KR20060044709A - Method and system for forming community - Google Patents

Abstract

It is possible to realize the unity, separation, and separation of groups, without having to perform group participation procedures on an individual basis.

A community forming system for realizing the expansion of a group by recommending a user group composed of a plurality of terminals A to join the group to one or more other user groups composed of the plurality of terminals B through the server 10. to be. The server generates a group attribute for generating a group profile and a group presence based on the user information database 11 for holding user information and group information as user side information, and registering the user information database with the user information database. The unit 17 receives the matching request information from the terminal A, performs matching with the group profile or the group presence of the user information database based on the matching request information, and transmits the matching result to the terminal A. FIG. The matching processing unit 14 and the group selected by the terminal A to determine which group to invite, transmit the invite information to the terminal B of the determined group, and accept the invite from the terminal B. Or an invite information processing unit 15 for receiving the rejection and determining the invite result.

Community formation system

Description

Community formation method and community formation system {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING COMMUNITY}

1 shows an embodiment of a community forming system according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing an example of a relationship diagram and a search result of a group according to the present invention;

3 is a flow explanatory diagram of matching between groups by a server in the present invention.

4 is a flow explanatory diagram of participation group determination by a server in the present invention;

5 is a flow explanatory diagram of group attribute generation by a server in the present invention.

6 is a flow explanatory diagram of terminal side invite processing in the present invention;

7 is a flow explanatory diagram of terminal side group expansion according to the present invention;

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10: server A1 to AN, B1 to BN: terminal

The present invention relates to a method and system for forming a community suitable for forming a group of many people in a short time when communicating through a network, so that it is easy to combine, separate and leave groups.

With the development of the Internet, communication is being developed in which a user exchanges messages, photos, and presence information with another user connected to a network using a PC or a mobile communication device. Such information exchange can be carried out simultaneously in a group of three or more people as well as in a 1: 1 format such as a telephone. In that case, the communication takes place by sending a message to another member of the group or sharing the same picture with the group member.

Such groups may be created by people who already know each other, but many people search for and participate in an unknown group by matching their interests with the attributes of the group. However, if there are only a few users participating, communication in the group is not activated. Therefore, in the community service, it is necessary to increase the value of the service by increasing the members of the group to activate the communication.

By the way, in the conventional community site, when a plurality of users form a group based on a user's hobbies, preferences, residence area, etc., it has to perform the procedure of joining a group on an individual basis. For this reason, for example, in order to form a group of 100 people, each of 100 people had to go through a procedure to join the group. For this reason, there was a problem that it was difficult to form a large group.

For example, a chat room existing on an Internet site requires an individual procedure to participate in the chat. Moreover, as a prior art example, the technique disclosed by patent document 1 exists, for example. This technique extracts common attributes (hobbies, preferences) of a group of plural users and uses the information for marketing activities for the group. In this technique, each time a new user joins a group, the user profile of each person is searched again to re-extract common attributes. However, there is no function to match or combine with other groups based on the information, and individual procedure is required to join the group. Therefore, this prior art has a function of extracting a common attribute of a group, but does not have a function of matching a group and a group based on the attribute and a function of combining the group and the group to form a large group. In addition, this prior art has no effect other than to improve the marketing activities for the group.

[Patent Document 1] Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2001-75972

Therefore, the subject of this invention is making it possible to implement matching between groups by a simple procedure.

Another object of the present invention is to enable grouping, separation, and separation between groups without individual group participation procedures.

In the method for forming a community according to the present invention, in order to match a user group composed of one or more users that can be connected through a communication network with another user group, group attribute information of the user group is generated, and the user group inputs the user group. Matching with at least one separate user group based on a search condition, the group can be expanded to include any one user group and at least one matching user group.

In this community formation method, the size of the group is expanded from the small group to the medium group, and further the large group by the matching of the user group, and each group as a result is maintained hierarchically.

In this community formation method, the user group in which the user group matches the group attribute information of the other user group in the matching is in bytes.

In the present community forming method, when the matching other user group is served, whether or not to serve the matching user group is determined based on the input information of the user group member.

In the method for forming a community, when the other user group is served, it is determined based on the input information of the member of the other user group whether or not the invited side agrees with the serving.

In this community formation method, the dependency relation can be temporarily turned off for each of one or more higher groups to which the user individual or user group belongs.

In this community forming method, the group's presence information or profile information is also generated from user information of users belonging to a group as group attribute information of the user group.

In the present community formation method, the group matching also searches for the uppermost group after grouping.

