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ONLINE HUMAN NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STIMULATING USERS TO BUILD VARIOUS FACES OF RELATION

  • US 20080147884A1
  • Filed: 01/09/2008
  • Published: 06/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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