SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OFFLINE BASED SIMPLE SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE

• US 20110138003A1
• Filed: 12/07/2010
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: YOON, Sunghyun, Lee, Soon Seok, Kim, Young Boo
• Application Number:
  US12/962,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20110138003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

In order to provide an offline-based social network service from a social network service system to a plurality of terminals, an online history identifier corresponding to an offline event is transmitted to a first terminal when an online history identifier creation request message is received from the first terminal that creates the offline events among the plurality of terminals. a participant registration confirming message is transmitted to the first terminal when information on a participant list including a second terminal is received from the first terminal, and the created online history identifier is transmitted to the second terminal, thereby providing the offline-based social network service to the first terminal and the second terminal.

Claims

1. A system for providing an offline-based social network service comprising:

an event creation/termination confirming unit for confirming whether an offline event is created or not and creating an online history corresponding to the created offline event, and receiving a message of informing termination of an offline event and outputting the received message in order to terminate an online history of the corresponding offline event;

an identifier managing unit for generating an online history identifier to create an online history corresponding to a created offline event when the event creation/end confirming unit confirms that the offline event is created;

an information managing unit for receiving event information from terminals participating in a plurality of offline events corresponding to a plurality of created online histories and generating termination information that informs termination of a corresponding online history when receiving the message from the event creation/termination confirming unit; and

a participant managing unit for managing terminal information of participants of an offline event.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an authentication unit for authenticating an online history access permission of a terminal that requests an online history after the offline event ends and transferring an online history to the terminal according to the authentication result.

3. A terminal for receiving a social network service from a social network service system comprising:

an identifier issue request unit for requesting the social network service system to issue an online history identifier in order to create an online history corresponding to a created offline event;

a participant information registration unit for transferring information on participant terminals of the created offline event to the social network service system; and

a history update unit for updating an online history by transferring offline event progress information generated during the offline event.

4. The terminal of claim 3, further comprising:

a history request unit for requesting an event history stored in the social network service system after the offline event ends and receiving the requested event history.

5. A method for providing an offline-based social network service from a social network service system to a plurality of terminals, comprising:

receiving an online history identifier creation request message from a first terminal that creates an offline event among the plurality of terminals;

creating an online history identifier corresponding the offline event and transmitting the created online history identifier to the first terminal;

transmitting a participant registration confirming message to the first terminal when receiving participant list information including second terminal information on a second terminal participating in the offline event from the first terminal and transmitting the created online history identifier to the second terminal; and

providing an offline-based social network service to the first terminal and the second terminal.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

after the providing an offline-based social network service,

receiving from the first terminal an online history termination request message that informs termination of an offline event; and

transmitting an online history termination confirming message to the first terminal and the second terminal.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

the transmitting an online history termination confirming message,

authenticating whether a terminal transmitting an online history request message is allowed to access an online history or not when receiving the online history request message from at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal;

providing an online history to the terminal that transmits the online history request message when the terminal is an allowed terminal.

8. A method for receiving an offline-based social network service at a plurality of terminals from a social network service system, comprising:

at a first terminal creating an offline event among the plurality of terminals, requesting the social network service system to create an online history identifier for the created offline event;

providing a participant list of the created offline event when receiving an online history identifier from the social network service system;

receiving a participant registration confirming message for the participant list from the social network service system; and

updating an online history by transmitting information on an offline event to the social network service system.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

after the updating an online history,

at the first terminal, transmitting an online history termination request message to the social network service system after the offline event ends; and

receiving an online history termination confirming message from the social network service system.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

after the receiving a participant registration confirming message for the participant list from the social network service system,

at a second terminal confirmed to be registered as a participant among the plurality of terminals, receiving the online history identifier from the social network service system.