In this community formation method, further, in group matching, the group requesting the search is not included in the search target.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising: means for generating group attribute information of a user group in order to match a user group composed of one or more users connectable via a communication network with another user group; And a means for matching with at least one separate user group based on the input search condition, wherein the group can be expanded to include any one user group and at least one matched user group. A system is provided.

In this community formation system, the size of the group is expanded from the small group to the medium group, and also the large group by the matching of the user group, and the community formation system also holds each group as a result of the expansion hierarchically. Means for doing so.

The community forming system further includes means for in bytes of the user groups in which the user group matches the group attribute information of the other user group in the matching.

The community forming system also includes means for determining, based on input information of any user group member, whether or not to serve a matched user group when serving another matched user group.

The present community forming system also includes means for determining, if another user group is served, based on the input information of the other user group member whether or not the invited side agrees with the serving.

The community forming system also includes means for temporarily turning off the dependency relationship to each of one or more higher groups to which the user individual or user group belongs.

The community forming system further includes means for generating, as the group attribute information of the user group, presence information or profile information of the group from user information of users belonging to a group.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a community forming system for realizing an expansion of a group by recommending that a user group connectable through a communication network join one or more other user groups through a server. Is composed of a plurality of terminals (A), the at least one other user group is composed of a plurality of terminals (B), and the server is a user information database for holding user information and group information as user side information, and A group attribute generating means for generating a group profile and a group presence based on the information of the user information database and registering the user information database with the user information database, and receiving matching request information from the terminal A and based on the matching request information. Every group with a group profile or group presence in the information database. The embodiment is provided to the community establishing system characterized in that it comprises a matching processing means for transmitting the matching result to the terminal (A).

In the community forming system according to the second aspect, the server further receives a group selected by the terminal A, determines a group to serve, and sends invite information to the terminal B of the determined group. And an invite information processing means for receiving the accept or rejection of the invite from the terminal B to determine the result of the invite.

In the community forming system according to the second aspect, the invite information processing means further registers the newly created group information in the user information database when receiving the invite acceptance from the terminal B. When the byte rejection is received, the terminal A is notified that the invitee has been rejected.

In the community forming system according to the second aspect, the server further includes user information processing means for registering user information transmitted from the terminal A into the user information database, and transmitted from the terminal A. FIG. Presence information processing means for registering the presence information in the user information database, and participation group processing means for receiving the participation group information sent from the terminal A and registering it in the user information database.

The technique disclosed in Patent Literature 1 generates a group having a certain common term, and searches for a profile of each person for the generation. And if the common term changes, each person's profile is searched again.

In contrast, in the present invention, groups are matched with each other and matched from group attribute information. In other words, according to the present invention, group attribute information can be generated from profile and presence information of a group member, and user groups can be matched with each other. And, in addition to the formed group, another group may be a new group to form a large group. Moreover, the relationship between the formed groups can be layered and maintained.

In this way, a user can form a group of many people with fewer transactions, and can communicate with people with the same interests. It can also facilitate the joining, separating, and leaving of large groups.

For example, in the case of forming a group of 100 people, it is assumed that 50 groups already exist in two of X and Y. In the prior art, in order to form a group Z of 100 persons, for example, each of 50 members of the Y group has to participate in the X group (50 total processes).

On the contrary, in the present invention, a group Z of 100 persons can be formed by performing a combination treatment of the X group and the Y group once. This makes it possible to reduce 49 batches of processing.

[Effects of the Invention]

According to this invention, the following effects are acquired.

1. Since groups are matched, it is possible to create a relationship with a person belonging to a group having the same interest at a time.

2. By expanding and forming groups by matching groups, a larger group can be formed with less processing than when a group is expanded and formed by matching individuals.

3. By generating group attribute information on the server side, the time required for group formation can be shortened.

Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention

1 shows an embodiment of a community forming system according to the present invention. Here, the community forming system assumes one server 10 that can be connected via a communication network such as the Internet, N (N is positive integer) terminals A1 to AN, and N terminals B1 to BN. . Of course, the number of the terminals A1 to AN and the terminals B1 to BN need not be the same.

The server 10 includes a user information database (hereinafter referred to as a user information DB; 11), a user information processing unit 12, a presence information processing unit 13, a matching processing unit 14, an invite (invite) information processing unit. (15), chat processing unit 16, group attribute generation unit 17, and participation group processing unit 18. Each of these parts is a functional block as it is, and is realized by executing a program stored in the storage device of the server 10 except the user information DB 11 by the CPU.

