TW561383B - Network group establishment method and system for distributed points of sale - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a network group establishment method and system for distributed points of sale, wherein an user identification module uses the identification code entered by the user through a network terminal device to search out the corresponding usage authority from the database storing with the group key message categorizing data, the user identification code and the corresponding usage authority; secondly, a message matching module is used to search out the key phrases based on the data content registered for the group establishment entered by the user through the network terminal device, and to search out the group category corresponding to the key phrases from the database; further, a data transmission module is used to search out the corresponding authentication department for group establishment registration from the database according to the user authority searched out by the user identification module and the group category searched out by the message matching module, so as to transmit the content of establishment registration application to each department for authentication; finally, a data query module is used to search out the progress of authentication for establishment registration from the database according to the identification code and query conditions entered by the user through the terminal device, which is displayed on the terminal device for notifying the user about the processing progress.

Description

561383 V. Description of the invention (1) For decentralized terms, methods and systems for judging system sentences] The globalization group of the spheric economy set up production in the industry's tentacles, and swims in the current field of raw materials to the downstream. Only the network responsible for setting up a market for world development due to the indispensable corner of the network can provide the flag. For example, the information is communicated to the Internet community through a user-defined decentralized Operating well, in many corporate economic markets, such as the establishment of labor-funded R & D standards that are relatively low in the region, the establishment of such enterprise group marketing has been less recognized, in order to seize the development of business opportunities, one of the more, enterprise groups, speed And the economic aspect can be used by the Netcom meeting or community function. L Field of invention A kind of system, more detailed Keywords: Road community establishment [Background of invention] With the need to increase the number of companies, companies will become low-cost regional R & D centers. Perhaps based on the introduction of the production process, even if it is a group, in order to think that it is worth knowing the other party group, it is the communication system of different roads and communication groups in different parts of the world. The exchange of information reaches the employee's business base. In order to achieve an automatic environment, the whole world is becoming more and more globally extended. As a routine, in terms of the division of labor with rich scientific and technological resources, the ministry is responsible for planning, manufacturing, or local consumption. It is possible that the network industry group of employees under the fast-applied application party can use email, video stream interoperability methods, and authority and input industry bases. In order to be competitive, due to the source and cost of the region, the development of resources is huge and self-sustaining. However, the enterprise collection that takes a step back must still be in the company. For the enterprise collection, the only way is to pass information through the Internet.

561383 V. Description of the invention (2) As far as social networking sites are concerned, compared to corporate websites that lack social networking sites in the past, they can only publish articles from different backgrounds, different fields and different topics around the world on the same website or On the webpage, from the perspective of knowledge management, such unstructured data presentation is not only a help but a resistance to the growth of employee knowledge. Conversely, the establishment of social networking sites can be used to classify discussion articles of different nature, different topics, or different content. Not only can there be a rule to follow when posting articles, but also a systematic indexing method can be used to retrieve articles. Find the article you want. However, although corporate groups provide employees with the ability to set up social networking sites on corporate websites, the procedures for registering and setting up social networking sites are not familiar to every employee who wants to apply for a social networking site, such as the nature of social networking sites. In terms of classification, there may be a cognitive gap between the applicant and the approver. For example, employees who like to drive off-road four-wheel drive vehicles think that four-wheel drive vehicles should have different specifications of suspension systems to deal with different terrains, and would like to apply for a community website on this topic. It will be classified as outdoor leisure, but in the automotive industry, it may be classified as product technology. When employees apply during the application process, they may have doubts about which category they want to classify. The impact is that the establishment and registration of social networking sites usually requires the approval of many competent units. Among them, there may be differences in the units responsible for review due to different positions and grades of applicants or different themes. For example, the application of the R & D engineer requires the consent of the head of the R & D department and the website administrator, and the head of the R & D department only needs the consent of the website administrator. In addition,

