ONLINE HUMAN NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STIMULATING USERS TO BUILD VARIOUS FACES OF RELATION
First Claim
1. Method for connecting users in a network, the method comprising the steps of:
- maintaining a first database, the first database containing profiles of a plurality of users in a network;
maintaining a second database, the second database containing relationship index between some of the users wherein the relationship index is determined based, at least in part, upon degree of correspondence relationship between the users;
forming a social network, the network comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links between at least some of the nodes, in association with the relationship index stored in the second database, wherein at least some of the nodes are the users and each of the links is a virtual connection path between two users who have correspondence relationship;
upon receipt of a request from a first user, searching for at least one route connecting the first user to a second user in the social network based, at least in part, upon said existing links and the relationship index of the links; and
evaluating each of the searched routes based, at least in part, upon the relationship indexes of the links which form said respective searched routes.
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Abstract
The present invention provides the steps of maintaining a first database containing profiles of a plurality of users in a network; maintaining a second database containing relationship index between some of the users wherein the relationship index is determined based upon degree of correspondence relationship between the users; forming a social network comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links between at least some of the nodes, in association with the relationship index stored in the second database; upon receipt of a request from a first user, searching for at least one route connecting the first user to a second user in the social network based, at least in part, upon said existing links and the relationship index of the links; and evaluating each of the searched routes based, at least in part, upon the relationship indexes of the links which form said respective searched routes.
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22 Claims
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1. Method for connecting users in a network, the method comprising the steps of:
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maintaining a first database, the first database containing profiles of a plurality of users in a network; maintaining a second database, the second database containing relationship index between some of the users wherein the relationship index is determined based, at least in part, upon degree of correspondence relationship between the users; forming a social network, the network comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links between at least some of the nodes, in association with the relationship index stored in the second database, wherein at least some of the nodes are the users and each of the links is a virtual connection path between two users who have correspondence relationship; upon receipt of a request from a first user, searching for at least one route connecting the first user to a second user in the social network based, at least in part, upon said existing links and the relationship index of the links; and evaluating each of the searched routes based, at least in part, upon the relationship indexes of the links which form said respective searched routes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. Method for connecting users in a network, the method comprising the steps of:
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maintaining a database, the database containing profiles of a plurality of users in a network and relationship index between users in the network wherein the relationship index is determined based, at least in part, upon degree of correspondence relationship between the users; storing existing links in associated with stored relationship index of the existing links which were previously created between two nodes due to the correspondence relationship of the respective two nodes, wherein the nodes are the users and each of the links is a virtual connection path between two users who have correspondence relationship; upon receipt of a request from a first user, searching for at least one route connecting the first user to a second user based, at least in part, upon said existing links and the relationship indexes of the links; and evaluating each of the searched routes based, at least in part, upon the relationship indexes of the links which form said respective searched routes. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A social network management system comprising:
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a first database containing profiles of a plurality of users in a network; a second database containing relationship index between some of the users wherein the relationship index is determined based, at least in part, upon degree of correspondence relationship between the users; and a search module configured for searching for at least one route connecting a first user to a second user in the social network based, at least in part, upon links which connect nodes and the relationship indexes of the links and for evaluating each of the searched routes based, at least in part, upon the relationship indexes of the links which form said respective searched routes, wherein at least some of the nodes are the users and each of the links is a virtual connection path between two users who have correspondence relationship.
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