KR20110077313A - Social network service(sns) method using the name card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A social network service method using a name card is provided to implement a social network by reflecting social relation in real life to on line. CONSTITUTION: An inherent code is added on a name card. The name card data including the inherent code is transmitted to a contact number of a user. The inherent name card code is received from a terminal of a name card recipient(S301). A contact information of the name card provider is searched from a database(S303). The address search result is received from the database(S305). A message which asking whether to offer personal information is transmitted to the address of the name card provider(S307).

Description

Online network building service method using business card {Social Network Service (SNS) method using the name card}

The present invention relates to an online network building service method, and more particularly, to an online network building service method for realizing a social network by directly reflecting a business relationship between business cards in real life.

In general, a social network service (SNS) is an online networking service. It is a concept that encompasses one-person media, one-person community, information sharing, etc., and is a community-type website set up for the purpose of inviting participants to introduce friends to each other and broaden their friendship. For example, Cyworld, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut, me2DAY Linknow, and Starple.

The most common types of social network services are those that categorize people into certain categories (eg, I Love School). In addition, social network services that provide a means of communicating with friends (usually self-introduced webpages) and social network services that have a system for recommending something based on the trusting relationships of users are common.

However, according to the conventional social network service, services that form a network with anyone (eg, Cyworld, etc.) are losing their competitiveness because they have no characteristics, and services in a closed environment (eg, I Love School) between specific groups Etc.) was difficult to spread.

On the other hand, when you encounter a new person in business, you usually exchange business cards. At this time, when the business card recipient receives the business card, the information on the business card is registered on Outlook Express or groupware to manage the personal information of the business card provider.

However, such a conventional business card management method has a hassle to input and store the information on the business card received by the card recipient one by one. In addition, when the personal information of the business card provider is changed due to turnover or promotion, there is an inconvenience that the recipient of the business card must change it by hand.

Accordingly, the present inventors have led to the present invention while researching an online network building service that can implement a business relationship online as it is in the business world.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, the purpose of providing an online network building service to the user to give a unique identification code for each business card and to build a network online using such a business card unique code do.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an online network building service that transmits the updated information to the service member and those who have established a network online when the service member updates his business card information.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an online network building service that authenticates the reliability of the business card.

In order to achieve the above object, the online network building service method of the present invention comprises the steps of generating a business card unique code (for example, numbers, letters or a combination of letters and numbers) according to the request of a member's terminal to make a business card; Transmitting business card data including the generated business card unique code to a member's contact information (for example, a member's mobile phone or e-mail address or a member's PC logged in to an online social networking service server) through a network; Receiving a business card unique code through a network from a terminal of the business card recipient; Inquiring a contact number of a business card provider corresponding to the received business card unique code into a database and receiving a contact inquiry result from the database; Transmitting a message inquiring whether to provide personal information to a contact number of a business card provider received from the database through a network; And when the business card provider approves the information transfer as a result of inquiring whether the personal information is provided, the personal information of the business card provider is transmitted to the terminal of the business card recipient through the network, and the business card provider and the business card recipient remind the other party's personal information. And establishing a network of communication between the two so as to query the database (see FIGS. 2 and 3). In the above-described configuration, before providing the cardholder's personal information to the card recipient, the reason for having an approved procedure provided by the card provider is to protect the personal information of the card provider, as well as whether the card is being used illegally. This is to allow the business card provider to recognize whether or not.

In addition, the online network building service method of the present invention may further comprise the step of adjusting the network between the network coordinating client and network coordinating client according to the request of the network coordinating client.

In this case, the network coordinating step may include: receiving, through a network, a message indicating a request for network up coordination from a network of the network coordinator; Transmitting a message inquiring whether or not to be approved to a network coordination requestor through a network; As a result of inquiring whether to approve the approval, when the network adjustment requestee approves the network uplift, the network includes the step of upgrading the network between the two from the information transfer relationship to the trust relationship (see FIG. 4).

In addition, when the trust relationship is established between the network coordinating client and the network coordinating client, the two may query the database for updated personal information of the other party.

In addition, the online network building service method of the present invention comprises the steps of receiving via the network updated information related to personal information from the terminal of the member has been given a business card unique code; Storing the update information in the database; The method may further include transmitting the update information stored in the database to a contact point of a person who has a trust relationship with the member through a network (see FIG. 5).

In addition, the online network building service method of the present invention may further include the step of transmitting the update information stored in the database via the network to the online site to which the member is subscribed (see Figure 5).

