KR101368237B1 - Device and method for providing profile information - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing profile information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of providing profile information by an apparatus for providing profile information comprises: receiving, from a first terminal used by a first user, one or more profile keywords associated with the first user; Storing a profile keyword in association with the first user, receiving a request for profile information of the first user from a second terminal used by a second user associated with the first user, one to the second terminal Providing profile information of the first user including at least one profile keyword, a selection keyword of any one of the one or more profile keywords from the second terminal, and an evaluation of the selection keyword of the second user Receiving information, and storing the evaluation information in association with the selection keyword The method may further include receiving a user search request including a search word from a third terminal used by a third user, and one or more profiles stored in association with each of the search word and the plurality of users. Providing profile information of the first user to the third terminal when the profile information of the first user is searched based on a keyword, wherein the relationship information between the first user and the second user and the first information are provided. The relationship information between the second user and the third user is greater than or equal to a predetermined relationship level.

Description

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PROFILE INFORMATION {DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROFILE INFORMATION}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing profile information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing profile information based on evaluation information on a profile keyword.

As disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2007-0042044, a conventional friend making service is intended to form a network by a user who wants to form a new network, uploads his or her personal profile information, and browses other's personal information. It proceeds by searching for the other party.

However, since such personal information is exposed to others unrelated to the user, the service is likely to be misused for purposes other than the original service purpose, and the reliability of the personal information entered by each user is low. Therefore, there was a problem that it is difficult to form a reliable network with each other. In addition, there was no room for third-party involvement between the two users who were friends, so they could not get help or advice from others in the process of forming a network.

In addition, the conventional friend making service discloses the profile information including the user's personal information to others, but most of the personal information which is reluctant to be disclosed is kept private, and some information to be made public is also available to others. Including noise that is difficult to trust, there is a problem that the user's profile information does not play a role as a path for forming a relationship between users.

An object of the present invention, the profile information for receiving the user's profile keyword, and stores the input keyword as the user's profile information, receiving the evaluation information for the provided profile keyword from other users to provide profile information based on the evaluation information It is to provide a method and apparatus.

Another object of the present invention, based on the user's profile keyword and the evaluation information on the profile keyword, analyzes the reliability for each profile keyword and gives a predetermined weight, based on the profile information providing the user search and additional services It is to provide a method and apparatus.

