KR20110040335A - Method and system for managing personal relalationship using electronic business cards - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for managing personal relationship is provided to enable a user to conveniently manage personal connections using an electronic business card. CONSTITUTION: A server stores business card information to a personal network database(S31). The server transmits the business card information to a mobile terminal. The server quantifies personal relationship between users by applying card information exchange event between the mobile terminal of the user and a mobile terminal of other user. According to the quantified personal network relationship, the server renews the personal network database(S32).

Description

Network management method and system using electronic business card {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PERSONAL RELALATIONSHIP USING ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARDS}

The present invention relates to an electronic business card, and more particularly, to a network management method and system using the electronic business card.

Existing paper business cards are convenient to send and receive, but they are likely to be useless unless they are properly managed after receiving them. Even if you keep business cards, it's not easy to search them in a short time. If you get a new card from someone who gave you the old one, remembering and renewing the old one is not easy.

To solve this inconvenience, a method of digitizing information by scanning business cards has been developed. In this way, it is easier to manage, search, and update the received business cards, but the inconvenience still does not go away from having to exchange paper business cards.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the inconvenience of having to manage after giving and receiving a paper business card, and furthermore, to provide a network management method and system for managing the network by using the received business card and discover new networks It's there.

Network management method according to an aspect of the present invention for solving the above problems,

Opening a business card service account of a user in a social network database (DB) at the server, and storing the business card information registered by the user in the social network DB;

Transmitting, by the server, the business card information of the user to the mobile terminal so as to be stored in the mobile terminal of the user;

Quantifying a network relationship between users by reflecting an exchange event of business card information occurring between the mobile terminal of the user and the mobile terminal of another user; And

The server may include updating the network DB according to the metered network relationship.

Preferably, the mobile terminal may include at least one of an RFID tag and a reader, an infrared communication interface, a wireless transmission / reception module such as Bluetooth, and a human body communication interface for exchanging the business card information.

Preferably, the step of quantifying the network relationship

It may include the step of assigning a network score according to the frequency, duration, time, place, etc. of the business card information exchange event of the user and the other user.

Preferably, the step of quantifying the network relationship

The user may include the step of assigning a network score according to the communication results of the phone call, e-mail transmission, short message transmission and the like with other users through their mobile terminal.

Preferably, the network management method,

If the user updates his business card information, the server may further include transmitting the updated business card information of the user to the mobile terminal of other users managed by the user's network.

Preferably, the network management method,

The server may further include providing an update history of the user's business card information for other users managed by the user's network.

Preferably, the network management method,

Receiving, by the server, personal information of a specific user from the user;

Retrieving, by the server, the at least one social connection between the user and the specific user by referring to the social network DB; And

The server may further include presenting at least one of the retrieved social connections to the user.

Preferably, the step of presenting to the user

And presenting to the user at least one network connection selected from the searched network connections based on the networked relationship quantified in the network.

Network management system according to another aspect of the present invention,

Open a business card service account of a user in a network database (DB), store the business card information registered by the user in the network DB, and transmit the business card information of the user to the mobile terminal to be stored in the mobile terminal of the user; A server for quantifying a network relationship between users by reflecting an exchange event of business card information occurring between the mobile terminal of the user and the mobile terminal of another user, and updating a network DB according to the quantified network relationship; And

It may include a network DB for maintaining the user's business card service account, storing the business card information by the server, and stores the metered network relationship.

Preferably, the mobile terminal may include at least one of an RFID tag and a reader, an infrared communication interface, a wireless transmission / reception module such as Bluetooth, and a human body communication interface for exchanging the business card information.

Preferably, the server,

It is operable to quantify the network relationship by assigning a network score according to the frequency, duration, time, location, etc. of the business card information exchange event of the user and the other user.

Preferably, the server,

The user may be operable to quantify the network relationship by assigning a network score according to the communication results such as a telephone call, an email transmission, a short message transmission and the like with another user through his mobile terminal.

Preferably, the server,

When the user updates his or her business card information, the user may be operable to transmit the updated business card information of the user to mobile terminals of other users managed by the user's network.

Preferably, the server,

It can be operable to provide a history of updating the user's business card information to other users managed by the user's network.

Preferably, the server,

Receives personal information of a specific user from the user, retrieves at least one social connection between the user and the specific user by referring to the social network DB, and transmits at least one social connection among the retrieved social connections to the user May be operative to present.

Preferably, the server,

It may be operable to present to the user at least one network connection selected from the searched network connections based on the network relationship quantified in the network DB.

According to the present invention, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience of having to manage after having exchanged with another person while holding a paper business card, and furthermore, by using the received electronic business card data, it is possible to manage a network and discover a new network.

