KR101478783B1 - Closed type social network service method using product and system of the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a closed social network service system and a method thereof, which are constructed automatically by means of objects.
The system of the present invention comprises: a media interface as an object; A medium attached to the media interface and storing identifier information of the group SNS page; A first user device for uploading a message to the SNS page using the identifier information of the medium; A second user device having means for obtaining the identifier information in proximity to the medium and receiving the message in the group SNS page; And a service server for providing an account page matched with the identifier information; .
When the second user device acquires the identifier information, the service server automatically accesses the SNS page set in advance.

Description

[0001] CLOSED TYPE SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE METHOD USING PRODUCT AND SYSTEM OF THE SAME [0002]

The present invention relates to social network services, and more particularly to methods and systems for providing and using closed social network services.

A person engages in social activities while making a relationship. The relationship between people who meet in person or exchange letters is showing remarkable changes due to the development of science and technology. Communications and Internet technologies have opened the online world, but they usually focused on searching, producing, distributing, or interacting with information. People began to make connections in the online world via email or through blogs and Internet cafes.

However, social network service (SNS) was the beginning of the shift of the center of gravity from large scale offline to online relationship. Typically, there are Facebook ^™ and Twitter ^™ . And mobile messenger has started to do that. Relationships can be created in real time on-line and communicated in real time. And it has developed into a huge new industry. Korean Patent No. 1091349, for example, has proposed a method of disseminating information and reviews of free-to-air goods through the web and SNS. It is possible to maximize the public relations effect by obtaining product information using QR code and spreading it widely through SNS.

The backdrop of these social networks was the introduction of incredibly fast smartphones and small tablet PCs. In the hands of many people there was a small computer, and the software that runs the SNS was run in real time on that computer. Through their smart devices, people can listen to their friends in real time, from anywhere, anytime, send messages to friends and have conversations.

But too many social networks have had side effects and inconveniences. "Friend" has increased too much. The characteristics of friends were not properly considered. There was a big gap between friends online and friends offline. People were cheerful at first, but they felt emptiness. One can find pleasure online, but the place where he lives is offline. Because his existence is offline, and offline relationships are much more closed than online relationships (one-to-one relationship only), the flood of online relationships is often pointed out as a side effect of SNS.

Nevertheless, there is no known system in which any activity or event mediated through offline social relationships is integrated into an online social network. And no system has been known in which offline activities or events that happen between friends are networked with online friendships to the same extent. Conventional social networking has no intermediary point between offline and online. Offline was offline, and online was online.

The inventor of the present invention has made a long effort to solve the above problems and propose a new approach.

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a new social network service method in which online social networking is configured around an event occurring in an offline environment.

Another object of the present invention is to automatically construct a closed SNS in offline by considering the characteristics of a closed offline friend relationship.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method and system for synchronizing offline celebration events in an offline social network, since the various events occurring in the offline friendship are not always performed among friends but are related to some happy, have. Such things include birthdays, marriages, births, birthdays, admission, graduation, practice, family parties, and promotion.

On the other hand, other unspecified purposes of the present invention will be further considered within the scope of the following detailed description and easily deduced from the effects thereof.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a first aspect of the present invention is a closed social network service system mediated by goods:

A media interface as an object;

A medium attached to the media interface and storing identifier information of a group SNS page;

A first user device for uploading a message to the SNS page using the identifier information of the medium;

A second user device having means for obtaining the identifier information in proximity to the medium and receiving the message in the SNS page; And

A service server for providing an account page matched with the identifier information; / RTI >

When the second user device acquires the identifier information, the service server automatically accesses the SNS page (including a message, an image or a moving image registered in advance by the first user device) set in advance by the service server .

In a closed object-based social network service system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the medium is a short-range wireless communication tag,

The means for acquiring the identifier information of the user device may be a short-range wireless communication system.

In addition, according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a closed object-based social network service system,

The medium is a bar code,

The means for obtaining the identifier information of the user device may be to acquire an image of the bar code by a camera module.

Further, in a closed-type social network service system mediated by a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the SNS page may be configured such that the first user device executes with the second user device, May be an SNS page for a celebration event to notify the second user device.