As a technical means for achieving the above-described technical problem, the method for providing the profile information by the profile information providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, from the first terminal used by the first user, associated with the first user Receiving one or more profile keywords, storing the one or more profile keywords in association with the first user, from a second terminal used by a second user associated with the first user, profile information of the first user Receiving a request, providing profile information of the first user including one or more profile keywords to the second terminal, selecting a keyword which is one of the profile keywords of the one or more profile keywords from the second terminal; Receiving evaluation information regarding the selected keyword of the second user, and And storing the evaluation information in association with the selected keyword, wherein the profile information providing method comprises: receiving a user search request including a search word from a third terminal used by a third user, and the search word And providing profile information of the first user to the third terminal when the profile information of the first user is searched based on one or more profile keywords stored in association with each of the plurality of users. The relationship information between the user and the second user and the relationship information between the second user and the third user are greater than or equal to a preset relationship level.
The profile information providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention may provide the profile information of the first user to which the evaluation information is reflected to the second terminal.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, wherein the profile information includes display attribute information for displaying each profile keyword on the second terminal with respect to one or more profile keywords associated with the first user. can do.
In the method for providing profile information according to another embodiment of the present invention, the display attribute information may be based on evaluation information on the profile keyword.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, wherein the display attribute information includes information on a shape, size, color, and position of an object including a profile, font, size, color, position, and profile keyword of the profile keyword. Can be.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, wherein the receiving of evaluation information on the selection keyword comprises: receiving the selection keyword of any one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the second terminal. And providing the evaluation candidate information on the selected keyword to the second terminal, and receiving a response to the evaluation candidate information from the second terminal and setting the evaluation information as the evaluation information.
In the method of providing profile information according to another embodiment of the present invention, the evaluation information is given a predetermined weight according to the relationship information between the first user and the second user.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, wherein the providing of the profile information of the first user to the third terminal comprises: evaluation information on each of one or more profile keywords stored in association with each of the plurality of users; Based on the search, the searcher may search for profile information of the first user by assigning a search weight to each profile keyword, and may provide the profile information of the first user to the third terminal.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing profile information, the method comprising: searching for one or more users to provide the additional service based on planning information about the additional service and one or more profile keywords stored in association with a plurality of users; The method may further include providing the additional service to a terminal used by the searched one or more users.
In the method of providing profile information according to another embodiment of the present invention, the plan information may include plan information about one or more of employment information, advertisement information, and human network information.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, the method comprising: receiving a search word from a third party server, searching for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search word, and converting the retrieved user's profile information to the third party server. The method may further include transmitting.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, the method comprising: receiving a search word and question information from a third terminal, searching for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search word, and using the searched user to the terminal. Providing question information.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing profile information, the method comprising: receiving identification information of the first user from a third party server, and based on the identification information of the first user, a relationship between the first user and a predetermined level or more; The method may further include searching for a user having the information, and transmitting profile information of the user having relationship information equal to or greater than the predetermined level to the third party server.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, in the apparatus for providing profile information, the keyword receiving unit for receiving one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the first terminal used by the first user, the one or more profiles A keyword storage for storing a keyword in association with the first user, a profile request receiver for receiving a profile information request of the first user from a second terminal used by a second user associated with the first user, and the second A profile information providing unit for providing profile information of the first user including one or more profile keywords to a terminal, a selection keyword of any one of the one or more profile keywords from the second terminal, and a selection keyword of the second user; Evaluation information receiving unit for receiving evaluation information on the selected keyword, the evaluation An evaluation information storage unit for storing information in association with the selected keyword, and a user search request including a search word from a third terminal used by a third user, the one or more stored in association with each of the search word and a plurality of users Searching for profile information of the first user based on a profile keyword, the search providing unit configured to provide profile information of the first user to the third terminal, wherein the relationship information between the first user and the second user and Relationship information between the second user and the third user may be equal to or greater than a predetermined relationship level.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus for providing profile information may be a user in which a second user associated with the first user has relationship information equal to or greater than a predetermined level with the first user.
The profile information providing apparatus according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention may provide the profile information providing unit with the second terminal the profile information of the first user in which the evaluation information is reflected.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing profile information, wherein the profile information includes display attribute information for displaying each profile keyword on each of the one or more profile keywords associated with the first user. It may include.
In the apparatus for providing profile information according to another embodiment of the present invention, the display attribute information may be based on evaluation information on the profile keyword.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing profile information, wherein the evaluation information receiving unit receives a selection keyword of one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the second terminal, and evaluates the selection keyword. The candidate information may be provided to the second terminal, and a response to the evaluation candidate information may be received from the second terminal and set as the evaluation information.
In the apparatus for providing profile information according to another embodiment of the present invention, the evaluation information may be given a predetermined weight according to the relationship information between the first user and the second user.
The apparatus for providing profile information according to another embodiment of the present invention may search for one or more users who will provide the additional service based on the plan information about the additional service and one or more profile keywords stored in association with the plurality of users. The apparatus may further include an additional service providing unit that provides an additional service to a terminal used by the searched one or more users.

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According to an embodiment of the present invention having the above configuration, receives a user's profile keyword, stores the input keyword as the user's profile information, receives the evaluation information for the provided profile keyword from other users to the evaluation information A method and apparatus for providing profile information for providing based profile information may be provided.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, based on the user's profile keyword and the evaluation information on the profile keyword, analyzes the reliability for each profile keyword and gives a predetermined weight, based on the user search and provide additional services A method and an apparatus for providing profile information may be provided.

1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a profile information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an apparatus for providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3, 4A and 4B are diagrams illustrating examples of a method for providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without departing from the other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a profile information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Profile information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a user terminal 100 connected to the network (N), a profile information providing apparatus 200 and a third party server (300).

The network N may be a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a value added network (VAN), a personal area network (PAN) a mobile radio communication network, or a satellite communication network.