16836.ptd Page 6 561383 V. Description of the invention (3) After the sub-form is sent out, the applicant often cannot track the progress of the application review. For the applicant, if the establishment of the community website is time-effective, it cannot be Grasp the review progress will weaken the function of the social network site. Therefore, if it is not possible to provide an efficient and user-friendly application interface at the beginning of the registration, it will be impossible to fully promote the function of setting up a group website to every level of the corporate group. Perhaps the corporate group will be so invisible Many intangible intellectual property. In summary, how to provide users with a user-friendly way to set up an online community is an issue that needs to be solved urgently. [Objective and Summary of the Invention] In order to solve the shortcomings of the above-mentioned conventional technologies, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and system for establishing an online community in a distributed business base, so that users can only You need to enter the relevant information and description of the community website you want to apply for, you can automatically set the type of the community website, and send the application for setting up an electronic form to the unit responsible for review. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for setting up an online community applied to distributed business bases, so as to provide users with an efficient function of querying and reviewing progress in the process of applying for review of social networking sites. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the network community establishment system applied to the distributed business base of the present invention includes: a system for providing the network community establishment applied to the distributed business base through a network communication system and The network terminal device is connected to each other and provides a network server system for the network terminal device to access data; a store for storing at least a user identification code, a user right corresponding to the identification code, and a social network keyword Classifieds

16836.ptd Page 7 561383 V. Description of the invention " ~ --- materials, counter information,%, audit unit information in the applicant's authority and the category of social networking sites, library, for use based on users The iron input I through the network terminal device I] Shiminzhe t 'retrieves the corresponding usage permission identification module from the database; one is based on the user through the network terminal device Hu Jinsong retrieved the keyword sentence from the application data content of the social networking site, and retrieved the keywords q, corresponding to the user's right line and the application data content from the Erbei database.

~ The information comparison module of the category of the social networking site; one for identifying the user rights retrieved by the user j V tooth $ identification module and the information comparison module; μν $, ^ 像 家 出 之Social network category, from this database retrieves the data of the responsible application review unit corresponding to the two user rights and the social website category, Ya Jiangxi * from μ w 曱 Please send an electronic form to each of these review units for their review Signed data 1 search mode θ · _ ^ Enter ,,,, and, and an identifier and query condition for retrieving from the database according to the identification code and query conditions of the user's unique code through the network terminal device The appraisal progress information of the application of the second knowledge and query conditions and display of the-shell material query module on the terminal device. Further through the online community establishment system applied to decentralized business bases, the method of establishing the online community applied to decentralized business bases is: Shoushan j makes the user identity recognition module based on user input in An online shameful identification code stores a user identity identification code, user rights corresponding to the identification code, social network keyword classification data, and an audit unit corresponding to the applicant's authority and social website category The corresponding usage rights are retrieved from the database of data; secondly, "make the message comparison module retrieve keywords based on the data content registered by the community entered by the user through the network terminal device" and retrieve the data from the data. The corresponding keyword sentence was retrieved from the database

16836.ptd Page 8 561383, the community category of the description of the invention (5) The community category from the identification module is checked by the signing department; finally, the progress of the input knowledge review. Further, the data transmission module is caused to retrieve the corresponding community establishment registration from the database to retrieve the establishment registration according to the user authority retrieved by the user identity and the retrieval category of the message comparison module. The application content is sent to each department to sign the data query module to retrieve the establishment registration from the database according to the user's device and query conditions through the terminal device and display it on the terminal device for the user to know and process Compared to I, Ming, and Zhizhi, a method and system for setting up a social website, through this publication, Γ is a method for setting up a social network for distributed business locations and systems: When users apply for a social website, Just enter the f 6 information and description of the taxi type of the community website you want to apply, and you can automatically make a copy of the social website =, and send the application for the social website to set up an electronic form to be negative = In the process of applying for the review of the social network site, [enables the function of querying the progress of the review. Please refer to Fig. 1, after posting 3—The establishment of the network community in the base is displayed] It shows that the network terminal of the present invention applied to the decentralized business connection function is signed with one of the network communication systems 2 and has a network The road network communication system 2 may be a network and a network terminal device 4 interconnected with each other. The communication mode of the intranet, the intranet, the Internet, and the corporate network system 2 may be an extranet. And the network communication type; the network terminal device 3 and the network analog, wired digital or wireless communication mode communication system 2 and the application of the i-way final knowledge device 4 are used to pass through the network of the government office of the network Community Establishment Department

