KR101738688B1 - Method and system for social network - Google Patents

Abstract

A social network service method and system are provided.
A method of providing a social network service according to the present invention includes: selecting a second user terminal corresponding to a condition input to a first user terminal; Transmitting a predetermined information request signal from the first user terminal to the selected second user terminal; Receiving information corresponding to the transmitted information request signal from the second user terminal; And the obtained information is transmitted to the first user terminal. In the social network service according to the present invention, the user selects another user corresponding to a specific condition and receives information from the user, Therefore, it maximizes the information providing effect of the social network.

Description

[0001] METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORK [0002]

The present invention relates to a social network service method and system, and more particularly, to a social network service method and system for maximizing the information providing effect of a social network by providing a sense of presence and presence, and a recording medium and a user terminal therefor .

Due to the development of information and communication technology, social network service (SNS) is widely used. As a dictionary, social network service is a service that enables users to form a human network on the web, and Twitter, cyworld, facebook, and the like are representative. Also, with the development of wireless user terminal technology such as smart phone, social network service is not provided only in fixed user terminal such as classical computer.

However, the conventional social network service has a problem of providing only the same level of service, despite the various characteristics and environment of the user. That is, the same information provided to a simple wired user terminal has been mechanically provided to the wireless user terminal, while ignoring the characteristics of the wireless user terminal capable of acquiring various information due to portability. Therefore, a social network service that integrates various characteristics of user terminals placed in various environments into consideration has not been disclosed to date. In the related art, a technology for updating a user server according to a condition of a user group has been disclosed in the past. However, a social network service that integrates and manages information of a specific user in real- to be.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new concept of a social network service method capable of solving the above-mentioned problems and providing information by integrating characteristics and environments among various users.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a device element such as a user terminal for implementing the above-described method.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a social network service, the method comprising: selecting a second user terminal corresponding to a condition input to a first user terminal; Transmitting a predetermined information request signal from the first user terminal to the selected second user terminal; Receiving information corresponding to the transmitted information request signal from the second user terminal; And transmitting the acquired information to the first user terminal.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first user terminal and the second user terminal information may be previously input to the network server for the social network service method, and the second user terminal may be one or more.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first user terminal and the second user terminal may be wired or wireless user terminals.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the condition includes a location condition based on a point-of-interest input by the first user terminal, and the information transmitted to the first user terminal after being acquired from the second user terminal, And image information captured by a camera provided in the second user terminal.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the number of the selected second user terminals may be plural.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a social network service system, comprising: a first user terminal to which an information request is input by a user; A first server unit capable of searching for a second user terminal to which the information request inputted from the first user terminal is transmitted and can respond to the information request; A communication unit capable of transmitting the information request signal to a second user terminal retrieved by the first server unit; A second user terminal for receiving an information request signal from the communication unit, acquiring information corresponding to the received information request, and transmitting the information to the second server unit; And a second server unit receiving information transmitted from the second user terminal and transmitting the information to the first user terminal.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the first user terminal and the second user terminal information may be previously input to the first server unit, the second user terminal may be a wireless user terminal, Terminal.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the number of the second user terminals and the number of the first user terminals may be plural.

Further, the present invention provides a recording medium on which program commands for driving the above-described social network service system and method are recorded, the second user terminal being used in the above-described social network service system, And a second user terminal.

The social network service according to the present invention maximizes the information providing effect of the social network because the user can select another user corresponding to a specific condition and receive information from the user. In particular, it is possible to overcome the limitation of space effectively and to share various information. Furthermore, unlike the prior art in which a user group is updated, the present invention can select a user of a specific condition within a predetermined user group and acquire necessary information therefrom, thereby making it possible to acquire information more easily.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a method of providing a social network service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
2 to 5 are views for explaining an information selection method of another user terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.
6 to 8 are diagrams illustrating an example of using a social network method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a block diagram of a social network service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention, operational advantages of the present invention, and objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention can be implemented in various different forms, and is not limited to the embodiments described. In order to clearly describe the present invention, parts that are not related to the description are omitted, and the same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same members.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as " including " an element, it does not exclude other elements unless specifically stated to the contrary. The terms "part", "unit", "module", "block", and the like described in the specification mean units for processing at least one function or operation, And a combination of software.

