LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20150326624A1
• Filed: 05/08/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SINGH, Satnam, JAIN, Gaurav Kumar, RAJENDRAN, Balamurali Andiyakkal
• Granted Patent: US 10,075,822 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

A social community management method includes: setting a group including a plurality of mobile devices, based on a location; determining common interest information shared by users of the plurality of mobile devices included in the group; creating a social community for communication of the users based on the determined common interest information; and transmitting information on the created social community to the plurality of mobile devices.

Claims

1. A social community management method comprising:

setting a group including a plurality of mobile devices, based on a location;

determining common interest information shared by users of the plurality of mobile devices included in the group;

creating a social community for communication of the users based on the determined common interest information; and

transmitting information on the created social community to the plurality of mobile devices.

2. The social community management method of claim 1, wherein the setting of the group comprises setting a geographical area associated with locations of the plurality of mobile devices, and

the geographical area is a virtual area where the plurality of mobile devices subjected to the creation of the social community are included.

3. The social community management method of claim 2, wherein the setting of the geographical area comprises:

selecting a wireless LAN service area where a same wireless access point is used; and

determining whether a density of the plurality of mobile devices within the wireless LAN service area is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

4. The social community management method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the common interest information comprises:

gathering interest information of the users from a social network service (SNS) server or at least one of the plurality of mobile devices; and

determining the common interest information based on the gathered information.

5. The social community management method of claim 4, wherein the gathering of the interest information comprises gathering text data from the SNS server or at least one of the plurality of mobile devices and extracting keywords representing the interest information by applying topic modeling to the gathered text data, and

the determining of the common interest information comprises finding a common keyword by comparing the extracted keywords.

6. The social community management method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the social community comprises generating online space where the users chat with one another or share files with one another.

7. The social community management method of claim 2, further comprising removing the created social community when a density of the mobile devices within the geographical area is equal to or less than a threshold value.

8. The social community management method of claim 7, wherein the removing of the social community comprises:

setting a new geographical area by merging other geographical areas located within a predetermined distance from a perimeter of the geographic area; and

removing the social community when a density of the mobile devices located within the newly set geographical area is less than the threshold value.

9. The social community management method of claim 2, further comprising, when any one of the plurality of mobile devices deviates from the geographical area, transmitting the information on the created social community to the mobile devices other than the mobile device that deviates from the geographical area.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

10. A social community management apparatus comprising:

a storage configured to store data about a group including a plurality of mobile devices based on a location;

a controller configured to set the group, determine common interest information shared by users of the plurality of mobile devices located within the set group, and create a social community for communication of the users based on the determined common interest information; and

a communication interface configured to transmit information on the created social community to the plurality of mobile devices.

11. The social community management apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controller sets a geographical area associated with locations of the plurality of mobile devices, the storage stores data about the geographical area, and

the geographical area is a virtual area where the plurality of mobile devices subjected to the creation of the social community are included.

12. The social community management apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller selects a wireless LAN service area where a same wireless access point is used, and determines whether a density of the plurality of mobile devices within the wireless LAN service area is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

13. The social community management apparatus of claim 10, wherein the communication interface gathers interest information of the users from a social network service (SNS) server or at least one of the plurality of mobile devices;

and

the controller determines the common interest information based on the gathered information.

14. The social community management apparatus of claim 13, wherein the communication interface gathers text data from the SNS server or at least one of the plurality of mobile devices, and

the controller extracts keywords representing the interest information by applying topic modeling to the gathered text data, and finds a common keyword by comparing the extracted keywords.

15. The social community management apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controller generates online space where the users chat with one another or share files with one another.

16. The social community management apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller removes the created social community when a density of the mobile devices located within the geographical area is equal to or less than a threshold value.

17. The social community management apparatus of claim 16, wherein the controller sets a new geographical area by merging other geographical areas located within a predetermined distance from a perimeter of the geographic area, and removes the social community when a density of the mobile devices located within the newly set geographical area is less than the threshold value.

18. The social community management apparatus of claim 11, wherein when any one of the plurality of mobile devices deviates from the geographical area, the controller transmits the information on the created social community to the mobile devices other than the mobile device that deviates from the geographical area.

19. A method of using a social community, the method comprising:

transmitting location information of a first mobile device;

receiving information on a social community created based on common interest information shared by a user of the first mobile device and users of a plurality of mobile devices including a second mobile device within a geographical area set based on the location information;

displaying information on the social community on the first mobile device; and

communicating with the second mobile device by using the received information on the social community.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of claim 19.

20. A device comprising:

a communication interface configured to transmit location information of a first mobile device to a server and receive information on a social community from the server;

a display configured to display the information on the social community on the first mobile device; and

a controller,

wherein the social community is created based on common interest information shared by a user of the first mobile device and users of a plurality of mobile devices including a second mobile device within a geographical area set based on the location information, and

the controller controls the communication interface to communicate with the second mobile device by using the received information on the social community.