苐 Page 561383 V. Description of the invention (6) " --- The task of interconnecting data for data transmission can be a personal computer or a laptop computer (NB). In this embodiment, the Network terminal: Set 3 as a personal computer, and the network terminal device 4 as a laptop. The system architecture of the aforementioned network communication system 2 is known, so it will not be described in detail herein. Refer to FIG. 2, which shows the system architecture of the network community establishment system 1 of the present invention applied to decentralized business ^ = As shown in the figure, the network community establishment of the decentralized business base is shown in the figure. System 1 includes a network system 2 0 0, a database 210, a user identification module, a message comparison module 2 3 0, a data transmission module 2 40, and a data query module 2 5 0 . 、 The network server system 2 0 0 provides the application for distributed business bases ^ The network community establishment system 1 connects with the network terminal, device 3, and network terminal device 4 through the network communication system 2 And provide the network terminal device 3 ^ network terminal device 4 in response to the user's instructions or other needs for data access. In this embodiment, the network terminal device 3 and the network terminal device 4 use a web browser (such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigat0r) on the network terminal device. Through the network communication system 2 and through the network server system 2000, it is interconnected with the network community establishment system 1 applied to the knife-type business base. The database 210 provides the application to the decentralized business base. The online community establishment system 1 is used to store the user's user identification code entered by a user from a network terminal device such as a data processing workstation (not shown), the user authority corresponding to the identification code, and the key of the social network site. Word classification information, right

16836.ptd Page 10 561383 V. Description of the invention (7) The information of the review unit and review progress should be based on the applicant's authority and the type of social networking site. In this embodiment, in order to increase the efficiency of data query and retrieval, the database 2 10 may be a relational database. An example of its structure is the user data table 300 shown in Figure 3 (A), which contains data fields such as the user name, account number, password, and usage rights; or as shown in Figure 3 (B) The social website category keyword sentence data table 3 10 shown in the figure includes information fields such as social website category, key magnetic pole key sentence, and so on. Or, as shown in Figure (c), the social website review unit data table 3 2 0 contains user permissions, social network category and review unit and other data blocks. Or, as shown in Figure 3 (D), the audit progress data sheet 3 3 0 contains information such as the name of the messenger, the name of the community and website, the audit progress, and the estimated approval date. Through the establishment of such a relational database, when a user turns into any of the data described in the above, the online community ^ system 1 applied to the distributed business base can quickly find its corresponding data. However, it is necessary to specifically note that, in practice, 'the content should be more clear and detailed, the aforementioned data fields and the data tables to which they belong are just examples, and in addition, each of the data fields The content may also contain other data block lists, but due to space limitations and succinct statements, it only shows some of the information related to the establishment of the online community of ^ = decentralized business locations μ is used for On the other hand, there are also various system architectures of the relational database, such as the technology known to the other party, so it is not described in the text. He Jian is the user identification module 2 2 0, which is based on the identification code input by the user and the network terminal device, and has used the corresponding identification code from the database 2 丨 〇.俾 According to the inspection, you will retrieve the output of the use rights output

561383 V. Description of the invention (8) A signal is sent to the network terminal device, and the corresponding social networking website application webpage screen is generated by the network terminal device for users to apply. In this embodiment, the identification code includes at least an account number and password corresponding to the user name. When a user enters the user name and the corresponding account number and password through a network terminal device, the user's identity is identified. Module 2 2 0 will retrieve the user's usage rights from the database 2 1 0 according to the user name, account number and password to provide the online community establishment system for the distributed business base 1 Determine whether to continue or terminate user operation using the system. The message comparison module 2 3 0 is used to retrieve keyword sentences based on the content of the social networking site application data entered by the user through the network terminal device, and retrieve the corresponding use from the database 2 1 0 The category of social networking site for the right line and the keywords of the application materials. In this embodiment, the message comparison module 230 will fill in relevant information or description content, such as the name of the social networking site, in the fields of the application items in the web page of the social networking site where the user fills in. The comparison of the same keywords or key sentences stored in the database 2 10 in advance in the fields such as character descriptions, etc., where the presets match when there are more than three keyword sentences can be identified as belonging to Social network category. The data transmission module 2 40 is used to identify the user rights retrieved by the user identification module 2 2 0 and the category of social website retrieved by the message comparison module from the database 2 Responsible application review unit information corresponding to the user authority and the category of the social networking site was retrieved in 10, and the application electronic form was sent to each of the review units for their signature. As mentioned earlier,