The present invention provides a new integrated social network method and apparatus in which information between users of a social network is communicated and exchanged with each other in order to solve the above-mentioned problems.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a method of providing a social network service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a user who needs specific information inputs the information condition through his or her own user terminal (first user terminal) (S100). For example, if the traffic situation of a specific area is required, the user can input the specific area as a condition. Alternatively, a person who wishes to obtain the actual situation of the athletic meet as the image capturing information may input the place where the athletic event takes place as the information condition. Herein, the information condition corresponds to a condition that a user terminal capable of obtaining request information can be determined in a condition extracted from information requested by a user of the first user terminal.

Accordingly, the user terminal (second user terminal) of another user corresponding to the condition inputted from the first user terminal, that is, matching another user is selected first (S200). The second user terminal can be selected based on the location information of the user terminal, which can be obtained by the location recognition means such as GPS, and the selection can be performed by the server of the social network system according to the present invention.

Thereafter, an information request signal by the first user terminal is transmitted to the first user terminal (S300), the second user terminal obtains the corresponding information, and the obtained information is transmitted to the first user terminal And transmitted to the terminal (S400). At this time, the user of the second user terminal may selectively obtain the requested information, and the information transmission to the first user terminal may be coordinately transmitted through the server of the social network system according to the present invention. As described above, the social network method and system according to the present invention enable various information sharing among users by selectively requesting information transmission between user terminals. Accordingly, in the present invention, the user terminal is interpreted as an electronic device capable of communicating and acquiring various information (for example, image information by a camera). For example, a mobile phone, a tablet PC, or the like having various kinds of sensors in which information such as position information is recognized is also included in the user terminal of the present invention and can be communicated by wire or wireless.

In the case of the present invention, a method of sharing information among users in a user group in which a pre-relation is established between so-called users is adopted rather than a method in which all user terminals share information with each other. Accordingly, the user of the second user terminal, which is searched according to the request of the first user terminal, has a certain relationship with the user of the first user terminal in the social network. Therefore, in the present invention, the user information about the first user terminal and the second user terminal has already been inputted to the network server for the social network service method in advance, and in particular, a predetermined relationship Respectively. Here, the relation means a right to confirm each other's information on the network, and the first user and the second user have a right to confirm each other's information, and therefore, the first user terminal and the second user terminal That is, the user information is already stored in the network server. That is, when there is a request from the first user terminal, the second user terminal of another user having a predetermined relationship with the first user terminal is searched through the user information of the first user terminal, A second user terminal matching the condition input to the user terminal, that is, a second user terminal capable of responding to the information request of the first user terminal, is firstly selected, wherein the second user terminal can be selected from a plurality of The first user can obtain more accurate and rich information.

Further, the present invention may be applied to a case where an information request input to a first user terminal has a certain relationship with the first user terminal, considering a case where there is no second user terminal corresponding to a condition input from a first user terminal A second user terminal is selected as a second user terminal that does not have a certain relationship with the first user terminal but has a certain relationship with the other user terminal based on the user of another user terminal . In this case, another user terminal having a certain relationship with the first user terminal functions not as a second user terminal for providing information, but as a kind of relay node in a search process, which will be described in more detail below.

2 to 5 are views for explaining an information selection method of another user terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, a request for information about predetermined information is input to the first user terminal 101. For example, information for asking about a situation of an event occurring in a specific area is input through the first user terminal 101. [

Referring to FIG. 3, the second user terminal 102 of the user corresponding to the input information request is searched. However, in FIG. 3, it is exemplified that the second user terminal 102 satisfying the condition input by the first user terminal is not searched. For example, a case in which a user terminal of another user in a specific area (for example, a Gangnam station in Seoul) is not recognized (i.e., a user of another user who establishes a predetermined network relationship of a user of the first user terminal) .

Referring to FIG. 4, although the information request by the first user terminal can not be provided to another user terminal that can not provide desired information to the user of the first user terminal but has a certain relationship with the first user terminal on the social network / RTI >

Referring to FIG. 5, a user terminal satisfying a corresponding condition among a user terminal (a first user terminal) 103 having a predetermined relationship with another user terminal is searched according to an approval signal of another user terminal. That is, although the user of the another user terminal 102 can not provide desired information to the user of the first user terminal 102, the user of the other user terminal 102 may selectively provide the user of the first user terminal 102 with the user Which can provide desired information to the relay node. In order to more actively activate it, the user of another user terminal may be given a certain incentive such as a communication fee reduction or a point accumulation if the user terminal is approved.