The user terminal 100 may be implemented as a computer, a portable terminal, a television, or the like, which can be connected to a remote server through the network N or to be connected to other terminals and servers. Here, the computer includes, for example, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and the like, each of which is equipped with a web browser (WEB Browser), and the portable terminal may be a wireless communication device , Personal Communication System (PCS), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) Handheld based wireless communication devices such as W-CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) -2000, W-CDMA (W-CDMA), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet) terminals, can do. In addition, the television may include an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), an Internet Television (Internet Television), a terrestrial TV, a cable TV, or the like.

The user terminal 100 may transmit and receive predetermined data through a network connection with the profile information providing apparatus 200 which will be described later, and according to the user's performance role, the first terminal 110, the second terminal 120, and the first terminal 110. 3 terminals 130 may be classified.

The first terminal 110 may transmit one or more profile keywords associated with the first user to the profile information providing device. The first terminal 110 may be a terminal used by the first user, but is not limited to the terminal of the first user. The first terminal 110 may provide predetermined relationship information with the first user who may input a profile keyword associated with the first user. It may be a terminal of another user having.

The second terminal 120 requests the profile information providing device for the first user's profile information to read the profile information of the first user, and transmits evaluation information on the profile keyword of the first user to the profile information providing device. Can be.

The third terminal 130 may transmit a user search request including a search word to a profile information providing device to search for a predetermined user among a plurality of users, and receive one or more users searched from the profile information providing device. have.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the first terminal 110, the second terminal 120, and the third terminal 130 may perform the above-described operations, but the roles of the terminals may be changed, The roles of the first terminal 110, the second terminal 120, and the third terminal 130 may be changed to perform all the operations described above.

The profile information providing apparatus 200 may receive and store a user's profile keyword from the user terminal 100, and receive and store evaluation information on the selected keyword among the profile keywords from the user terminal 100. In addition, the profile information providing apparatus 200 may provide the user terminal 100 with profile information reflecting the evaluation information on the profile keyword, and provide a predetermined search result in response to a search request of the user terminal 100. For example, an additional service such as employment information, advertisement information, and human network information may be provided to a user who meets a predetermined condition.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an apparatus for providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are views illustrating an example of a method for providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Profile information providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a keyword receiving unit 210, keyword storage unit 220, profile request receiving unit 230, profile information providing unit 240, evaluation information receiving unit 250 The evaluation information storage unit 260 and the additional service provider 270 may be included.

The keyword receiving unit 210 receives one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the first terminal 110.

Here, the profile keyword may include a predetermined word, a sentence, etc. that may represent the first user, and may be input by the first user or have a predetermined relationship with the first user, for example, a second user who has a friend relationship. Can be input from

Referring to the example of FIG. 3, for example, the profile information of the first user, “SIMPLE DEVIL,” is “universal”, “caring man”, “natural bone cool”, “loving boy”, “lover”, “ Restaurant ", where" all-around "," caring man "," natural bone cool ", and" teacher "are profile keywords (31) input by the first user, and" lovers "and" restaurants. " Is, for example, a profile keyword 33 associated with a first user input by a second user who is a friend of the first user. That is, a profile keyword associated with the first user may be received from the first user himself or from a second user associated with the first user.

The keyword receiving unit 210 may receive a profile keyword associated with the first user from the first terminal through, for example, a chat service. For example, if a first user who is a user of the first terminal communicates with the second user who is a user of the second terminal, for example, via a messenger, the second user delivers a keyword to the first user. 210 may receive the keyword as a profile keyword associated with the first user. The second user may directly set a part of the chat message as a profile keyword of the first user according to a predetermined protocol, and as another example, the profile information providing apparatus 200 may semanticly describe the chat contents of the second user and the first user. By semantic analysis, a predetermined keyword that can express the first user may be extracted and classified into profile keywords associated with the first user. The keyword receiving unit 210 may provide convenience to a user by receiving a profile keyword through a chat, a messenger, or the like as described above, and may have an advantage of naturally extracting a profile keyword that can express the user.