On the other hand, when each terminal speaks about the terminal A1, the user information registration unit 21, the presence information registration unit 22, the matching request transmitter 23, the matching result receiver 24, the invitee 25, The byte result receiving unit 26, the chat unit 27, and the participation group determination unit 28. Each of these sub-functions is also a functional block and is realized by executing a program stored in the storage device of the terminal A1 by the CPU. The same applies to the other terminals A2 to AN.

The terminal B1 has an invite receiver 31, an invite reply 32, and a chat 33. Each of these sub-blocks is also a functional block, and is realized by executing a program stored in the storage device of the terminal B1 with the CPU, and the other terminals B2 to BN are also the same. In addition, the terminals B1 to BN represent only the functional blocks necessary for the terminal on the side to be byted.

The function of each part in the terminal A1 is demonstrated. In the user information registration unit 21, user information such as age, gender, residential area, hobby, etc. is registered by the user, and the user information is transmitted to the server 10. In the presence information registration unit 22, a user sets and registers presence information such as a place, a mood, and online / offline information. This presence information is transmitted to the server 10. The matching request transmission unit 23 transmits matching request information such as age, gender, residence area, hobby, number of people, and the like, inputted by the user to the server 10. The matching result receiver 24 receives the matching result from the server 10. The invite part 25 selects the group which serves in a matched group, and transmits it to the server 10. FIG. The invite result receiver 26 receives the invite result from the server 10. The chat unit 27 chats. The participation group determination unit 28 determines a group to be joined in the future among the groups to which it belongs.

Next, the function of each part in the server 10 is demonstrated. The user information processing unit 12 registers user information such as age, gender, residential area, hobby, etc. transmitted from the user information registration unit 21 of the terminal A in the user information DB 11. The presence information processing unit 13 registers presence information such as a place, on / offline, and mood transmitted by the presence information registration unit 22 of the terminal A in the user information DB 11. The matching processing unit 14 receives the matching request information from the matching request transmitter 23 of the terminal A, performs matching with the group profile or the group presence of the user information DB 11 based on the matching request information. The matching result is transmitted to the terminal A.

The invite information processing unit 15 receives the group selected by the invite portion 25 of the terminal A and determines the group to be byted. The invite information processing unit 15 transmits the invite information to the terminals B1 to BN of the group determined to be byted, and accepts the invite from the invite reply section 32 of the terminals B1 to BN or Rejection is received to determine the byte result. When the invite information processing unit 15 accepts, the newly created group information is registered in the user information DB 11 to start chatting again. In the case of rejection, the invite information processing unit 15 notifies the invite result receiving unit 26 of the terminal that the invite is rejected. The chat processing unit 16 sends and receives a chat.

The user information DB 11 holds user information and group information as user information. The group attribute generating unit 17 generates a group profile and a group presence based on the information of the user information DB 11 and registers it in the user information DB 11. The participation group processing unit 18 receives the participation group information sent from the participation group determination unit 28 and registers it in the user information DB 11.

The invite reception unit 31 of the terminals B1 to BN receives the invite information from the server 10. The byte return unit 32 transmits the acceptance or rejection of the byte to the server 10.

Next, the database structure in the present embodiment will be described.

Table 1 has shown an example of user information hold | maintained in the user information DB11. In this case, the user information includes a user name, a profile, and a presence. On the other hand, the profile consists of gender, age, residence, and hobbies, and the presence consists of place and online / offline information.

User Information in DB user profile Presence gender age residence hobby Place On / off a1 south 22 Tokyo Soccer Tokyo on a2 south 21 Kanagawa Soccer Tokyo on a3 south 20 Saitama Soccer Tokyo on b1 female 20 Chiba Soccer Tokyo on b2 female 19 Tokyo Soccer Tokyo on b3 female 21 Kanagawa Soccer Tokyo on

Table 2 has shown an example of group information hold | maintained in the user information DB11. Here, the group information includes the relationship between the upper and lower groups of the group (see FIG. 2A), the group profile generated from the hobby of the user information, the group presence generated at the presence place of the user information, the group formation date and time, and the participating group information. Is done. The participant group information is flag information, Y is yes, and N is no. The participant group processing unit 18 sets the participant group information to N to temporarily establish a dependency relationship for each user or at least one higher group to which the user group belongs. You can turn it off.

