KR20190010280A - Apparatus and method for providing service of enterprise social network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a social network service for an enterprise. The present invention provides the apparatus and method register content of a particular email selected by a particular employee in his or her email list in enterprise as a post on a timeline board of each of the first to N^th employees and timeline board of the particular employee selected by the particular employee and register a reply as a comment to the post on the timeline board of each of the first to N^th employees and timeline board of the particular employee when any one of the first to N^th employees inputs the reply to the post on his or her timeline board.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE OF ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK [0002]

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for providing an enterprise social network service.

In the modern world, e-mail has become an important means of communication.

In particular, within the enterprise, e-mail has become the most common means of communication for business.

Such e-mail is characterized by unidirectional distribution by clearly specifying the recipient, and it is convenient for one-to-one communication or designation of a large number of users for information propagation.

In the past, when an employee A who received a specific e-mail in the enterprise received a reply to a particular e-mail with another employee, the employee A had to receive a reply e-mail from another employee who shared the e-mail.

Here, when another employee sends a reply with a large time difference, the employee A can receive other emails every time he receives a reply from another employee.

In this case, employee A has to spend a lot of time and effort in finding out replies that are mixed with other e-mails.

For example, if the employee A shares a specific e-mail with three other employees as shown in Fig. 10 and there is a difference in the reception time of reply mails received from three other employees as shown by the dotted line in Fig. 11, Likewise, since it is possible to receive other emails in the middle of receiving replies, it becomes difficult for employee A to find replies that are mixed with other emails.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the present invention to provide a time line bulletin board of each of first to Nth employees and a timeline bulletin board of a specific employee, , And if any one of the first to Nth employees inputs a reply to the post on the timeline board of his or her own, the timeline board of each of the first to Nth employees and the staff of the specific staff And to provide a corporate social network service providing apparatus and method for registering a reply with a comment on the post on a timeline bulletin board.

In order to achieve the above object, in one aspect, the present invention provides a method for transmitting an email list to a specific employee terminal used by a specific employee in a predetermined company, After receiving specific e-mail selection information from the specific employee terminal and transmitting organization chart information including the entire employee information of the predetermined company to the specific employee terminal, A communication interface for receiving N employee information from the specific employee terminal and receiving a first reply to the contents of the specific email from any one of the first to Nth employee terminals; The communication interface unit transmits the email list to the specific employee terminal, and when the communication interface unit receives the specific email selection information, the communication interface unit transmits the organization information to the specific employee terminal When the communication interface unit receives the first employee information to the Nth employee information, generates a timeline post including the contents of the specific e-mail, Registering the specific e-mail sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee, and upon receiving the first reply from the communication interface unit, Timeline board page of each staff member The first reply is registered as a first comment of the specific email sharing post, and the first time line bulletin board page, which is the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee registered with the specific email sharing post, A controller for registering a reply as a first comment of the specific e-mail-sharing post; And a data storage unit for storing the organization diagram information and storing a timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees and a timeline bulletin page of the specific employee.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an e-mail system including an e-mail list transmission step of transmitting an e-mail list to a specific employee terminal used by a specific employee in a predetermined company; An e-mail selection information receiving step of receiving specific e-mail selection information from the specific employee terminal, the e-mail selection information being information that the specific employee selected the specific e-mail from the e-mail list; An organization chart information transmission step of transmitting organization chart information including the entire employee information of the predetermined company to the specific employee terminal; An employee selection information receiving step of receiving the first employee information to the Nth employee information selected by the specific employee from the organization chart information from the specific employee terminal; After generating a timeline post including the contents of the specific e-mail, the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees corresponding to the first to Nth employee information and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee A post registration step of registering the specific e-mail sharing post; Receiving a first reply to the contents of the specific e-mail from any one of a first employee terminal to an Nth employee terminal; Registering the first reply as a first comment of the specific email sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees, and registering the time line bulletin board of the specific employee registered with the specific email sharing post And a comment registering step of registering the first reply as a first comment of the specific email sharing post on a first timeline bulletin board page, which is a bulletin board page.