With respect to the embodiments of the present invention disclosed in the text, specific structural to functional descriptions are merely illustrated for the purpose of describing embodiments of the present invention, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in various forms and It should not be construed as limited to the embodiments described in.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The same reference numerals are used for the same constituent elements in the drawings and redundant explanations for the same constituent elements are omitted.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing an electronic business card management and network search system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the electronic business card management and network search system 10 includes mobile terminals 11a and 11b, computers 12a and 12b, a mobile network 13, the Internet 14, a business card management server 15, It may be illustrated including a network search server 16 and a network DB 17.

Initially, the electronic business card user A connects to the business card management server 15 from the mobile terminal 11a via the mobile network 13, and establishes a personal account for receiving the electronic business card management and social networking service. Subsequently, the electronic business card user A can directly register his / her business card information, and later can also register business card information of another person.

The business card management server 15 secures the account space of the electronic business card user A in the network DB 17, and stores and manages the business card information of oneself or others registered by the electronic business card user A.

On the other hand, the electronic business card user A can store, manage and change the business card information of himself or another person in the mobile terminal 11a. For example, the electronic business card user A directly manipulates the mobile terminal 11a, or connects the mobile terminal 11a to the computer 12a and then uses the computer 12a to store a predetermined amount of the mobile terminal 11a. You can store, manage, and change your own or other business card information in the space. In this case, the business card information in the storage space of the mobile terminal 11a and the business card information in the account space of the network DB 17 may be different from each other. In the state where the electronic business card user A is connected to the business card management server 15, The business card information stored in the account space of the network DB 17 and the business card information stored in the mobile terminal 11a may be synchronized with each other.

Similarly, the electronic business card user B can store and manage the business card information of himself or others in his mobile terminal 11b, and store the business card information synchronized with the mobile terminal 11b in the account space in the network DB 17. And manage.

Although the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be dedicated terminals for exchanging electronic business cards in one embodiment, the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be preferably implemented as mobile phones having an electronic business card exchange function. For example, the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be designed to include an RFID reader and a tag. In other embodiments, mobile terminals 11a and 11b may include an infrared communication interface. In another embodiment, mobile terminals 11a and 11b may include a Bluetooth module. In another embodiment, the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be designed to communicate with the human body when in contact with the body.

In the case where the two electronic business card users A and B meet with each other carrying the mobile terminals 11a and 11b, the mobile terminal 11a of the user A and the mobile terminal 11b of the user B mutually share the electronic business card information stored in each other. I can exchange it. The function of exchanging the electronic business card information by the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be implemented in various ways. For example, the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be designed to include an RFID reader and a tag. In this case, the RFID reader may be operated automatically or by a user's instruction while the mobile terminals are in close proximity to each other. Electronic business card information can be read from an RFID tag. In another embodiment, the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may include an infrared communication interface, which may exchange electronic business card information by facing the infrared communication interfaces of both devices and performing infrared communication. In another embodiment, the mobile terminals 11a and 11b are designed to include a Bluetooth module, so that the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be set to exchange electronic business card information when the other party is searched for by a peripheral device. In another embodiment, when the users A and B make physical contact such as shaking hands, electronic business card information may be exchanged between the mobile terminals 11a and 11b using human body communication.

In one embodiment, the updated electronic business card information on the mobile terminals 11a and 11b may be reflected on the network DB 17 after the user accesses the business card management server 15 through the mobile network 13. In another embodiment, without using an expensive mobile network 13, a user connects the mobile terminals 11a and 11b to the computers 12a and 12b and then connects the business card management server (via the Internet 14) to the computer. 15), the updated electronic business card information may be reflected in the network DB 17.

Here, the conventional system for exchanging electronic business cards merely provides a means for exchanging electronic business cards only once, but the electronic business card exchange system according to the present invention continuously accumulates the information of people with whom the user of the mobile terminal contacts. And management, it is possible to generate social networking information centered on users, and further, to utilize social networking information of other users.

Specifically, after the business card item of the person who user A has contacted is created in the storage space of the mobile terminal 11a or the account space of the social network DB 17, the contact date time and the contact maintenance time are maintained for the business card item of the contacted person. Network information is accumulated in the form of temporal information such as time and spatial information such as contact location. In this case, the network information of the mobile terminal 11a and the network DB 17 may be temporarily different, but may be regarded as substantially the same information since they are synchronized periodically or aperiodically.

In general, the more frequent or long contact, the more important contact, business card management server 15 evaluates the contact frequency and time accumulated in the network information and quantified by the network parameters such as network score, supplementally The subjective importance and type of the network can be specified by the network level or the network type. Each network can be assigned a network score, network grade, and network type values. For example, a network score is quantified by the frequency or time of meeting, and the network level may be a rating that indicates how intimate the user thinks. Can be explained.