16836.ptd Page 12 561383 V. Description of the invention (9) The establishment of an online community based on the social networking site Gongerluye of an enterprise that adopts the invention and is applied to system 1 is the user's authority and φ The auditing unit is determined based on the user and ......... Li Shenjing website category is determined to send module 240, that is, once the auditing unit is determined according to the auditing unit, the order of the data transmission and auditing will scarce the user. &, 1㈢3 The application electronic form is transmitted to each of the reviewers, and acknowledges that the information query module 25 of the social network site that has been entered / /, early establishment of the review and approval work. The identification code entered by the terminal device and the user ID are used to retrieve the terminal device through the network corresponding to the identification code and ϋ, ^ 亥, 5 Haibei database 2 1 〇 . … Please review the data and show the information about the condition of the condition. Disperse the “campsite system” through the previous application. The steps of the two-practice method of the Internet agency in the distributed business base are as follows. First, "let f ^ the user identification module 2 2 0 retrieve the corresponding usage right from the database 21 0 according to the identification code entered by the user in a network terminal. Please refer to FIG. 4 (A). As shown in the figure, in this embodiment, when a user enters a website of a side company, a web page for the user to log in will appear. 40 & Enter the user name, account number, and password on the terminal device, and send it after confirmation. The user's identity recognition module 2 2 0 will retrieve the user's permissions. After entering the website, the user can choose as described in Section 4 (B) As shown in the figure, it is a web page 4 10 of a social website service related to work / life. If the user wants to apply for a new group website, check the application option for the new group website, and confirm it and send it. Second, make the message compare module 23 0 according to the user through the network

16836.ptd Page 13 561383 V. Description of Invention (ίο) —---- Check the words and sentences in the data of community establishment and registration entered by the terminal device, and retrieve the corresponding keywords from the database 21G Key categories. According to the previous description, when the user chooses to apply for a new group website and submits a message, the status of the new order as shown in Figure 4 (C) = face 42 0, which includes the community name, website name, and applicant ,, Page ^ date, reviewer, signing date, community category and website description, etc. It is assumed that the user of the application cannot determine the category of his community, and Li = select "automatic judgment" in the category category of the community. Before the confirmation is completed, each of the lean materials will be sent out after the input. At this time, the message comparison module 23 will search for keywords such as the name of the community or the description of the website. This is a keyword sentence. In this embodiment, words such as production, technology, new knowledge, and applications for research and development patents can be said to conform to the aforementioned clause ^. After the keyword sentence of the application content is determined, the message comparison module 2 3 0 will retrieve the community category corresponding to the keyword sentence from the database 2 10, as shown in Figure 3 (B). The community category corresponding to the keyword sentence is "product technology". 'Furthermore, make the data transmission module 2 4 0 according to the user authority retrieved by the user identity recognition module 2 2 0 and the community category retrieved by the message comparison module 2 3 0, since The corresponding community establishment registration and signing department is retrieved in the database 2 丨 0, so as to transmit the content of the establishment registration application to each of the departments for signing. According to the foregoing description, after the message comparison module 2 3 0 determines the category, it will send the judgment message to the data transmission module 2 4 0, and after the data transmission module 2 4 0 receives the message, , Then immediately checked from the database 2 10

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Ask for audit units that correspond to user permissions and community categories. As shown in Figure 3 (), in this embodiment, the review unit corresponding to the user authority is “β” and the social website category is “product technology” is “the head of the department to which the applicant belongs; the head of the R & D department; the community Head of Website Management ". After confirming the review unit, the electronic format form of the application is sequentially transmitted to each of the review units for approval. Finally, the data query module 250 is retrieved from the database 2 10 according to the identification code and query conditions entered by the user through the terminal device, and the progress of setting up the registration review is displayed on the terminal device for use in The user is informed of the processing progress. When the user wants to check the application progress, he can log in to the company's website as described above, and then enter the web page screen 4 3 0 shown in Figure 4 (D), and check the social network for query and approval. After the option is confirmed, it will appear as shown in Figure 4 (E) on the social website application processing progress inquiry page on the day and time 4 4 0. Users can enter relevant information through the network terminal device to Each of the query stops, such as the applicant, community name, website name, and application date, etc., but it is not limited to enter all the stops before the query can be performed. It is not necessary to select only some of them, and of course, keywords Make a query. After the inputted query requirements are confirmed and sent, the data query module 2 50 retrieves the progress content corresponding to the query requirements from the database 2 10 and displays them on a webpage screen. As shown in FIG. 4 (F), in this embodiment, 'the social website application processing progress query result web page screen 4 50, and it shows that the review progress of the social website applied for by the user is r development department The supervisor is under review "and the estimated date of approval is June 28, 2002."