A second aspect of the present invention is a closed-type social network service method through an object, comprising:

A closed social network service method in which a purchase event occurs for an article with a medium storing identifier information of a group SNS page,

(a) the first user device accesses the SNS page using the identifier information of the SNS page and uploads the content;

(b) acquiring the identifier information in proximity to the medium of the article to which the second user device is shipped;

(c) automatically accessing the SNS page when the second user device acquires the identifier information (- browsing contents previously registered by the first user device).

Further, in a closed-type social network service method mediated by a commodity according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the medium is a short-range wireless communication tag,

The means for acquiring the identifier information of the user device may be a short-range wireless communication system.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a closed-type social network service through an article, the medium being a barcode,

The means for obtaining the identifier information of the user device may be to acquire an image of the bar code by a camera module.

Further, in a closed-type social network service method through a goods-related object according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the SNS page may be configured such that the first user device executes with the second user device, Is an SNS page for a celebration event to notify the second user device.

According to the system and method of the present invention, it is possible to provide a closed social network service on-line around an event occurring in the off-line.

Therefore, the characteristics of offline friendships can be effectively organized online, which has the advantage of being automatically networked at the most aggressive and most convenient way.

The various events that take place in friendships offline are not always happening among friends, but they relate to some happy, joyful and happy things. The present invention utilizes an active system called " celebration event " to characterize such offline friendships. In addition, since the celebration event is mediated by "goods", the user can automatically recognize a certain item (medium) of the product by wirelessly recognizing the item with his smartphone in a non-contact manner or by capturing it with a camera, Sending / receiving of the message, and sending / receiving of the message can be performed.

On the other hand, even if the effects are not explicitly mentioned here, the effect described in the following specification, which is expected by the technical features of the present invention, and its potential effects are treated as described in the specification of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an overall system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.
2 is a diagram conceptually showing how networking is performed using the identification mark of a medium according to the present invention.
Figure 3 is a schematic representation of an overall process configuration of a method according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a scenario configuration diagram applied to a birthday celebration event using the process of FIG. 3. FIG.
? It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may obscure the subject matter of the present invention.

 1 is a view conceptually showing a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system includes the object 100. Then, the social network of online (including mobile network) is established through this object. The social network utilizes the networking platform provided by the service server 300, and the user devices 210 and 220 have the status of the subscribers of this social network.

Generally, in a social network, subscribers can create their own closed pages using their own accounts. This is generated by the subscriber himself. A subscriber can create his or her own closed SNS page by creating a "group page" on an SNS platform, such as Facebook, or by creating a "group chat room" on a mobile messaging platform such as KakaoTalk. In the present invention, the service server 300 may generate a similar SNS page. However, the subscriber does not know the existence of this SNS page yet. Therefore, it is possible to provide certain subscribers with the identifier information that can access the SNS page, and allow the subscriber who obtained the identifier information to access the corresponding SNS page, thereby activating the SNS page.

From a user interface or application function perspective, it can be understood as shown in FIG. The user executes a series of events through the user screen 250 as a subscriber of a certain social network platform. In the user screen 250, an account page determined by the software provided by the service provider will be displayed. This is the basic configuration. Here, the user may create a group page or open a group chat room. However, in the present invention, such generation / opening event can be executed using the identifier information 151. [ 2 may be a configuration module of application software. It may be understood that the additional configuration (group page) is added to the account page thereof by acquiring the identifier information 151, although the basic configuration is determined.

When the user acquires the identifier information using his / her device, the SNS page 251 of the present invention is created as a group page (when acquiring the identifier information for the first time) Can be connected.

As described above, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, whether or not the SNS page belongs to the " group " can be determined according to whether the subscriber obtains the preset identifier information. If the identifier information can not be acquired, the SNS page can not be accessed, and thus, it has the nature of closed SNS. Hereinafter, how the subscriber obtains the identifier information will be described in detail.

The service server 200 establishes a system and a goods provider (not shown) that sells or provides the goods 100. The article provider may attach a medium storing identifier information to the article 100 (including the package of the article) (in this specification, attaching the medium to an article includes the concept of printing the medium on the article) This identifier information is delivered to the goods provider in advance by the service server 200. The identifier information is acquired by the subscriber (user device).