In addition, the online network building service method of the present invention may further include the step of transmitting the personality reliability of the reliability inquiry requestee to the terminal of the reliability inquiry requester through the network according to the request of the terminal of the reliability inquiry requester (FIG. 6).

Here, the personal information reliability may be information including the number of persons who have established a trust relationship with the reliability inquiry requestee.

According to the online network building service method of the present invention, the business network management is convenient by realizing a business relationship online to exchange business cards in real life as it is.

In addition, the present invention provides a business card reliability inquiry service. Accordingly, the business card recipient can verify the reliability of the received business card, that is, the business card provider. Furthermore, such a business card reliability inquiry service can be used as a system for verifying the personal information of a person who is a member of an online site (eg, a job information site).

In addition, the present invention, before providing the card information of the card provider requested by the card recipient to the card recipient, by providing a procedure approved by the card provider for the provision of personal information, as well as the effect of protecting the personal information information, the business card is malicious There is an effect that the business card provider can recognize whether it is used as a means. That is, the present invention has an effect that can be utilized as a system for preventing fraud due to malicious use of a business card in advance.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail with respect to the online network building service method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a network diagram of an online network building service system using a business card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an online network building service system using a business card of the present invention includes a network server cooperating with a network server 400, an affiliate server 400, a database 300, and a network. It can be made including a terminal 200 to communicate with the network building service server 100 through.

In the above-described configuration, the terminal 200 may be a network building service user terminal capable of data communication, for example, a mobile phone, a smartphone, a PDA or a personal computer (PC).

The affiliate server 400 may include a mail server 410, a paper business card server 420, a banking server 430, a shopping mall server 440, and the like.

The database 300 stores member information subscribed to the social networking service server 100.

Meanwhile, the service provided to the user by the network building service server 100 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 6.

2 to 6 are flowcharts illustrating an online network building service method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a business card making procedure, FIG. 3 is a business card receiving procedure, FIG. 4 is a trust relationship setting procedure, FIG. 5 is a business card update information providing procedure, and FIG. 6 is a business card reliability inquiry procedure.

First, a business card manufacturing procedure according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

1. Membership request

The member terminal 210 accesses the network building service server 100 and registers as a member (steps S201 and S203). Then, the network building service server 100 stores the personal information of the member (eg, ID, password, email address, place of residence, mobile phone number, etc.) received from the member terminal 210 at the time of membership registration in the database 300.

2. Request business card production

The member terminal 210 requests the network establishment service server 100 to produce a business card (step S207). Then, the network establishment service server 100 requests, for example, the company name, department name, job title, company number and fax number to the member terminal 210 for producing a business card, and the member terminal 210 transmits the request according to the request. One information is stored in the database 300. In addition, the job name and the duties in charge at the previous job, etc. may be requested to the member terminal 210. Of course, this request may be made during the membership process.

3. Business card unique code generation and electronic business card production

Network building service server 100 generates a business card unique code that can identify the business card, and stores the generated business card unique code in the database 300 (step S209). Then, an electronic business card is produced (step S211), and the produced electronic business card is stored in the database 300 (step S213). In this case, the design of the electronic business card may be directly by the member, or the network building service server 100 may download the member's design plan from the member terminal 210 and produce an electronic business card based on the design plan. In addition, the network building service server 100 may provide a self-business card editing program to the member terminal 210 so that the member can easily design. Here, the self business card editing program may include various editing functions and templates that allow a user to easily edit a business card.

4. Electronic Business Card Distribution

Network building service server 100 distributes the produced electronic business card to the contact of the member. The distribution method may be a method of transmitting to the member terminal 210 connected to the network establishment service server 100 (step S215), a method of transmitting to an e-mail address of the member (step S217), or a multi-media message service (MMS). It can be a way to send to the member mobile phone using. Such an electronic business card includes a business card unique code and is provided to the business card recipient, for example, through communication between terminals equipped with a Bluetooth function.

5. Paper business card request

The network establishment service server 100 transmits the produced electronic business card to the paper business card manufacturing server 420 to request the production and delivery of the paper business card (step 219). In this paper business card, a unique code of a business card is described.

Next, with reference to Figure 3 looks at in detail the procedure of receiving a business card of the present invention.