As described above, according to the present invention, a specific employee of a predetermined company can share specific e-mail contents with other employees through a timeline board of a corporate social network service, Not a timeline posting on the bulletin board, so a specific employee can easily see the reply of other employees.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a system for providing a corporate social network service according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a corporate social network service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 to 8 are views illustrating a process of providing a corporate social network service in a corporate social network service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
9 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a corporate social network service in a corporate social network service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIGS. 10 and 11 are diagrams illustrating an example of e-mail sharing and reply in the enterprise in the related art.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. In describing the components of the present invention, the terms first, second, A, B, (a), (b), and the like can be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. It is to be understood that any component may be directly connected or connected to the other component, but that another component may be "connected "," coupled ", or "connected" between each component.

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a system for providing a corporate social network service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The enterprise social network service providing system 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a specific employee terminal 110, an internet communication network 120, and a business social network service providing server 130.

The specific employee terminal 110 may be a smart phone, a tablet PC, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, or the like, which can be used for Internet communication by a specific employee in a predetermined company.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the specific employee terminal 110 accesses the enterprise social network service providing server 130 through the Internet communication network 120 and accesses the enterprise social network service through the ID (IDentity) Sign in.

The specific employee terminal 110 then selects an email item from the menu of the enterprise social network service (for example, the news feed, the community, the knowledge server, the calendar, and the email in FIG. 3) An e-mail list of a specific employee can be received and displayed on the screen.

When a particular employee selects a particular email (e.g., the dotted-line email in FIG. 3) from the email list displayed on the screen of the particular employee terminal 110, And transmits the specific e-mail selection information, which is information for selecting a specific e-mail, to the enterprise-use social network service providing server 130.

The specific employee terminal 110 can receive the contents of the specific email from the enterprise social network service providing server 130 and display it as shown in FIG.

Here, when a button (for example, a "registration position designation" button indicated by a dotted line in FIG. 4) for requesting the organization information of a predetermined company is inputted by a specific employee, the specific employee terminal 110 transmits a corporate social network service Requesting the providing server 130 to provide the organization chart information, receiving organization chart information of a predetermined company from the enterprise social network service providing server 130, and displaying the organization chart information on the screen as shown in FIG.

If the first employee information to the Nth employee information (for example, "management strategy room" employee information in FIG. 5) in which a specific employee will share the contents of a specific e-mail is selected from the organization chart information, The specific employee terminal 110 transmits the first employee information to the Nth employee information selected by the specific employee to the enterprise social network service providing server 130. [ Here, the first to Nth employee information may include one or more of the names and IDs of the first to Nth employees.

Thereafter, the specific employee terminal 110 sends a first timeline board page (e.g., the news feed page of FIG. 6), which is a timeline board page of a particular employee who has registered a particular email sharing posting, From the enterprise social network service providing server 130 and display it on the screen.

When either one of the first to Nth employee terminals (not shown) used by the first to Nth employees inputs the first reply to the specific email content in the comment field of the specific email sharing post When the first reply is input and transmitted to the enterprise social network service providing server 130, the specific staff terminal 110 transmits the first reply to the time line bulletin board of the specific employee registered as the first comment of the specific email sharing post, A second timeline bulletin board page including a specific email sharing post and a first comment can be received from the enterprise social network service providing server 130 and displayed on the screen.

When several times replies to the contents of a specific e-mail, that is, the first to N-th replies, are registered as the first to N-th comments of a specific e-mail sharing post, 8, the timeline board page of the specific employee who has sorted the first comment or the N comment in the comment registration order can be received from the enterprise-use social network service providing server 130 and displayed on the screen.

This will allow certain employees to look at other employees' replies on the contents of a particular email in a timely manner on their timeline board page.

The internet communication network 120 mediates data transmission and reception between the specific employee terminal 110 and the enterprise social network service providing server 130 and transmits the data to any one of the employee terminals (not shown) and the enterprise social network service providing server 130 A Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network, a High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, and an LTE Advanced (LTE) Network. ≪ / RTI >

The enterprise social network service providing server 130 is a device for providing a social network service that can be used by employees of a predetermined company, and may be constituted by a single server or two or more servers.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 stores the organization chart information including the entire employee information of a predetermined company, and stores the organization chart information of each of the employees of the predetermined company including the timeline bulletin page of each employee of the predetermined company Account data can be stored.

