend list Providing unit 170 Friend candidate receiving unit 180,181 Friend candidate pair specifying unit 190 Construction request transmitting unit 200 Updating unit 210, 211 Incentive providing unit 220 Result transmitting unit 230 History storage unit 240 Mediation support user extracting unit 250 Mediation request unit 260 Mediation support User notification unit 270 Pair priority assigning unit 280 Friend candidate pair providing unit 290 Friend candidate pair receiving unit 310 Application request transmitting unit 320 Mediating friend list acquiring unit 330 Friend candidate transmitting unit 340 Result receiving unit 350 Friend candidate pair acquiring unit 360 Friend candidate Pair transmission unit

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An intermediary device that mediates the building of friendships between users within or between services using applications and the Web,
Relationship storage means for storing friendships between users in the service;
Activity history storage means for storing a user's activity history that contributes to service activation;
From an intermediary user who mediates the construction of a friendship between the users, an application request accepting means for accepting the intermediary application request;
In response to accepting the application request, with reference to the relation storage means, an intermediary friend list that associates users who are not in friendship within a friend group consisting of users who are in friendship with the intermediary user is extracted. Mediating friend list extracting means to
User priority order assigning means for giving priority to each user of the extracted broker friend list with reference to the activity history storage means;
Wherein the mediation friends list that are extracted, and the mediation friend list providing means for providing said a priority granted by the user priority providing means to each user of the intermediary friend list, to the intermediary user,
A friend candidate accepting unit that accepts users who are not friends in the friend group selected by the mediating user from the mediating friend list;
A friend candidate pair specifying means for specifying a friend candidate pair from users who are not in a friendship within the friend group received by the friend candidate receiving means;
A construction request transmitting means for transmitting a construction request for establishing a friendship to the friend candidate pair identified by the friend candidate pair identifying means;
If the response to the construction request from both of the friend candidate pairs indicates that the construction request has been approved, updating to update the relationship storage means so that a friend relationship of the friend candidate pair is constructed Means,
Incentive granting means for granting an incentive to the intermediary user in response to the relationship storage means being updated;
An intermediary device comprising: In response to the priority given by the user priority assigning means to each user of the friend candidate pair whose relation storage means has been updated so that the friendship is established, the incentive granting means The intermediary device according to claim 1, wherein an incentive to be given is determined. The intermediary apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the friend candidate pair identification unit identifies the friend candidate pair from the extracted intermediary friend list. Pair priority order giving means for giving priority to the identified friend candidate pair with reference to the activity history storage means;
A friend candidate pair providing means for providing the friend candidate pair to which the priority is given to the intermediary user;
A friend candidate pair receiving means for receiving a friend candidate pair selected by the mediating user from the friend candidate pairs;
The mediation apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising: Incentive that the incentive granting unit grants to the intermediary user according to the priority given by the pair priority order granting unit to the friend candidate pair whose relationship storage unit has been updated so that the friendship is established The intermediary device according to claim 4, wherein the intermediary device is determined. Mediating support user extracting means for extracting the mediating user and the user who is in friendship with the friend candidate pair as mediating support user from the relation storage means;
Mediation request means for transmitting an approval request for mediation support of the friend candidate pair to the extracted mediation support user;
In response to the approval request, when the mediation support of the friend candidate pair is approved by the mediation support user, mediation support user notification means for notifying the mediation support user to the friend candidate pair;
With
The mediation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the incentive granting unit grants an incentive to the mediation support user in response to the relationship storage unit being updated. The said incentive provision means provides incentive to the friend candidate pair in which the said relationship memory | storage means was updated so that the said friend relationship might be constructed | assembled, The claim 1 characterized by the above-mentioned. Mediation device. An intermediary user terminal that mediates the construction of friendships between users within or between services using applications and the web,
Create an intermediary friend list that associates users who are not in a friendship relationship within a friend group consisting of users who are in a friendship relationship with the intermediary user, and an activity history that contributes to the activation of the service for each user of the intermediary friend list Connected to the intermediary device that gives priority according to,
An application request transmitting means for transmitting an application request for applying to establish a friendship between the users;
From the mediating apparatus, the mediating friend list acquisition means for acquiring the mediating friend list and the priority order of each user of the mediating friend list,