1. Receive business card unique code

The business card recipient receives from the business card provider an electronic business card or a paper business card containing a code business card, that is, a business card unique code. The card receiver terminal 230 logs in to the network building service server 100 to download the personal information of the card provider. The card recipient enters the card unique code into his terminal. Then, the business card recipient terminal 230 requests the personal information of the business card provider by transmitting the business card unique code inputted by the business card recipient to the social networking service server 100 (step S301).

2. Database lookup

The network building service server 100 inquires the database 300 of personal information (including contact information) of the business card provider corresponding to the business card unique code received from the business card recipient terminal 230 (step S303), and from the database 300. The inquiry result is received (step S305).

3. Provide Information

Network building service server 100 transmits a message inquiring whether to provide information to the terminal 220 of the business card provider. The inquiry method may be a method (step S307) or an e-mail transmission method (step S309) or the like inquiring to the terminal of the business card recipient using a multi-media message service (MMS). Here, the inquiry message includes simple personal details of the card recipient, for example, the name of the card recipient, the company name, and the position information. As a result of the inquiry, when the business card provider approves the information transfer (step S311), the personal information of the business card provider is transmitted to the business card recipient terminal 230 via the network (step S313). On the other hand, if the business card provider refuses to transmit the information, the personal information of the business card provider is not transmitted. For example, the business card provider refuses to transmit the information when the information contained in the inquiry message is first encountered (that is, when the business card recipient is the first person).

4. Networking

In addition, when the business card provider approves the information delivery (step S311), the network building service server 100 contacts the two so that the business card provider and the business card recipient can query the personal information of the other party in the database 300. Set in the information transfer relationship, and stores this setting information in the database (300). As a result, anytime, anywhere between the people who have a network of information transfer relationship, it is possible to query the personal information of the other party in the database (300).

Next, the trust relationship setting procedure of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4.

1. Networking Request

The network coordinator requesting terminal 240 transmits the requestee information, for example, a business card unique code or name, to the network building service server 100 so as to request the network building service server 100 to raise the network with the client. (Step S401).

2. Database lookup

Network building service server 100 queries the database 300 for the personal information (including contact information) of the client corresponding to the client information received from the network coordination requester terminal 240 (step S403), the database 300 The inquiry result is received from step S405.

3. Networking Up

Network building service server 100 transmits a message inquiring whether to approve to the network coordination requestee terminal 250. The inquiry method may be a method (step S407) or an email transmission method (step S409) or the like inquiring to the terminal of the requestee using a multi-media message service (MMS). Here, the inquiry message includes a simple personal information of the client, for example, the client's name, company name and position information. As a result of the inquiry, when the requestee approves the network up adjustment (step S411), the connection between the two is increased from the information transfer relationship to the trust relationship (step S413), and the adjustment information is stored in the database 300. Accordingly, the two can query the updated personal information of the other party in the database (300). On the other hand, when the requestee refuses to increase the network, the request is not made to the network and the requester terminal 240 is notified of the fact.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the network can be set up in two steps, information transfer and trust relationship. However, it is not limited to this. For example, when the business card provider approves the information transfer (step S311), the network establishment service server 100 may set a network between the business card provider and the recipient and the trust relationship immediately after omitting the above-described information transfer relationship. have. In addition, the network can be set up in more than two steps.

In addition, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is to be able to query the updated personal information of the other party between those who have a relationship of trust, but is not limited thereto. For example, when the network is a trust relationship, it may be possible to inquire specific personal information of the other party than in the previous relationship. For example, in a trust relationship, the other party's hobbies, skills, and work information, which could not be retrieved at the previous stage, can be inquired.

Next, the business card update information providing procedure of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

1. Update personal information

The terminal 260 of the member who received the business card unique code from the social networking service server 100 transmits the update information related to the personal information to the social networking service server 100 via the network (step S501). Then, the network building service server 100 stores the update information received from the member terminal 260 in the database 300 (step S502).

2. Provide update information

The network building service server 100 notifies the DB update to the contact person (for example, mobile phone or e-mail, etc.) of a person who has established a network with the member, that is, a member who has information or a trust relationship (step S503). Then, the notified person's terminal is connected to the social networking service server 100 (step S504), and accordingly, the social networking service server 100 updates the information received from the member terminal 260, the terminal of the informed person. The update information is transmitted to the network (step S505). In addition, the server transmits the update information to an online site (for example, a bank, a shopping mall or a job information site, etc.) to which a server is affiliated with the network building service server 100, that is, a member (S507).