The keyword storage unit 220 stores one or more profile keywords received from the first terminal 110 in association with the first user.

The keyword storage unit 220 may store, for example, a profile keyword in a database (not shown) connected to the profile information providing apparatus 200. For example, the keyword storage unit 220 stores identification information of the first user in association with the profile keyword. Can be. Here, the identification information of the first user means identification information capable of identifying the first user and another user, such as an ID (identifier), a mobile phone number, and a social security number of the first user.

The profile request receiver 230 receives a profile information request of the first user from the second terminal 120.

Here, the second terminal 200 may be a terminal of the second user, or may be a terminal of the first user who wants to read his or her profile information.

The profile information provider 240 provides the second terminal 120 with profile information of the first user including one or more profile keywords associated with the first user.

In addition, the profile information provider 240 may provide the second terminal 120 with profile information of the first user in which evaluation information about one or more profile keywords associated with the first user is reflected.

The profile information may include display attribute information for displaying each profile keyword on the user terminal for each of the one or more profile keywords, and the display attribute information may include font, size, color, position, and profile keyword of the profile keyword. It may include information about the shape, size, color, location of the object including.

For example, referring to FIG. 3, an object having a shape different from a profile keyword 31 directly input by the first user “SIMPLE DEVIL” and a profile keyword 33 input by other users by evaluating the first user It is included and displayed. Here, the shape of the object may be one display attribute information provided by distinguishing an input subject of the profile keyword.

In addition, the display attribute information may be set based on the evaluation information on the profile keyword.

For example, referring to FIG. 3, of the six profile keywords associated with the first user, “SIMPLE DEVIL,” “universal” and “lovers” are relative to “smart men” and “restaurants” based on evaluation information. Are displayed largely, and the "natural bone cool" and "twitch" are displayed in the smallest size. As such, the display attribute information of the profile keyword may vary according to evaluation information about profile keywords of other users who view the profile information of the first user. For example, the profile keywords "universal" and "lovers" may represent a first user by other users, and may be a profile keyword that has been agreed and acknowledged. As a keyword that expresses characteristics well, for example, the keyword can be used as a target advertisement to a first user, a matching service with another user, or the like.

In addition, as illustrated in FIG. 4A, the profile information provider 240 may classify and provide one or more profile keywords associated with the first user by category. When the profile information providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided to a dating service, for example, “I am such a single” or “I like this”, the user may express a single user. Various categories may be used to provide profile information.

The evaluation information receiver 250 receives, from the second terminal 120, a selection keyword which is one of the one or more profile keywords, and evaluation information about the selection keyword of the second user associated with the first user.

The evaluation information refers to predetermined information in which a user other than the first user evaluates the profile keyword of the first user, and the selection keyword is any one of a plurality of profile keywords that the other user wants to evaluate. Means the keyword.

For example, referring to FIG. 4B, another user who has a close relationship with the first user determines that the keyword “sul ~” is a keyword expressing the first user well among profile keywords of the first user. Evaluation information can be entered. At this time, the profile information providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide an evaluation information input window so that the user can conveniently input the evaluation information, and the evaluation information input window may be, for example, illustrated in FIG. 4B. It may be provided as follows. However, the evaluation information input window is an example in which the user may input evaluation information, and the evaluation information receiver 250 may receive evaluation information in various ways.

The evaluation information receiver 250 receives a selection keyword of any one or more profile keywords from the second terminal 120, provides evaluation candidate information on the selection keyword to the second terminal 120, and provides a second terminal ( 120, the response to the evaluation candidate information may be received and set as the evaluation information. As described above, the evaluation information receiver 250 may provide an evaluation information input window 45, and the evaluation information input window 45 may include evaluation candidate information 46. Here, the evaluation candidate information 46 may be, for example, information about “positive” or “negative” for the selected keyword, or may be an option including a rating of positive or negative for the selected keyword.

The evaluation information receiver 250 may receive evaluation information from a second user associated with the first user, where the relationship information between the first user and the second user may be limited to a predetermined level or more.