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, when the user device 210 (the first user device) purchases an object, the medium 110 attached to the object 100 is acquired using the built-in camera module , It is possible to acquire the identifier information stored in the medium 110 here. In this case, the medium 110 may be a barcode. More preferably, the medium 110 may be a known two-dimensional bar code, in particular a QR code. When the user device 210 obtains the barcode image close to the medium 110 and obtains the desired identifier information using the barcode-dedicated software installed in the user device 210, the predefined SNS page It automatically connects to the group page created or created by the group page. &Quot; Automatic " is an expression that includes intervention of any sequential event, as well as access to the corresponding SNS page upon acquisition of the barcode image corresponding to media 110. For example, a message asking whether or not to connect. The same shall apply hereinafter.

In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the medium 110 may be an RFID tag, more preferably an NFC tag capable of communicating with a smart phone in a non-contact manner by a near field communication method. This tag is attached to the object 100 and the user device 210 can acquire the identifier information stored in the tag 110 in proximity to the medium 110 by the wireless communication method.

In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first user device 210 may be plural. It is not limited to direct relationships with nearby objects. A user device can transmit a barcode image obtained by a communication method such as an SNS message, a mobile instant message, a note message, an e-mail, etc. to another user device, and then another user device can access the SNS page.

Thus, a plurality of user devices can be " friends " of the closed SNS system of the present invention. Preferably, the SNS page 251 is accessed using the identifier information 151 and becomes a "friend" belonging to the group page (SNS page). Friend relationship users other than the user who purchased the item are referred to as a third user device.

On the other hand, in the system of the present invention, the SNS page 251 can be optimized to a service in which a user gives a congratulatory event to another user, and the object 100 can be a means of celebrating or celebrating an event to celebrate. This can be a gift or an invitation. The scope of protection of the present invention is not limited by the type and the kind of the object.

As a celebration event to which the system and process of the present invention is applied, there are birthday, marriage, birth, birthday, entrance, graduation, practice, family party, promotion. The celebration event can be done online by uploading the celebration event contents. For example, text (such as a congratulatory message), an image, and a moving picture can be uploaded to the SNS page 251. And, as described above, the object 100 related to the celebration event serves as an intermediary for accessing the SNS page on-line where the celebration event contents are uploaded.

That is, the second user device 220 can automatically connect to the above-described SNS page 251 by acquiring the identifier information stored in the medium 110 of the article 100 delivered to the second user device 220. [

FIG. 3 shows an example of an overall process of a social network service method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The service server that provides the SNS of the present invention and the goods provider who sells the goods establish the system in advance. For example, a medium storing identifier information is attached to an object (S100).

Next, a purchase event for the article to which the medium is attached is generated (S110). When the step S110 is performed, the offline delivery process will be performed separately from the process of FIG. 3 below.

The first user device accesses the SNS page using the identifier information of the medium (S120). As described above, the medium may be a barcode or an NFC tag. By bringing the device closer to the medium, it automatically connects to the SNS page.

The first user device may be plural. As described above, all the first user devices do not acquire the identifier information by approaching the device to the medium attached to the object. The identifier information can be acquired through communication with another user device. Alternatively, when ordering an item through online, the identifier information can be acquired through communication from the seller. Therefore, step S120 is arbitrary. A plurality of first user devices may be understood as follows. The first user device can be classified into the user who purchased the object, and the terminal of other users who have not purchased the object, the third user device.

In any case, the first user device acquires the identifier information to access the SNS page, which is a closed group page, and uploads the celebration event content for each user individually in this SNS page (S130).

In a separate delivery procedure, the user of the second user device receives the order of the user of the first user device. Then, the second user device acquires the identifier information close to the medium displayed on the delivered article (S140). By acquiring the identifier information, the device can automatically access the SNS page automatically (S150). Then, the contents of the celebration event uploaded by the first user devices are browsed (S160).

FIG. 4 shows an example of a scenario in which the process of FIG. 3 is applied to the bakery market. The present invention can have various scenarios with regard to celebration wreaths, flower basket wedding invitations, and the like.

