HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER

• US 20110047234A1
• Filed: 10/29/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mekiki Creates Company Limited (Mekiki Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Mekiki Creates Company Limited (Mekiki Company Limited)
• Inventors: DEGUCHI, Hikaru, Ninomiya, Kenichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,135,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2291 User-Defined Types; Storage management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2425 Iterative querying; Query formulation based on the results of a preceding query
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2471 Distributed queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units 2 and 3 including sections for receiving personal data of a new member, and a second data processing unit including a section for storing the received personal data. The second data processing unit stores the personal data of the new member in correlation to an existing member when the existing member confirms the new member.

Claims

1. An apparatus including a server coupled to a communication network configured to establish and update relationships between members registered to a relationships registering system coupled to the communication network, the apparatus comprising:

a database configured to store personal attribute information, including identification information of the members, and relationship coefficients indicating respective degrees of relationship between the members;

a data receiver configured to receive, from a first member searching the database, one or more key words including the identification information of a second member;

a data retriever configured to retrieve from the database, in response to the one or more keywords, personal attribute information of a third member that has a relationship coefficient indicating a direct relationship with the second member; and

a data sender configured to communicate via the communication network the retrieved personal attribute information of the third member to the first member.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the personal attribute information further includes specialized fields of the members, and the data retriever is further configured to retrieve a specialized field of the third member from the database.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the personal attribute information stored in the database further includes specialized fields of the members, the one or more key words further include a specialized field of the second member, and the data retriever retrieves the personal attribute information of a fourth member having the specialized field specified by the one or more key words.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more key words further include a target relationship coefficient, the target relationship coefficient being a number equal to a relationship coefficient indicating the degree of relationship between the second member and at least the third member.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more key words further include a target relationship coefficient, the target relationship coefficient is a range including a relationship coefficient indicating the degree of relationship between the second member and at least the third member.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data receiver is further configured to receive, from the first member, the identification information of the first member, and the third member also has a relationship coefficient indicating a direct relationship with the first member.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data receiver is further configured to receive, from the first member, identification information of the first member, the data retriever is further configured to retrieve from the database, in response to the received identification information of the first member, personal attribute information of a fourth member that has relationship coefficients indicating a direct relationship with both the first member and the third member, and the data sender is further configured to communicate via the communication network the retrieved personal attribute information of the fourth member to the first member.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a message communicator configured to communicate to the third member a first message indicating that the first member wishes to establish a direct relationship with the third member, and to communicate a second message to the first member indicating that the third member has accepted the direct relationship with the first member,

wherein the database is further configured to update a relationship coefficient indicating the degree of relationship between the first member and the third member once the message communicator communicates the second message.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the database is further configured to update the relationship coefficients indicating the respective degrees of relationship between the first member and the members related to the third member, and the relationship coefficients indicating the respective degrees of relationship between the third member and the members related to the first member.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data receiver is further configured to receive the personal attribute information of a prospective member and an identification of an existing member from the prospective member, the data sender is further configured to provide the existing member with the received personal attribute information, and the database is further configured to store in the database the received personal attribute information of the prospective member in response to a confirmation message from the existing member.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data receiver is further configured to receive the personal attribute information of a prospective member from an existing member, the data sender is further configured to provide the prospective member with the received personal attribute information, and the database is further configured to store in the database the received personal attribute information of the prospective member in response to a confirmation message from the prospective member.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the identification information of the members comprises at least any one of a member name, a member identification code, and a member email address.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more key words are included in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first message and the second message comprise protocol emails.

15. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first message and the second message comprise any electronic communication of information.

16. An apparatus including a server coupled to a communication network configured to establish and update relationships between members registered to a relationships registering system coupled to the communication network, the apparatus comprising:

a database configured to store identification information and relationships of the members;

a data receiver configured to receive, from a first member, identification information of the first member and a second member stored in the database;

a data retriever configured to retrieve from the database, in response to the received identification information of the first member and the second member, identification information of the members that are directly related to both the first member and the second member; and

a data sender configured to communicate via the communication network the retrieved identification information of a third member that is directly related to both the first member and the second member.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the database is further configured to store relationship coefficients indicating degrees of relationship between the members.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the data receiver is further configured to receive from the first member a target relationship coefficient indicating a direct relationship with the first member and the second member, and the data retriever is further configured to retrieve, in response to both the target relationship coefficient and the received identification information of the first member and the second member, the identification information of the members that are directly related to both the first member and the second member.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the identification information stored in the database comprises at least any one of a member name, a member identification code, and a member email address.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the received identification information of the first member and a second member are included in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.

21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the received identification information of the first member and a second member are included in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.