Network scores, network grades, and network types as network attributes are not limited to the examples of this detailed description, and may be variously set using variables such as time, place, frequency, career field, interest field, and the like.

In addition, a user may access the business card management server 15 to directly register a specific network and assign a network score, grade, and type. The network scores, network grades, and types of the network connections are stored and managed for each user in the account space of the network DB 17.

On the other hand, according to the embodiment, the business card management server 15 may also reflect the results of the telephone call, short message transmission, e-mail transmission, etc. performed by the user A through the mobile terminal 11a in the network information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if the user changes his or her business card information due to moving, changing the job, changing the phone number, etc., the business card management server 15 connects in the social networking accounts of all the users who have the user A as a social networking. It is possible to automatically reflect the changed business card information of User A with respect to the information. Therefore, even if the change history is not informed to all the people who know it, the users set up with the network can accurately know the latest status of the user.

Furthermore, the business card management server 15 may provide a history of change of the business card information of one user in a form that other users can view. You can get a rough idea of a user's career, or promote your own career.

In the foregoing, the configuration for registering and updating electronic business card information and building network information has been described. You can now retrieve the desired network connections from the established network information. The network searching method of the present invention is a method of finding an optimal network that can connect to a specific person by using his / her own previously formed network when the user A wants to contact a certain person who is not yet connected.

User A connects to social networking server 16 and specifies the person to whom he wishes to be connected. The network search server 16 may search for network relations between the user A and the target person from the network information to find candidate network connections, and select a recommended network connection from the candidate network connections and present it to the user A. User A may find a route to be networked for the target person who has no connection with him at the moment based on the recommended network connection.

2 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a method of searching for a social network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 2, user A forms a network relationship with user B and user C around him, and a network grade is assigned to the network between users B and C. User B has his / her own social relationship with other users B1, B2 and B3, and User C also has a social relationship with users C1, C2 and C3. In this way the network can be expanded like a spider's web. Each network relationship is assigned a network score and a network grade as parameters. For example, the network score is assigned a value between 0 and 10 points, and the network grade is displayed as upper / middle / lower. In this example, the network score can be mechanically determined according to the contact frequency, and the network grade can be set by the user according to subjective intimacy. For example, if you are not intimate and you are very close, even if your network score is low, you may have a high network rating.

Suppose that User A has not been in contact with User E at this time and has no general network relationship, but wants to contact User E for some reason. If user E has a network relationship with users E1, E2, E3, and C3, a search for the first three stages of the first candidate connection 21 between user A and user E is user A-user C-user C3-user E can do.

On the other hand, if user B2 known to user B has a social relationship with user D, and user D2 known to user D has a social relationship with user E, user A-user B-user B2- The second candidate network connection 22 of five levels, User D-User D2-User E, can also be retrieved.

The plurality of candidate network connections searched between the target user and the user may be provided to the user who wants to search the network as it is without secondary processing, or may provide the user with one or more optimal network connections selected from the candidate network connections.

In the present invention, the selection of the optimal network connection can be determined based on the network score or grade in the network information. Specifically, the selection of the optimal network connection of the present invention is a simple selection method for selecting a network connection having the largest summation by simply adding up each network score of the network relationships included in the network connection, weighted according to the network stage. There may be a weighted selection method of selecting a network connection having the largest summation weight by adding weighted network scores, selecting a network connection having the highest network level by considering only the network level, and considering only a specific network type. .

For example, the first candidate network connection 21 of the three stages described above has a network score and a grade of 4 points / up, 8 points / bottoms, and 9 points / point, respectively, and the fifth stage of candidate network connections ( 22) is 6 points / up, 3 points / medium, 10 points / medium, 5 points / medium, 6 points / up, the sum is 21 points and 21 points, respectively, through the simple selection method. Candidate network connections 22 will be recommended.

On the contrary, when the weighted selection method is selected, the larger the network stage, the more difficult it is to actually establish a network, so the larger the total network stage, the greater the weight reflection. For example, in the case where the total network stage is 3 stages, the weight may be 1 in the primary network, 0.75 in the 2nd network, 0.5 in the 3rd network, and 5 in the 3rd network. The weights can be said to be weighted in the primary network, 0.5 in the primary network, 0.5 in the third network, 0.25 in the 4th network, 0.125 in the 4th network, and 0.0625 in the 5th network. In this case, the sum score of the first candidate network connection 21 is 14.5 points, the sum score of the second candidate network connection 22 is 11 points, and the first candidate network connection 21 will be recommended.

In another example, a method of considering only network grades, in which case, although the number of steps is short, the first candidate network connection 21 including the network grade 'low' is excluded, and the number of network stages is long, but A second candidate network connection 22 with a rating above 'medium' may be recommended.