A system between a service provider and a bakery (e.g., a franchise bakery) will be established (S1). The bakery may have multiple barcodes or NFC tags. And preferably these barcode or NFC tags are attached to the wrapper of the cake. As described above, these barcodes or NFC tags function as a medium and have identifier information capable of accessing the SNS page.

Next, a purchase event occurs in which the user 1 purchases a celebration cake in the bakery. At this time, the device can acquire the SNS page connection identifier information by approaching the bar code or the NFC tag (S2).

The identifier information can be acquired in step S2 and can be acquired by the communication means. Then, a plurality of user devices access the SNS page using the identifier information, which is automatically registered as a friend relationship belonging to the group. These "friends" upload the celebration event content to the SNS page (S3). Uploading a congratulatory message, and may include images and video content.

On the other hand, in the off-line, the celebration cake as a target of the purchase event is delivered to the user 2 as a gift (S4).

The user 2 acquires the identifier information by approaching the device on the medium marked on the cake packaging (S5), and automatically accesses the SNS page to browse the contents uploaded by the friends (S6).

User 2 can also upload, write, read, and chat content as a subscriber to the SNS (S7). In particular, from the point of view of a chat event, the service server may have the meaning of automatically creating a group chat room account to subscribers.

On the other hand, since the celebration event is timeless and usually has a limited time range, the semantic of the group SNS page of the grouping of the present invention becomes lower over time. But congratulations can be recorded as memories. In this case, it is possible to store the information in another medium. It may also be used continuously. You can also unsubscribe or delete a group account.

(1) The user device of the present invention refers to a smart device, preferably a smart phone and a tablet PC. More preferably, it is a smartphone.

(2) The group SNS page of the present invention refers to a page in which a plurality of subscribers are formed into a single group in addition to various pages of an SNS platform. Basically, the service server provides an SNS page that matches the identifier information. Preferably, the advertisement content of the related article provider may be added to the corresponding group SNS page.

(3) The identifier information includes URL information accessible to the SNS page.

The scope of protection of the present invention is not limited to the description and the expression of the embodiments explicitly described in the foregoing. It is again to be understood that the scope of protection of the present invention can not be limited by obvious alterations or permutations of the present invention.

Claims (8)

A media interface as an object;
A medium attached to the media interface and storing identifier information for creating or accessing a group SNS page;
A first user device for purchasing the object, the first user device creating the group SNS page using the identifier information of the medium and uploading the message to the group SNS page;
A second user device having means for acquiring the identifier information in proximity to the medium, the user device being delivered with the article purchased by the first user device;
A third user device accessing the group SNS page using the identifier information transmitted by the first user device and uploading a message to the group SNS page; And
A service server for providing a group SNS page matched with the identifier information; / RTI >
When the second user device acquires the identifier information, automatically connects to the group SNS page set by the service server in advance, and receives a message uploaded by the first user device and the third user device A closed, social network service system based on goods. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the medium is a short range wireless communication tag,
Wherein the means for acquiring the identifier information of the user device is a short-range wireless communication system. The method according to claim 1,
The medium is a bar code,
Wherein the means for obtaining the identifier information of the user device obtains the image of the bar code by a camera module. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the group SNS page is a group SNS page for a celebration event in which the first user device notifies the second user device. A closed social network service method in which a purchase event occurs for an article with a medium storing identifier information of a group SNS page,
(a) the first user device purchasing the object generates the group SNS page using the identifier information of the group SNS page and uploads the content to the group SNS page;
(b) receiving the identifier information transmitted by the first user device and accessing the group SNS page by the third user device and uploading the content to the group SNS page; And
(c) acquiring the identifier information in proximity to the medium of the article to which the second user device is delivered, the article being purchased by the first user device;
(d) when the second user device acquires the identifier information, automatically accessing the group SNS page and browsing the contents previously registered by the first user device and the third user device A closed, social network service method based on objects. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the medium is a short range wireless communication tag,
Wherein the means for obtaining the identifier information of the user device is a short-range wireless communication method. 6. The method of claim 5,
The medium is a bar code,
Wherein the means for obtaining the identifier information by the second user device obtains the image of the bar code by a camera module. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the group SNS page is an SNS page for a celebration event in which the first user device and the third user device notify the second user device.

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