According to the present invention, it is possible to sequentially enlarge a source according to a user's selection of desired information without a user grouping process in the server.

In the social network service method according to the present invention, it is preferable that the user information request information includes a predetermined location condition, and the location recognition sensor such as GPS for selecting a user terminal matching the input location condition And is preferably provided in a user terminal.

6 to 8 are diagrams illustrating an example of using a social network method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, if the user wants to obtain the medical care situation in the A hospital, he inputs the location information of the A hospital to his first user terminal.

Referring to FIG. 7, a user terminal near the A hospital is searched to select a second user terminal. At this time, the user of the second user terminal is already in a predetermined relationship with the user of the first user terminal, and the range may be extended from the second user terminal user as necessary, as described above.

Referring to FIG. 8, the selected second user terminal can provide various information to the first user terminal, in particular, can transmit the captured image information captured by the imaging device (camera) to the first user terminal, When the number of the second user terminals is plural, the situation of the hospital A can be more abundantly and accurately provided to the first user terminal.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a new social network service system.

9 is a block diagram of a social network service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, the system includes a first user terminal 910 to which an information request is input by a user. Here, the user terminal 910 may be connected to the network in a wired or wireless manner

And includes any electronic device to which predetermined information can be input. For example, a computer, a mobile phone, a tablet PC, and the like are included in the user terminal 910.

In addition, the social network system according to the present invention includes a network server 920, the information request input from the first user terminal is transmitted to the network server 920, and the second user And a first server unit 921 capable of searching for the terminal 930. Here, the first server unit 921 should be interpreted as a functional unit that can be actually driven by one server apparatus. As described above, the second user terminal 930 has already stored the corresponding information (particularly, the user information) in the first server unit, and thereby, the other user having a predetermined relationship with the user of the first user terminal The second user terminal may be selected.

The network system according to the present invention includes a communication unit 940 that can transmit the information request signal to the second user terminal 930 retrieved by the first server unit 921, May receive the information request signal from the communication unit 940 and may acquire information corresponding to the received information request and then transmit the information to the second server unit 923. [ That is, the server of the network system according to the present invention receives the information request from the first user terminal, selects the corresponding second user terminal, transmits the selected second user terminal, receives the information from the second user terminal, As shown in FIG.

In particular, the social network system according to the present invention can provide various information about the separated space to the user, and the information is proportionally increased according to the number of persons having the social network. Thus, it is possible to effectively provide and utilize information in shopping, sports viewing, performance viewing, traffic information sharing, medical care, law, and finance.

In addition, the network method and system according to the present invention can be implemented as a computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like, and a carrier wave (for example, transmission via the Internet). The computer-readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

Accordingly, the true scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical idea of the appended claims.

Claims (16)

A method of social network service,
A first user terminal of a second user terminal corresponding to a condition input to the first user terminal, the user terminal having a certain relationship with the first user terminal in a social network;
Transmitting a predetermined information request signal from the first user terminal to a first selected second user terminal;
Receiving information corresponding to the transmitted information request signal from the second user terminal; And
And transmitting the obtained information to the first user terminal,
The information transmitted to the first user terminal after being acquired from the second user terminal includes image information captured by the camera of the second user terminal, and the number of the selected second user terminals is a plurality Dogs,
The method of claim 1,
Wherein when the second user terminal corresponding to the condition input to the first user terminal is not selected first, the another user terminal having a certain relationship with the first user terminal in the social network, And selecting a second user terminal corresponding to a condition input to the first user terminal from a user terminal having a predetermined relationship with the terminal. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first user terminal and the second user terminal information are previously input to the network server for the social network service method.
3. The method of claim 2,
And the second user terminal may be one or more.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the second user terminal is a wired or wireless user terminal.
The method of claim 3,
Wherein the first user terminal is a wired or wireless user terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the condition includes a location condition based on a point-of-interest entered by the first user terminal.
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