On the other hand, when the personal information is updated, the network building service server 100 may omit the above notification procedure (step S503), and may immediately transmit the update information to the contact information of the person who has made a connection with the member.

Next, the business card reliability inquiry procedure of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

1. Reliability Inquiry Request

The reliability inquiry requester terminal 270 transmits the requestee's information to the social networking service server 100, thereby requesting the inquiry of the reliability of the requestee (step S601). Here, such a reliability inquiry can also be made when the card recipient requests the personal information of the card provider (step S301). Then, the network establishment service server 100 inquires the database 300 (step S603), and receives the personal information reliability of the requestee from the database 300 (step S605). Such personality reliability may be, for example, a value representing the number of persons in a trust relationship with the client. It may also be expressed as a trust rating (eg, top or bottom) depending on the number of people that have a trust relationship with the requestee. In other words, the credibility of such personal information increases as the number of trustees increases.

2. Reliability Transmission

The network building service server 100 transmits the reliability of the personal information of the requestee to the reliability inquiry requester terminal 270 (step S607). Accordingly, the reliability inquiry requester can verify the reliability of the received business card information from the network establishment service server 100.

The reliability inquiry service according to the present invention can be utilized as a means for verifying history information. For example, like the digital signature, personal information reliability information may be attached to a resume and the like.

Meanwhile, in addition to the above services, the network building service server 100 of the present invention may provide personal information reliability information to an online site (eg, a job information site). Accordingly, the online site can be verified from the network establishment service server 100 the reliability of its members.

In addition, in addition to the above services, the network establishment service server 100 of the present invention may further include a service for providing personal information of the business card provider in a foreign language requested by the business card recipient. To this end, the network building service server 100 of the present invention may be equipped with a program for automatically machine translation of personal information registered by the member in a foreign language. As a result, the service user of the present invention can develop a business relationship internationally.

The online network building service method of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the range allowed by the technical idea of the present invention.

1 is a network diagram of an online network building service system using a business card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 to 6 are flowcharts illustrating an online network building service method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a business card making procedure, FIG. 3 is a business card receiving procedure, FIG. 4 is a trust relationship setting procedure, FIG. 5 is a business card update information providing procedure, and FIG. 6 is a business card reliability authentication procedure.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

100: social networking service server

200 to 270: terminal

300: database

400: affiliate server

Claims (8)

Generating a business card unique code according to a business card production request of a member terminal; Transmitting business card data including the generated business card unique code to a member's contact information via a network; Receiving a business card unique code through a network from a terminal of the business card recipient; Inquiring a contact number of a business card provider corresponding to the received business card unique code into a database and receiving a contact inquiry result from the database; Transmitting a message inquiring whether to provide personal information to a contact number of a business card provider received from the database through a network; And When the business card provider approves the information transfer as a result of inquiring whether the personal information is provided, the personal information of the business card provider is transmitted to the terminal of the business card recipient through the network, and the business card provider and the business card recipient receive the other person's personal information from the database. Setting up a social networking relationship to communicate with each other so that Online network building service method made, including. The method of claim 1, At the request of the terminal of the network coordinating client, further comprising the step of coordinating the network between the network coordinating client and the network coordinating client. An online social networking service method. The method of claim 2, wherein the network adjustment step, Receiving a message on the network requesting the network up coordination from the network of the network coordinator requesting; Transmitting a message inquiring whether or not to be approved to a network coordination requestor through a network; As a result of inquiring about the approval, if the network coordinating requestor approves the network uplift, it includes the step of raising the network between the information transfer relationship and the trust relationship, An online social networking service method. The method of claim 3, wherein Once the trust relationship is established between the network coordinator and the network coordinator, Two is the online network building service method characterized in that the updated personal information of the other party can be inquired in the database. The method of claim 3, wherein Receiving, via a network, update information related to personal information from a terminal of a member who has been given a business card unique code; Storing the update information in the database; The method further includes the step of transmitting the updated information stored in the database to the contact information of a person who has a trust relationship with the member through a network. An online social networking service method. The method of claim 5, The method further includes the step of transmitting the update information stored in the database to the online site to which the member is subscribed, via a network. An online social networking service method. The method of claim 3, wherein At the request of the terminal of the reliability inquiry requester, transmitting the personality reliability of the reliability inquiry requester to the terminal of the reliability inquiry requester through the network. An online social networking service method. The method of claim 7, wherein the personal information reliability, Reliability inquiry The online network building service method, characterized in that the information including the number of people who have a trust relationship with the requestee.

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