For example, only the user who is in a friend relationship with the first user may be allowed to evaluate the first user's profile keyword, and the user who is not in the friend relationship with the first user may not be allowed to evaluate the profile keyword. In this way, the evaluation information receiver 250 may receive evaluation information from a user who knows the first user well, thereby improving the reliability of the user's profile information.

As such, the evaluation information may be given a predetermined weight according to the relationship information between the first user and the second user among users who have a predetermined relationship with the first user.

For example, among a plurality of users whose relationship information is “friend relationship”, the evaluation information of a user having, for example, a “friendship” rating is weighted higher than the evaluation information of another user among the plurality of users whose relationship information is “friend relationship”. Can be given.

The evaluation information storage unit 260 stores evaluation information of another user regarding the first user in association with the selection keyword.

Referring to FIG. 4B, the evaluation information storage unit 260 may associate the selection keyword “sul ~” with evaluation information, for example, “That's right!” In a database (not shown). In this case, “it is perfect!” May be converted and stored as, for example, “+1”, and based on the evaluation information previously stored in the database (not shown) and newly received evaluation information in relation to “sake ~”. The evaluation information can be updated.

The additional service provider 270 searches for one or more users to provide the additional service based on the plan information about the additional service and one or more profile keywords stored in association with the plurality of users, and searches for the additional service to the one or more users found. Can provide.

Here, the planning information may include planning information about one or more of employment information, advertisement information, and human network information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the profile information providing apparatus 200, for example, based on the profile keyword associated with the user, for example, to the user who is interested in hiking, for example, advertising information about hiking, climbing clothes, etc. Will be able to provide

Profile information providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a search provider (not shown).

The search provider (not shown) receives a user search request including a search word from the third terminal 130, searches for one or more users based on one or more profile keywords and search terms stored in association with the plurality of users, The searched one or more users may be provided to the third terminal 130.

For example, a user of the third terminal 130 may make a search request for “soccer” as a search word in order to search for the reason for liking “football” which is his hobby. In this case, the search provider may search for a plurality of users including “soccer” as a profile keyword and provide the same to the third terminal 130. Here, the search method based on the search word and the profile keyword may be based on whether the search word and the profile keyword match, but in addition, various search methods, such as expansion of a similar word and thesaurus, may be considered.

The search provider (not shown) may assign a search weight to each profile keyword based on the evaluation information on each of the one or more profile keywords.

For example, the search provider may assign a high weight to a profile keyword that receives a lot of “positives,” for example, from another user among the user's profile keywords according to the evaluation information on the profile keyword. For example, among a plurality of users including the search term “soccer” as a profile keyword, a user having a high evaluation information may be searched as a priority.

Profile information providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a question service provider (not shown).

The question service provider (not shown) may receive search terms and question information from the third terminal 130, search for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search word, and provide question information to the searched user.

For example, a user who wants to ask a question about a coffee shop in Sinsa-dong Garosu-gil would like to search for the words "Sinsa-dong", "Garosu-gil", "Coffee Shop" and "Recommend a cappuccino-flavored house on Garosu-gil". May be transmitted to the profile information providing apparatus 200 using the third terminal 130. The profile information providing apparatus 200 may search for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search word, and provide the question information to a user having a profile keyword such as “a roadway” or “coffee”.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the profile information providing apparatus 200 is interoperable with the third party server 300.

The third party server 300 may be an e-mail server or a separate social network service server operated by the profile information providing apparatus 200 and another operating entity. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the profile information providing apparatus 200 may be linked with the third party server 300 using an open API (Application Programming Interface) provided by the third party server 300. In addition, the profile information providing apparatus 200 may provide a predetermined API to the third party server 300 to interoperate with each other. For example, when a member of the third party server 300 subscribes to an online service provided by the profile information providing apparatus 200 using member authentication information registered in the third party server 300, the third party server 300 The profile information providing apparatus 200 may be linked with the third party server 300 in various service provision steps from the authentication procedure, such as using the member information registered in the profile information providing apparatus 200.

The apparatus 200 for providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention may receive a search word from the third party server 300, search for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search word, and search the searched user for a third party server 300. ) Can be sent.