When the specific employee terminal 110 accesses and logs in through the Internet communication network 120, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 provides a user interface including menu items of the enterprise social network service as shown in FIG. 3 .

At this time, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 can retrieve email data of a specific employee from an email server (not shown) managing the email of an employee of a predetermined company.

When the e-mail item is selected by the specific employee terminal 110, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 transmits the e-mail list of the specific employee to the specific employee terminal 110, The e-mail list of a specific employee is displayed as shown in FIG.

Meanwhile, when the enterprise social network service providing server 130 receives the specific email selection information from the specific employee terminal 110, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 transmits organization chart information of the predetermined company to the specific employee terminal 110 ). Here, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 transmits organization information of a predetermined company to the specific employee terminal 110 when a button for requesting organization information of a predetermined company is inputted through the specific employee terminal 110, As shown in FIG.

Thereafter, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 may receive the first employee information to the Nth employee information from the specific employee terminal 110. Here, the specific e-mail selection information is information selected from a specific e-mail list of a specific employee, and the first to n-th employee information is employee information that a specific employee will share the contents of a specific e-mail. You can choose.

As described above, the enterprise-use social network service providing server 130 receiving the first employee information to the Nth employee information generates a specific email sharing post including the contents of the specific email, And registers a specific e-mail sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee.

In addition, when the first reply, which is the first reply to the contents of the specific email, is received from any one of the first to Nth employee terminals (not shown) used by the first to Nth employees , The enterprise social network service providing server 130 receives the timeline bulletin page of each of the first to Nth employees and the first timeline bulletin page (the timeline bulletin page of a specific employee registered with a specific e-mail sharing post) The first reply can be registered as the first comment of the specific email sharing post, and the second timeline page, which is the timeline bulletin page of the specific employee including the specific email sharing post and the first comment, 110). Here, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 may allow a specific email sharing post in which the first comment is registered to be exposed at the top of the second timeline bulletin page.

The enterprise social network service providing server 130 receives the first to Nth times replies from one or more of the first to the Nth employee terminals (not shown) through the above configuration, It is possible to register the first comment to the N-th comment on a specific e-mail-sharing post including the contents of the e-mail.

Here, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 exposes a part of a specific e-mail-sharing post on the second timeline bulletin board page, and requests an additional request of the specific employee terminal 110 (for example, The user may touch the dotted line or request to provide a specific e-mail content via mouse key input). In this case, the entire contents of the specific e-mail-sharing post and the second e- The first to Nth comments may be exposed or the entire contents of the specific email and the first to Nth comments may be directly exposed on the second timeline board page as shown in FIG.

As described above, a specific employee of a certain company shares a specific e-mail content with other employees through a timeline bulletin board of a corporate social network service, and replies of other employees to a specific e- So that a specific employee can easily check the replies of other employees.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a corporate social network service providing server 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a corporate social network service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The enterprise social network service provision server 130 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a communication interface unit 210, a data storage unit 220, and a control unit 230.

The communication interface unit 210 transmits / receives data to / from the specific employee terminal 110 via the Internet communication network 120.

And performs data transmission / reception with any one of the first to Nth employee terminals.

Specifically, the communication interface unit 210 transmits an e-mail list to a specific employee terminal 110 used by a specific employee in a predetermined company, and sends specific e-mail selection information, It can be received from a specific employee terminal.

The communication interface unit 210 transmits the organization information of the predetermined company to the specific employee terminal 110 and then transmits the first employee information to the Nth employee information selected by the specific employee in the organization information to the specific employee terminal 110, Lt; / RTI >

 Also, the communication interface unit 210 can receive the first reply, which is the first reply to the content of the specific e-mail, from any one of the first to Nth employee terminals (not shown).

The communication interface unit 210 may be implemented by a network interface card or the like.

The data storage unit 220 temporarily stores data to be processed by the control unit 230 to be described later or stores a program for performing the function of the license support server 130, And stores the data.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the data storage unit 220 stores the organization chart information including the entire employee information of a predetermined company, and stores a timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees and a timeline bulletin board page of a specific employee .