Group information in user information DB difference down Group profile Group presence Group formation date Participation Group Information X a1 Soccer Tokyo 03.10.10 Y X a2 Soccer Tokyo 03.10.10 Y X a3 Soccer Tokyo 03.10.10 N Y b1 Soccer Tokyo 03.10.12 Y Y b2 Soccer Tokyo 03.10.12 N Y b3 Soccer Tokyo 03.10.12 Y Z X Soccer Tokyo 03.10.15 Y Z Y Soccer Tokyo 03.10.15 Y V c1 Travel Osaka 03.10.17 Y V c2 Travel Osaka 03.10.17 Y V c3 Travel Osaka 03.10.17 Y W d1 Travel Osaka 03.10.18 N W d2 Travel Osaka 03.10.18 N

Next, the group profile generation logic, the group presence generation logic, the matching logic, the invite group selection logic, and the invite permission logic will be described in detail.

The group profile generation logic generates the group profile from the center, average, variance, and condition, or condition, etc. of the profile of the user information of the user information DB 11 in the group attribute generation unit 17. . For example, since the hobbies of a1 to a3 in Table 1 are soccer, soccer becomes a group profile.

The group presence generating logic generates the group presence every predetermined time from the center, average, variance, end condition, or condition of the presence of the user information of the user information DB 11 in the group attribute generation unit 17. . For example, since the places a1 to a3 in Table 1 are Tokyo, Tokyo becomes a group presence.

The matching logic performs matching with the group profile or the group presence of the user information DB 11 by the matching processing unit 14 based on the matching request information. For example, if the group X in Table 2 makes a match request for a hobby: soccer group, a group Y of b1-b3 whose group profile is soccer is matched. In this search, it is assumed that the highest group is searched and the group X which requested the search is not included in the search target. Then, the search results are displayed from the top to the lowest group in the form as shown in Fig. 2 (b), for example. In FIG. 2 (b), I and J are the highest group.

The invite group selection logic aggregates the information of the group to be served by each user and selects the largest group. If the number is the same, a group to be randomly selected from the same number is determined. Alternatively, the leader of the group may decide, or the decision of the first person to enter may be used.

The byte permission logic collects information on whether or not each user who has received an byte will accept the input byte, and selects the largest group. Of course, the leader of the group may decide, or the decision of the first person to enter may be used.

3 is a flow explanatory diagram of matching between groups by the server 10. In matching between groups by the server 10, the matching processing unit 14 first receives a matching request from the terminal A1, for example (step S30). The matching processing unit 14 performs matching with the group profile or the group presence of the user information DB 11 based on the received matching request information (step S31). For example, if group X has matched a request for a hobby: soccer group, a group of b1 to b3 whose group profile is soccer is matched. The matching processing unit 14 transmits a matching result to the terminals A1 to AN (step S32).

Next, the invite information processing unit 15 receives the invite group selected by the terminals A1 to AN and determines the group to be byted (step S33). The invite information processing unit 15 transmits the invite information to the terminals B1 to BN of the group which is determined to be invited (step S34). The invite information processing unit 15 receives the accept or rejection of the invite from the terminals B1 to BN and determines the result of the invite (step S35). In the case of accepting the invite in step S36, the invite information processing unit 15 adds the new group information to the user information DB 11 (step S37) to start a chat (step S38). If the invite is rejected in step S36, the invite information processing unit 15 notifies the terminals A1 to AN that the invite has been rejected (step S39).

4 is a flow explanatory diagram of participation group determination by the server 10. The participation group processing unit 18 receives, for example, the participation group determination information from the participation group determination unit 28 of the terminal A1 (step S40), and registers the information in the user information DB 11 (step S41).

5 is a flow explanatory diagram of group attribute generation by the server 10. The group attribute generation unit 17 generates a group profile from the center, average, variance, end condition, or condition of the profile of the user information of the user information DB 11 and registers it in the user information DB 11 (step S50). For example, soccer is a group profile because the hobbies of a1 to a3 in Table 1 are soccer. The group attribute generating unit 17 generates a group presence every predetermined time from the center, average, variance, AND condition, OR condition, etc. of the presence of the user information of the user information DB 11, The user information DB 11 is updated. For example, since the places a1 to a3 in Table 1 are Tokyo, Tokyo becomes a group presence.

6 is a flow explanatory diagram of the terminal side invite processing. The matching request transmitter 23 sends the matching request to the matching processor 14 of the server 10 (step S60). Subsequently, the matching result receiver 24 receives the matching result from the matching processor 14 of the server 10 (step S61). Next, the invite portion 25 selects a group to be byted from the matched group and transmits it to the invite information processing portion 15 of the server 10 (step S62). Next, the invite result receiver 26 receives the invite result from the invite information processor 15 (step S63).