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16836.ptd Page 15 Qin 1383 V. Description of the invention (12) Base I ^: Figure 5 shows the flow of the method for establishing a network and community in a decentralized business point of the present invention. Read the application of the decentralized business license type system ΪΪΓ group establishment system 1 is established to provide the application to the decentralized road terminal o == 2 2 group establishment system 1 through the network communication system and the network, and ZU 〇 and used to Store to, the unique code, corresponding to the identification code, including the user's identity information, corresponding to the applicant's authority and community ^, social network keyword classification and review progress, etc. The audit unit data is in step S 501, and the user is caused to proceed to step S 501. The user enters a network terminal with ==, the identity recognition module 2 2 0 according to the request to obtain the corresponding use rights, ^ Bema from the database 2 1 0 in step S5 0 2 to make the order Step S5 02. Through the network terminal device, the Ma Ma group 2 3 0 according to the user to find out the keyword sentence, and from the database ^ ^ registered data content to check the community type of the sentence, then proceed to step = retrieve pairs The keywords should be in step S503, and the data f, 03 should be used. Approval group retrieved by identity module 2 2 0 2 4 0 Set up registration and signing based on the community category, 彳, ^ authority, and community of the message comparison mode retrieved by the user group 2 30 Department a 'and the data 庠 21〇 retrieved the signature corresponding to each department, and then 9 ^ the content of the establishment registration application is transmitted in step S504: ί :, δ5 ° 4. Rotating through the terminal device 丨: Inquiry mode "5 ° retrieves the progress of setting up the registration review and query conditions from the database 210 according to the user ’s information and displays the progress of the loan on the terminal 210 and displays it on the terminal device for

16836.ptd Page 16 561383 V. Description of the invention (13) The user knows the progress of processing. Through the method and system for establishing an online community applied to a decentralized business base of the present invention, when a user applies for a social website, the user only needs to enter the relevant information and description of the social website to be applied for, and the system can automatically Set the type of the social website, and send the application of the social website to set up an electronic form to the unit responsible for review. In the process of applying for the review of the social website, we will provide users with an efficient inquiry and review progress. Its function. The above are only preferred embodiments of the method and system for establishing a network community in a distributed business base of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the essential technical content of the present invention. The method and system for establishing a network community in a distributed business base of the present invention is substantially defined in the scope of the patent application described below. Any technical entity or method completed by another person is similar to the following: The changes defined in the scope of the patent application are exactly the same, or equivalent changes are considered to be covered by this patent scope.

16836.ptd Page 17 561383 Schematic description [simple schematic description] In the following, the features and effects of the present invention will be further described in detail with preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is an application architecture block Schematic diagram showing the application architecture of the network community establishment system of the present invention applied to decentralized business bases; FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a system architecture used to show the network of the present invention applied to decentralized business bases System architecture of the community establishment system; Figures 3 (A) to 3 (D) are schematic diagrams of applications, which are used to show that the online community establishment system of the present invention is applied to a decentralized business base, and its data base is left out. Architecture; Figures 4 (A) to 4 (F) are application schematic diagrams, which are used to show the online community establishment system of the present invention applied to decentralized business bases. Users apply for community websites and check the approval progress. The daytime web page; and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the flow of the method for establishing an online community in a distributed business base of the present invention. [Symbol] 1 Network community establishment system applied to distributed business bases 2 Network communication system 3 Network terminal device 4 Network terminal device 2 0 0 Network server system 210 Database 2 2 0 User identity Identification module 2 3 0 Message comparison module