As such, the method of recommending the optimal network connection among the searched network connections after searching for a network can be variously designed and adopted as necessary by appropriately using network parameters such as stored network scores, network grades, and network types.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing an electronic business card and a network search according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 3, the electronic business card management and network search method, in step (S31) in accordance with the request to open an account for the user to open an account in the server to open the account and receive the business card information received in the network and the DB; Starting from storing the business card information from the user in the mobile terminal.

In step S32, when the user carries the mobile terminal 11 and meets another user and exchanges the business card information of the mobile terminal 11, it is determined that the business card information has been exchanged. In real time or regularly or irregularly, the network information items for other users are created or updated in the network DB 17.

In step S33, if the user continuously interacts with the user later, information such as contact time, contact time, frequency, etc. are accumulated in the network DB 17 by the mobile terminal 11 and based on the accumulated information. The metered network score is generated in the business card management server 15 and managed by the network DB 17. In addition to the network score, the user can further set the level, type, etc. of the network relationship.

In step S34, when the user inputs information of a specific target person to be connected, the network search server 16 obtains a possible network connection between the user and the specific person from the network DB 17 and the network score. It can be searched and presented based on external information.

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications will fall within the scope of the invention.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing an electronic business card management and network search system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a network search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing an electronic business card and a network search according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (16)

Opening a business card service account of a user in a social network database (DB) at the server, and storing the business card information registered by the user in the social network DB; Transmitting, by the server, the business card information of the user to the mobile terminal so as to be stored in the mobile terminal of the user; Quantifying a network relationship between users by reflecting an exchange event of business card information occurring between the mobile terminal of the user and the mobile terminal of another user; And The network management method comprising the step of updating the network to the network in accordance with the metered network relationship. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal comprises at least one of an RFID tag and a reader, an infrared communication interface, a wireless transmission / reception module such as Bluetooth, and a human body communication interface for exchanging the business card information. . The method of claim 1, wherein quantifying the network relationship And assigning a social networking score according to the frequency, duration, time, location, etc. of the business card information exchange event between the user and the other user. The method of claim 1, wherein quantifying the network relationship The network management method comprising the step of assigning a network score in accordance with the communication history of the user, such as a telephone call, email transmission, short message transmission and the like with another user through his mobile terminal. The method according to claim 1, And when the user updates his / her business card information, sending the updated business card information of the user to mobile terminals of other users managed by the user's network. The method according to claim 1, And providing, by the server, an update history of the user's business card information so that other users managed by the network of the user can view the network. The method according to claim 1, Receiving, by the server, personal information of a specific user from the user; Retrieving, by the server, at least one social connection between the user and the specific user by referring to the social network DB; And The server further comprises the step of presenting to the user at least one of the network connections of the searched network connections. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of presenting to the user The network management method comprising the step of presenting to the user at least one of the network connections selected based on the network relationship quantified in the network connections. Open a business card service account of a user in a network database (DB), store the business card information registered by the user in the network DB, and transmit the business card information of the user to the mobile terminal to be stored in the mobile terminal of the user; A server for quantifying a network relationship between users by reflecting an exchange event of business card information occurring between the mobile terminal of the user and the mobile terminal of another user, and updating a network DB according to the quantified network relationship; And A network management system including a network DB for maintaining a business card service account of the user, storing business card information by the server, and storing the metered network relationship. The network management system of claim 9, wherein the mobile terminal comprises at least one of an RFID tag and a reader, an infrared communication interface, a wireless transmission / reception module such as Bluetooth, and a human body communication interface for exchanging the business card information. . The method of claim 9, wherein the server, A network management method, characterized in that the network is operable to quantify the network relationship by assigning a network score according to the frequency, duration, time, location, etc. of the business card information exchange event between the user and the other user. The method of claim 9, wherein the server, Networking management system, characterized in that the user by giving a network score in accordance with the communication history of the telephone call, email transmission, short message transmission and the like with other users through their mobile terminal. The method of claim 9, wherein the server, And when the user updates his or her business card information, transmits the updated business card information of the user to mobile terminals of other users managed by the user's network. The method of claim 9, wherein the server, Network management system, characterized in that to operate so that other users managed by the network of the user can view the update history of the user's business card information. The method of claim 9, wherein the server,  Receives personal information of a specific user from the user, retrieves at least one social connection between the user and the specific user by referring to the social network DB, and transmits at least one social connection among the retrieved social connections to the user Network management system, characterized in that operative to present. The method of claim 15, wherein the server, A network management system, characterized in that it is operable to present to the user at least one of the network connections selected based on the network relationship quantified in the network of the network connections.

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