7 is a flow explanatory diagram of terminal-side group expansion. The participation group determination unit 28 determines a group to join in the future from among the groups to which it belongs, and transmits the participation group information to the participation group processing unit 18 of the server 10 (step S70).

The above-described processing procedure is executed by the CPU based on the program stored in the storage device in the server 10 and the terminals A and B. FIG. Of course, the program can be recorded on a recording medium, provided, or sent by communication.

As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated with preferable embodiment, this invention is not restrict | limited to the said embodiment. For example, in the expansion of the group, a technique using an in-byte is employed, but this is only an example, and another technique may be employed.

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects are obtained.

1. Since groups are matched, it is possible to create a relationship with a person belonging to a group having the same interest at a time.

2. By expanding and forming groups by matching groups, a larger group can be formed with less processing than when a group is expanded and formed by matching individuals.

3. By generating group attribute information on the server side, the time required for group formation can be shortened.

Claims (20)

In order to match a user group composed of one or more users that can be connected through a communication network with another user group, group attribute information of the user group is generated, Match one or more of said separate user groups based on a search condition inputted by said certain user group, And a group can be expanded to include at least one of the user groups matching the certain user group. The method of claim 1, And by matching the user groups, the size of the group is expanded from a small group to a medium group, and further, a large group, and each group as a result is maintained hierarchically. The method of claim 1, And in the matching, the user group invites a user group matching the group attribute information of another user group. The method of claim 3, wherein And in the case of serving the matched other user group, determining whether or not to serve the matched user group based on the input information of the user group member. The method of claim 3, wherein And in the case where the other user group is byted, whether or not the byted side agrees with the byte is determined based on the input information of the other user group member. The method of claim 2, And a dependency can be temporarily turned off for each of one or more higher groups to which the user individual or user group belongs. The method of claim 1, Generating presence information or profile information of a group from user information of a user belonging to a group as the group attribute information of the user group. The method of claim 2, In group matching, searching for the highest group after grouping. The method of claim 1, In group matching, a group for which a search is requested is not included in the search target. Means for generating group attribute information of the user group in order to match any user group consisting of one or more users connectable via a communication network with another user group, and Means for matching the at least one separate user group based on a search condition entered by the user group, And expand the group to include the user group and the matched one or more user groups. The method of claim 10, And by matching the user groups, the group size is expanded from a small group to a medium group to a large group, and the community forming system also includes means for hierarchically maintaining each group as a result of the expansion. Community formation system. The method of claim 10, And means for inviting a user group in which the user group matches the group attribute information of another user group in the matching. The method of claim 12, Means for determining, based on input information of any user group member, whether or not to serve a match for the matched user group in the case of serving the matched other user group. Forming system. The method of claim 12, And if said other user group has been invited, further comprising means for determining, based on input information of said other user group member, whether or not the invited side agrees with said invite. system. The method of claim 11, Means for temporarily turning off the dependency for each of the one or more higher groups to which the user individual or user group belongs. The method of claim 10, And means for generating, as group attribute information of the user group, presence information or profile information of the group from user information of a user belonging to a group. A community forming system for realizing the expansion of a group by requesting that a user group connectable through a communication network join one or more other user groups through a server, The certain user group is composed of a plurality of terminals (A), The at least one other user group consists of a plurality of terminals (B), The server, A user information database for holding user information and group information as user side information; Group attribute generating means for generating a group profile and a group presence based on the information in the user information database and registering the group presence in the user information database; Matching processing for receiving matching request information from the terminal A, performing matching with a group profile or group presence of the user information database based on the matching request information, and transmitting a matching result to the terminal A. FIG. Means for forming a community. The method of claim 17, The server receives a selected group from the terminal A, determines a group to invite, transmits the invite information to the terminal B of the determined group, accepts the invite from the terminal B, or And community information processing means for receiving the rejection to determine the result of the invite. The method of claim 18, The invite information processing means additionally registers the newly created group information in the user information database when receiving the accept of the invite from the terminal B, and transmits to the terminal A when receiving the rejection of the invite. And a community forming system for notifying that the invitee has been rejected. The method of claim 17, The server, User information processing means for registering the user information transmitted from the terminal A in the user information database, Presence information processing means for registering the presence information transmitted from the terminal A to the user information database, And a participation group processing means for receiving the participation group information transmitted from the terminal (A) and registering it in the user information database.

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