16836.ptd Page 18 561383 Schematic description 2 4 0 Data transmission module 2 5 0 Data query module 3 0 0 User data table 310 Social network category keyword sentence data table 3 2 0 Social website audit unit data Table 3 3 0 Audit progress data table 4 0 0 Web page screen 410 Web page screen 42 0 Web page day surface 43 0 Web page day surface 440 Web page day surface 4 5 0 Web page day surface

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Claims (1)

561383 VI. Scope of patent application 1. A method for establishing a network community in a decentralized business base to provide employees of a company with a decentralized business base with a network terminal device through a network communication system Group website application and inquiry. The application information of the social website is stored in a database. The database also stores the user identification code and its corresponding usage right data. It should be used by decentralized business offices. The method for establishing a group includes: making a user identity identification module retrieve the corresponding usage right from the database according to the identification code entered by a user in a network terminal device; making a message comparison module based on the user through the The keyword sentence is retrieved from the data of the community establishment registration inputted by the network terminal device, and the community category corresponding to the keyword sentence is retrieved from the database; and a data transmission module is configured to identify the model based on the user identity. The user permissions retrieved by the group and the community categories retrieved by the message matching module retrieve the pairs from the database. The community establishment registration and signing department is used to transmit the content of the establishment registration application to each of the departments for signing and order a data query module from the database according to the identification code and query conditions entered by the user through the terminal device. The progress of the registration review is retrieved and displayed on the terminal device for the user to know the processing progress. 2. The method according to item 1 of the patent application, wherein the network terminal device 16836.ptd Page 20 561383 6. Scope of patent application It can be any one of personal computer, notebook computer, personal digital assistant and mobile communication device. 3. For the method of applying for the first item of the patent scope, wherein the network communication system is any one of the Internet, an intranet, an intranet, and a wireless communication system . 4. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the network communication system is any one of a wired communication system and a wireless communication system. 5. For the method of applying for the scope of the first patent, the database contains the classification information of the keywords of the social networking site, the information of the audit unit corresponding to the applicant's authority and the category of the social networking site, and the audit progress data. 6. For the method of applying for the first item of the patent scope, wherein the database is an associated database. 7. An online community establishment system applied to decentralized business bases to provide employees of enterprises with decentralized business bases with a network terminal device to apply for social networking sites through a network communication system and Inquiry, the network community establishment system applied to the distributed business base includes: a network server system, which provides the network community establishment system applied to the distributed business base through the network communication system and the network terminal The devices are interconnected and provide the network terminal device with a response to the user's instructions or other needs for data access; a database that provides the network community establishment system applied to the distributed business base for storage and use The user's identity code input by a network terminal device, the user right corresponding to the code 16836.ptd Page 21 561383 VI. Limits on the scope of patent applications and application information on social networking sites; A user identification module is used to retrieve from the database according to the identification code entered by the user through the network terminal device. The access right corresponding to the identification code is retrieved from the network, and a signal is output to the network terminal device based on the retrieved usage right, so that the corresponding network website application webpage is generated for use by the network terminal device. A message comparison module, which is used to retrieve keywords based on the content of the social networking site application data entered by the user through the network terminal device, and retrieve the corresponding user from the database Categories of social network sites with rights and keywords for application data content; a data transmission module, which is used to retrieve the user rights retrieved by the user identity recognition module and the information retrieved by the message comparison module Social network category, retrieves the application review unit information corresponding to the user rights and social website category from the database, and applies the application Sub-forms are sent to each of the review units for their approval; and a data query module is used to retrieve from the database corresponding to the database according to the identification code and query conditions entered by the user through the network terminal device The application review progress information of the identification code and query conditions are displayed on the terminal device. 8. The system of claim 7 in which the network terminal device is any one of a personal computer, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant, and a mobile communication device. 16836.ptd Page 22 561383 6. Scope of patent application 9. For the system of scope 7 of patent application, among which, the network communication system is the Internet, intranet, intranet (Extranet) and wireless communication systems. 10. The system according to item 7 of the scope of patent application, wherein the network communication system is any of a wired communication system and a wireless communication system. 1 1. If the system of item 7 of the scope of patent application, the database contains the keyword classification information of the social website, the audit unit information corresponding to the applicant's authority and the category of the social website, and the audit progress data. 12. The system according to item 7 of the scope of patent application, wherein the database is an associated database. 16836.ptd Page 23