A friend candidate transmitting means for transmitting users who are not in a friend relationship within the friend group, selected by the broker user from the broker friend list,
A result receiving means for receiving a result of whether or not a friend relationship of a friend candidate pair specified by the mediating device is established from users who are not in a friend relationship within the friend group transmitted by the friend candidate transmitting means;
An intermediary user terminal comprising: An intermediary method in an intermediary device that mediates the establishment of friendships between users within a service or between services using an application or Web,
The intermediary device stores a relationship relationship between users within the service, a relationship storage means for storing user activity history, an activity history storage means for storing user activity history that contributes to service activation, a user priority assignment means, an application request reception means Mediating friend list extracting means, mediating friend list providing means, friend candidate accepting means, friend candidate pair specifying means, construction request transmitting means, updating means, and incentive giving means,
A first step for receiving an application request for the mediation from an intermediary user mediating the establishment of a friendship relationship between the users;
In response to the receipt of the application request by the intermediary friend list extraction means, the relation storage means is referred to and users who are not in a friendship relationship within a friend group of users who are in a friendship relationship with the intermediary user are displayed. A second step of extracting the associated broker friend list;
A third step in which the user priority order assigning means refers to the activity history storage means and assigns a priority order to each user of the extracted intermediary friend list;
A fourth step in which the mediating friend list providing means provides the mediating user with the extracted mediating friend list and the priority given to each user of the mediating friend list in the third step. When,
A fifth step in which the friend candidate accepting unit accepts users who are not in a friend relationship within the friend group, selected by the mediating user from the mediating friend list provided in the fourth step;
A sixth step in which the friend candidate pair specifying means specifies a friend candidate pair from users who are not in a friendship within the friend group received in the fifth step;
A seventh step in which the construction request transmitting means transmits a construction request for requesting construction of a friendship to the friend candidate pair identified in the sixth step;
If the update means indicates that the response to the construction request from both of the friend candidate pairs indicates that the construction request has been approved, the relationship storage is configured such that a friend relationship of the friend candidate pair is constructed. An eighth step of updating the means;
A ninth step in which the incentive granting means grants an incentive to the intermediary user in response to the relationship storage means being updated;
  Including intermediary methods. A program for causing a computer to execute an intermediary method in an intermediary device that mediates establishment of a friendship between users within a service or between services using an application or Web ,
The intermediary device stores a relationship relationship between users within the service, a relationship storage means for storing user activity history, an activity history storage means for storing user activity history that contributes to service activation, a user priority assignment means, an application request reception means Mediating friend list extracting means, mediating friend list providing means, friend candidate accepting means, friend candidate pair specifying means, construction request transmitting means, updating means, and incentive giving means,
A first step for receiving an application request for the mediation from an intermediary user mediating the establishment of a friendship relationship between the users;
In response to the receipt of the application request by the intermediary friend list extraction means, the relation storage means is referred to and users who are not in a friendship relationship within a friend group of users who are in a friendship relationship with the intermediary user are displayed. A second step of extracting the associated broker friend list;
A third step in which the user priority order assigning means refers to the activity history storage means and assigns a priority order to each user of the extracted intermediary friend list;
A fourth step of providing the mediation friend list providing means, said a mediation buddy list that is extracted, the the priority granted in the third step to the user of the intermediary friend list, to the intermediary user When,
The friend candidate reception unit, wherein the intermediary user from the fourth of the mediation friend list provided in step is selected, a fifth step of receiving each other not in the friendship user within the group of friends,
The friend candidate pair specifying means, a sixth step of identifying the friend candidate pair from the user to each other not in the friendship in the friends group received in said fifth step,
The construction request transmitting means, a seventh step of transmitting the constructed request to build friendships friend candidate pairs specified in the sixth step,
If the update means indicates that the response to the construction request from both of the friend candidate pairs indicates that the construction request has been approved, the relationship storage is configured such that a friend relationship of the friend candidate pair is constructed. An eighth step of updating the means;
A ninth step in which the incentive granting means grants an incentive to the intermediary user in response to the relationship storage means being updated;
A program that causes a computer to execute .

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