Here, the search term is related to the user's profile keyword stored in the profile information providing apparatus 200, and may be utilized as an element for utilizing the user's profile keyword stored in the profile information providing apparatus 200 in the third party server 300. have. For example, in the case of a third-party server 300 that provides a Q & A service, it is better to provide an interface to provide a question to a trusted person and to receive an answer, rather than to send and receive questions and answers between unspecified public. Can be effective. In this case, the third party server 300 providing the Q & A service transmits a search word associated with a specific question to the profile information providing device 200, and has a profile keyword associated with the search word from the profile information providing device 200. You will be provided with the appropriate answer to your specific question. The third party server 300 providing the Q & A service may also transmit the search word and the question information to the profile information providing device 200. In this case, the profile information providing device 200 may provide the profile information providing device associated with the corresponding search word. Question information may be directly provided to the user within 200.

For more specific example, the profile information providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention may manage profile keywords for each user, and reliability of the profile keywords by using evaluation information of other users on the corresponding profile keywords. Can be secured. For example, user A, a patent attorney, may register, for example, “soccer”, “patent attorney”, “patent”, “handsome guy”, and the like as his profile keyword. In addition, user A's acquaintances evaluate the "patent attorney", "patent", and so on, the "patent attorney" keyword among the user A's profile keywords may have a high evaluation score. At this time, if the user who wants to use the Q & A service through the third party server 300 wants to apply for a patent for a product invented by him, the profile information providing apparatus 200 has a high “patent”, “patent attorney” or the like. You can choose a user A who has been rated as a candidate for answer and ask a question.

Profile information providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention receives the identification information of the first user from the third-party server 300, based on the received identification information, the relationship between the first user and a predetermined level or more Search for a user with information. In addition, the profile information providing apparatus 200 may transmit the searched user to the third party server 300.

Here, the identification information of the first user may be identification information in the profile information providing apparatus 200 of the first user, or may be identification information in the third party server 300 of the first user, and the profile information providing apparatus 200 may be described. ) And third party servers 300 may be identification information commonly used. The user identification information may include predetermined information for identifying the user with other users, and may include, for example, an ID of the user and terminal identification information.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing profile information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The method for providing profile information according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 5 includes steps that are processed in time series in the apparatus for providing profile information shown in FIG. 2. Therefore, even if omitted below, the above description of the apparatus for providing profile information shown in FIG. 2 may be applied to the method for providing profile information according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 5.

In relation to this, the apparatus for providing profile information receives one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the first terminal (S5100).

The apparatus for providing profile information stores one or more profile keywords in association with the first user (S5200).

The apparatus for providing profile information receives a profile information request of a first user from a second terminal (S5300).

The apparatus for providing profile information provides profile information of a first user including one or more profile keywords to the second terminal (S5400).

The apparatus for providing profile information receives, from the second terminal, a selection keyword which is one of the profile keywords among one or more profile keywords and evaluation information about the selection keyword of the second user associated with the first user (S5500).

The profile information providing apparatus stores the evaluation information in association with the selection keyword (S5600).

The method for providing profile information according to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 5 may also be implemented in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as a program module executed by the computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

