System and method for providing social network service and for setting relationship between users

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9560618-B2
Application number	US-201213599386-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2012
Priority date	Aug 31, 2011
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a system for providing social network service (SNS) and a method for setting relationship between users of mobile terminals. The system may include a reception unit to receive location information on a user terminal allowing the location information to be shared in response to a friend request from the user terminal, a user terminal identification unit to identify at least one other user terminal present within a preset distance based on the location information on the user terminal and allows location information to be shared, a user information transmission unit to identify and send user information on the other user terminal to the user terminal, and a relationship setting unit to set a relationship between users of the user terminal and the other user terminal when the user information on the other user terminal is selected in the user terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program, when executed by a computer, to perform a method including the steps of:
receiving, location information of a user terminal in response to a friend request from the user terminal;
identifying at least one other user terminal which is present within a preset distance, based on the location information on the user terminal and sending a friend request;
identifying and sending user information on the at least one other user terminal to the user terminal; and
setting a relationship between users of the user terminal and the at least one other user terminal when the user information of the at least one other user terminal is selected in the user terminal,
wherein the friend request is made when a preset region on a display of the user terminal is touched,
the preset region is displayed on the display according to controlling of an application installed in the user terminal,
a center of the preset region corresponds to location of the user terminal, and
the user information of the at least one other user terminal is displayed on the display of the user terminal based on a distance between a location of the at least one other user terminal and the location of the user terminal.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the setting step sets relationships between a user of the user terminal and entire users of the at least one other terminal when the user information on the at least one other user terminal is displayed on the display and the preset region is touched again.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the preset distance comprises a distance set by a user of the user terminal through an application installed in the user terminal, and the receiving step receives information about the distance set through the application from the user terminal.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the setting step stores user information on the user terminal and the user information on the at least one other user terminal associated with each respective terminal to set the relationship.

5. A relationship setting method performed by a user terminal operated by an installed application, the relationship setting method comprising:
sending, by the user terminal, a friend request and location information to a server; receiving user information on other user terminals from the server; displaying the user information on a display;
sending user information on at least one other user terminal selected by a user among the displayed user information to the server; and
setting a relationship between the user terminal and the at least one user terminal, wherein the at least one other user terminal sends a friend request to other user terminals present within a preset distance from location based on the location information,
wherein the friend request is made when a preset region on the display of the user terminal is touched,
the preset region is displayed on the display according to controlling of an application installed in the user terminal,
a center of the preset region corresponds to the location of the user terminal, and
the displaying the user information on the other user terminal on the display of the user terminal is based on a distance of the user terminal and the other user terminals.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the server sets relationships between the user terminal and entire other user terminals displayed on the display when the preset region is touched again.

Assignees

• Shin Jungho
• Kim Seong Hoon
• Lee Jungmin
• Choi Bo Yoon
• Line Corp

Inventors

• Shin Jungho
• Kim Seong Hoon
• Lee Jungmin
• Choi Bo Yoon

Classifications

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• H04L51/32

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/021 Primary

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• H04W64/00 Primary

  Locating users or terminals {or network equipment} for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title