Method And Apparatus For Associating User With Friend In Network Community

• US 20110238701A1
• Filed: 06/07/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Cao, Shixiong, Liang, Zhu
• Application Number:
  US13/154,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238701A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An apparatus for associating a user and a friend in a network community. The apparatus extracts a property element from user personal information and searches for resources related to the property element in a network community. The apparatus also determines a friend to be recommended according to the resources, and associates the friend with the user.

Claims

1. An apparatus for associating a user with a friend in a network community, comprising:

an extracting unit, the extracting unit extracting a property element from user personal information;

a searching unit, the searching unit searching for resources related to the property element in a network community; and

an associating unit, the associating unit determining a friend to be recommended according to the resources found by the searching unit, and associate the friend with the user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user personal information comprises at least one of a user personal profile and contents published by the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user personal information comprises an interest item of the user, and the interest item records information contents in which the user is interested;

and

the extracting unit allocates priorities to the information contents recorded in the interest item in the user personal information, and determine information contents with the highest priority as the property element to be extracted currently.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

a defining unit automatically appending a definitive to the property element extracted by the extracting unit, and sending the property element with the definitive to the searching unit;

the searching unit taking the received property element with the definitive as a key word, searching for resources containing the key word in the network community or searching for resources which contains the key word and is published within a predefined period in the network community.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the resources comprise a network log.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the associating unit performs text relativity analysis for the resources found by the searching unit and determines a friend with the relativity reaching a relativity threshold as the friend to be recommended.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the associating unit lists the friend to be recommended in a recommendation list and displays the recommendation list on a user interface.

8. A method for associating a user with a friend in a network community, comprising:

extracting a property element from user personal information;

searching for resources related to the property element in a network community; and

determining a friend to be recommended according to the resources found and associating the friend with the user.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user personal information comprises at least one of a user personal profile and contents published by the user.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the user personal information comprises an interest item of the user, and the interest item records information contents in which the user is interested;

the extracting further comprises;

allocating priorities to the information contents recorded in the user interest item in the user personal information; and

determining information contents with the highest priority as the property element to be extracted currently.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

automatically appending a definitive to the extracted property element; and

the searching further comprises;

taking the property element with the definitive as a key word and searching for resources containing the key word in the network community;

or

taking the property element with the definitive as a key word and searching for resources which contains the key word and is published within a predefined period in the network community.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the resources comprise a network log.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising configuring a relativity threshold;

and

the determining comprises performing text relativity analysis for the resources found and determining a friend with the relativity reaching the relativity threshold as the friend to be recommended.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein associating the friend to the user comprises listing the friend to be recommended in a recommendation list, and displaying the recommendation list on a user interface.