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In the method of providing the profile information, the profile information providing apparatus,
Receiving, from a first terminal used by a first user, one or more profile keywords associated with the first user;
Storing the one or more profile keywords in association with the first user;
Receiving a request for profile information of the first user from a second terminal used by a second user associated with the first user;
Providing profile information of the first user including one or more profile keywords to the second terminal;
Receiving a selection keyword which is one of the profile keywords among the one or more profile keywords and evaluation information about the selection keyword of the second user from the second terminal; And
Storing the evaluation information in association with the selected keyword,
The profile information providing method,
Receiving a user search request including a search word from a third terminal used by a third user; And
The method may further include providing profile information of the first user to the third terminal when the profile information of the first user is searched based on the search word and one or more profile keywords stored in association with each of the plurality of users.
And the relationship information between the first user and the second user and the relationship information between the second user and the third user are equal to or more than a preset relationship level.
delete The method of claim 1,
And providing the profile information of the first user to which the evaluation information is reflected, to the second terminal.
The method of claim 1,
And the profile information comprises display attribute information for displaying each profile keyword on the second terminal, for one or more profile keywords associated with the first user.
5. The method of claim 4,
And the display attribute information is based on evaluation information on a profile keyword.
5. The method of claim 4,
The display attribute information includes information on the shape, size, color, and position of an object including a profile, font, size, color, position, and profile keyword.
The method of claim 1,
Receiving evaluation information on the selected keyword,
Receiving a selection keyword of any one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the second terminal;
Providing evaluation candidate information on the selected keyword to the second terminal; And
Receiving the response to the evaluation candidate information from the second terminal and setting the evaluation information as the profile information providing method.
The method of claim 1,
The evaluation information includes:
And a predetermined weight is given according to the relationship information between the first user and the second user.
delete The method of claim 1,
Providing the profile information of the first user to the third terminal,
Searching for profile information of the first user by assigning a search weight to each profile keyword based on evaluation information on each of the one or more profile keywords stored in association with each of the plurality of users, the profile information of the first user; And providing the third terminal to the third terminal.
The method of claim 1,
Searching for one or more users who will provide the additional service based on the plan information for the additional service and one or more profile keywords stored in association with the plurality of users; And
And providing the additional service to a terminal used by the searched one or more users.
The method of claim 11,
And the plan information includes plan information about one or more of employment information, advertisement information, and human network information.
delete The method of claim 1,
Receiving a search word from a third party server;
Searching for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search term; And
And transmitting the retrieved user's profile information to the third party server.
The method of claim 1,
Receiving a search word and question information from a third terminal;
Searching for a user having a profile keyword associated with the search term; And
And providing the question information to a terminal used by the searched user.
The method of claim 1,
Receiving identification information of the first user from a third party server;
Searching for a user having relationship information of a predetermined level or more with the first user based on the identification information of the first user; And
And transmitting profile information of a user having relationship information equal to or higher than the predetermined level to the third party server.
In the device for providing profile information,
A keyword receiving unit which receives one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from a first terminal used by a first user;
A keyword storage unit for storing the one or more profile keywords in association with the first user;
A profile request receiver configured to receive a profile information request of the first user from a second terminal used by a second user associated with the first user;
A profile information provider for providing profile information of the first user including one or more profile keywords to the second terminal;
An evaluation information receiver configured to receive a selection keyword which is one of the profile keywords among the one or more profile keywords and evaluation information about the selection keyword of the second user from the second terminal;
An evaluation information storage unit for storing the evaluation information in association with the selected keyword; And
Receiving a user search request including a search word from a third terminal used by a third user and searching for profile information of the first user based on the search word and one or more profile keywords stored in association with each of the plurality of users, A search providing unit configured to provide profile information of a first user to the third terminal;
And the relationship information between the first user and the second user and the relationship information between the second user and the third user are equal to or more than a preset relationship level.
The method of claim 17,
A second user associated with the first user is
And a user having relationship information equal to or greater than a predetermined level of the first user.
The method of claim 17,
The profile information providing unit,
Apparatus for providing profile information of the first user reflecting the evaluation information to the second terminal.
The method of claim 17,
And the profile information includes display attribute information for displaying each profile keyword on each of the one or more profile keywords associated with the first user on the second terminal.
21. The method of claim 20,
And the display attribute information is based on evaluation information on a profile keyword.
The method of claim 17,
The evaluation information receiver,
Receiving a selection keyword of any one or more profile keywords associated with the first user from the second terminal, providing evaluation candidate information for the selection keyword to the second terminal, and receiving the evaluation candidate from the second terminal And receiving a response to the information and setting the evaluation information as the evaluation information.
The method of claim 17,
The evaluation information includes:
And a predetermined weight is given according to the relationship information between the first user and the second user.
The method of claim 17,
Search for one or more users who will provide the additional service based on planning information about the additional service and one or more profile keywords stored in association with a plurality of users, and provide the additional service to a terminal used by the searched one or more users. Further comprising a supplementary service providing unit, Profile information providing apparatus.

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