In other words, it is possible to store account data of each employee of a predetermined company including a timeline bulletin page of each of the employees of a predetermined company.

The data storage unit 220 may include at least one of an internal storage device of the enterprise social network service providing server 130 and a storage server separate from the enterprise social network service providing server 130.

The control unit 230 is a module for controlling overall functions of the enterprise social network service providing server 130, and may be configured as a main board including a central processing unit (CPU).

In the embodiment of the present invention, the controller 230 may provide a user interface including menu items of the enterprise social network service to the specific employee terminal 110 logged into the enterprise social network service. Here, the control unit 230 may control the communication interface unit 210 to retrieve email data of a specific employee from an email server (not shown) that manages the entire employee email of a predetermined company.

If the e-mail item is selected by the specific employee terminal 110, the control unit 230 controls the communication interface unit 210 to transmit the e-mail list of the specific employee to the specific employee terminal 110.

When the communication interface unit 210 receives the specific e-mail selection information after transmitting the e-mail list of the specific employee to the specific employee terminal 110, the control unit 230 controls the data storage unit 220 to transmit the e- And controls the communication interface unit 210 to transmit organization information of a predetermined company to the specific employee terminal 110. [

After receiving the first employee information through the Nth employee information from the communication interface unit 210, the controller 230 generates a specific email sharing post including the contents of the specific email, A specific email sharing post is registered on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees corresponding to the information and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific staff member.

As described above, after a specific email sharing post is registered on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee, the communication interface unit 210 transmits the first reply The controller 230 registers the first reply as the first comment of the particular email sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees, The first reply is registered as the first comment of the specific e-mail-sharing posting on the first timeline bulletin board page, which is the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee registered for the post.

Then, the control unit 230 controls the communication interface unit 210 to transmit a second timeline bulletin board page, which is a timeline bulletin board page of a specific employee including a specific email sharing post and a first comment, to the specific employee terminal 110 Lt; / RTI > Here, the control unit 230 may set a specific email sharing post in which the first comment is registered to be exposed at the top of the second timeline board page.

The control unit 230 receives the first to Nth replies transmitted from one or more of the first to the Nth employee terminals (not shown) through the above-described configuration, .

Here, the control unit 230 can set a part of the specific e-mail sharing post to be exposed on the second timeline bulletin board page.

When the specific employee terminal 110 requests to provide an additional request, that is, a specific email content, the control unit 230 stores the entirety of the specific email sharing post in a separate window overlapped with the second timeline bulletin board page as shown in FIG. The content and the first comment to the Nth comment may be exposed or the entire contents of the specific email and the first to Nth comments may be directly exposed on the second timeline bulletin board page as shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, a process of providing an enterprise social network service in the enterprise social network service providing server 130 will be described.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a corporate social network service in a corporate social network service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the specific employee terminal 110 that has logged in to the enterprise social network service selects the e-mail item among the menu items of the enterprise social network service, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 transmits the e-mail list of the specific employee to the specific employee terminal 110 (S910). Here, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 can retrieve email data of a specific employee from an email server (not shown) that manages employee emails of a predetermined company.

Thereafter, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 receives specific email selection information from the specific employee terminal 110 (S920). Here, the specific e-mail selection information may be information selected from a specific e-mail list of a specific e-mail.

When the button for requesting the organization information of the predetermined company is inputted through the specific employee terminal 110 after receiving the specific e-mail selection information, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 transmits the organization diagram information To the specific employee terminal 110 (S930).

Thereafter, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 receives the first to Nth employee information from the specific employee terminal 110 (S940). Here, the first to Nth employee information may be selected by a specific employee from the organization chart information, as employee information for a specific employee to share the contents of a specific e-mail.

As described above, the enterprise-use social network service providing server 130 receiving the first employee information to the Nth employee information generates a specific email sharing post including the contents of the specific email, (S950), the timeline board page of each of the first to Nth employees and the timeline board page of the specific employee.

When receiving the first reply, which is the first reply to the contents of the specific e-mail, from any one of the first to Nth employee terminals (not shown) used by the first to Nth employees , The enterprise social network service providing server 130 registers the first reply as the first comment of the specific email sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees, In step S960, the first reply is registered as a first comment of the specific e-mail sharing posting on the first timeline bulletin board page, which is the timeline bulletin board page of the specific registered employee.

