Method and system for providing extended social network service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9026593-B2
Application number	US-201113330159-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2011
Priority date	Aug 18, 2011
Publication date	May 5, 2015
Grant date	May 5, 2015

Abstract

Present invention provides a method and system for providing an extended social network service (SNS), the method and system enabling a user logged in an SNS to receive information in the form of newsfeed not only from users who have a friend relationship with the logged-in user in the SNS but also from users who have an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user through the friend relationship. Present invention also provide a method and system for providing an extended SNS, the method and system adding information about a friend relationship-based connection path between a user logged in an SNS and each user who has an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user to content shared between them, so that the reliability of the shared content can be determined.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of providing a social network service (SNS), the method comprising:
designating at least some of users, who have an acquaintance relationship with a user logged in the SNS, as content providers for the logged-in user; and
providing a content in the form of a newsfeed, which is uploaded to the SNS by the content providers of the logged-in user, to the logged-in user,
wherein one or more users connect two users who have the acquaintance relationship, through friend relationships in the SNS,
wherein the designating of the at least some of the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user as the content providers comprises designating users, whose degree of trust with the logged-in user is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, as the content providers from among the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user, and
wherein the degree of trust is calculated by:

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wherein X 1 is the logged-in user, X n is an acquaintance of X 1 , α k is an impact factor indicating the degree of closeness between X 1 and X k+l , and m is a weight given to a shortest social distance between acquaintances.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the designating of the at least some of the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user as the content providers comprises designating users, who chose a specific area as a current location, as the content providers.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the designating of the at least some of the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user as the content providers comprises designating users, whose social distance from the logged-in user is equal to or less than a value set by the logged-in user, as the content providers.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the providing of the content, which is uploaded to the SNS by the content providers, to the logged-in user in the form of the newsfeed comprises adding information about a connection path between the logged-in user and each of the content providers to content provided to the logged-in user in the form of a newsfeed.

5. A method of providing a social network service (SNS), the method comprising:
designating at least some of users, who have an acquaintance relationship with a user logged in the SNS, as content providers for the logged-in user; and
providing a content in the form of a newsfeed, which is uploaded to the SNS by the content providers of the logged-in user, to the logged-in user,
wherein one or more users connect two users who have the acquaintance relationship, through friend relationships in the SNS, and
wherein the designating of the at least some of the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user as the content providers comprises designating users, who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user through a specific user, as the content providers, wherein the specific user serves as a connector and is one of users who have a friend relationship with the logged-in user.

Assignees

• Park Kyu-In
• Park Jong-Tae
• Kyungpook Nat Univ Ind Acad

Inventors

• Park Kyu-In
• Park Jong-Tae

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q50/01 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q10/10 Primary

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06Q10/48

  using social graphs · CPC title

• G06Q10/42

  Determination of affinities or common interests between users · CPC title