The enterprise social network service providing server 130 receives the first to Nth times replies from one or more of the first to the Nth employee terminals (not shown) through the above configuration, It is possible to register the first comment to the N-th comment on a specific e-mail-sharing post including the contents of the e-mail.

 After step S960, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 transmits a second timeline board page, which is a timeline board page of a specific employee including a specific email sharing post and a first comment, to the specific employee terminal 110, Lt; / RTI > Here, the enterprise social network service providing server 130 may set a specific email sharing post in which the first comment is registered to be exposed at the top of the second timeline board page.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

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The specific employee transmits an email list to a specific employee terminal used by a specific employee in the predetermined company and receives from the specific employee terminal a specific email selection information that is information that the specific employee selected a specific email from the email list, After transmitting the organization chart information including the entire employee information of the company to the specific employee terminal, the specific employee receives the first to Nth employee information selected from the organization chart information from the specific employee terminal, A first communication module for receiving a first reply to the contents of the specific e-mail from any one of the terminals for the first to eighth employees;
The communication interface unit transmits the email list to the specific employee terminal, and when the communication interface unit receives the specific email selection information, the communication interface unit transmits the organization information to the specific employee terminal When the communication interface unit receives the first employee information to the Nth employee information, generates a timeline post including the contents of the specific e-mail, Registering the specific e-mail sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific staff, and upon receiving the first reply from the communication interface unit, Timeline board page of each staff member The first reply is registered as a first comment of the specific email sharing post, and the first time line bulletin board page, which is the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee registered with the specific email sharing post, A controller for registering a reply as a first comment of the specific e-mail-sharing post; And
A data storage unit for storing the organization chart information, a timeline bulletin board page for each of the first to Nth employees, and a timeline bulletin board page for the specific staff member,
And a service providing device for providing the service to the enterprise. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the controller transmits the second timeline board page, which is the timeline board page of the specific employee including the specific email sharing post and the first comment, to the specific employee terminal through the communication interface unit. Network service provider. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the controller sets the specific email sharing post on which the first comment is registered to be exposed at the top of the second timeline bulletin board page. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the control unit causes the contents of the specific email sharing post to be exposed on the second timeline bulletin board page. 5. The method of claim 4,
When the specific employee terminal requests to provide specific e-mail contents, the control unit causes the entire contents of the specific e-mail sharing post and the first comment to be exposed in a separate window overlapped with the second timeline bulletin board page Wherein the service providing apparatus comprises: An e-mail list transmission step of transmitting an e-mail list to a specific employee terminal used by a specific employee in a predetermined company;
An e-mail selection information receiving step of receiving specific e-mail selection information from the specific employee terminal, the e-mail selection information being information that the specific employee selected the specific e-mail from the e-mail list;
An organization chart information transmission step of transmitting organization chart information including the entire employee information of the predetermined company to the specific employee terminal;
An employee selection information receiving step of receiving the first employee information to the Nth employee information selected by the specific employee from the organization chart information from the specific employee terminal;
After generating a timeline post including the contents of the specific e-mail, the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees corresponding to the first to Nth employee information and the timeline bulletin board page of the specific employee A post registration step of registering the specific e-mail sharing post;
Receiving a first reply to the contents of the specific e-mail from any one of a first employee terminal to an Nth employee terminal;
Registering the first reply as a first comment of the specific email sharing post on the timeline bulletin board page of each of the first to Nth employees, and registering the time line bulletin board of the specific employee registered with the specific email sharing post A comment registration step of registering the first reply as a first comment of the specific email-sharing post on a first timeline bulletin board page which is a bulletin board page
The method comprising the steps of: 7. The method of claim 6, wherein after the comment registration step
A bulletin board page transmission step of transmitting a second timeline bulletin board page, which is a timeline bulletin board page of a specific employee including the specific email sharing post and the first comment, to the specific employee terminal
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: The method of claim 7, wherein in the bulletin board page transmission step
Wherein the corporate social network service providing server sets the specific email sharing post in which the first comment is registered to be exposed at the top of the second timeline bulletin board page.

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