APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECODING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT SHARING SERVICE

• US 20170054771A1
• Filed: 08/15/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LY Corp. (A Holdings Corp.), Z Intermediate Global Corporation
• Original Assignee: LINE Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SHIN, Ick Hyun, JO, Su Min
• Granted Patent: US 10,447,743 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• 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 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A method of providing a content sharing service, the method includes receiving, from a first user, a content registration request including first content; generating identification (ID) information of the first content; storing the first content and ID information in a content storage unit; generating an index update command for updating an index of each of other users having a first relationship with the first user by using the ID information of the first content; adding the ID information of the first content to the indices of each of the other users, based on the index update command, wherein each of the indices of the other users is stored in an index storage unit; reading content stored in the content storage unit based on ID information of content included in an index of the second user; and providing a news feed including the first content to the second user.

Claims

1. A method of providing a content sharing service, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first user, a content registration request including first content;

generating identification (ID) information of the first content;

storing the first content and the ID information of the first content in a content storage unit;

generating an index update command for updating an index of each of other users having a first relationship with the first user by using the ID information of the first content;

processing the index update command by adding the ID information of the first content to the indices of each of the other users, based on the index update command, wherein each of the indices of the other users is stored in an index storage unit;

receiving a news feed provision request from a second user;

reading content stored in the content storage unit based on ID information of content included in an index of the second user; and

providing a news feed including the first content to the second user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing of the index update command comprises:

when a number of the other users having the first relationship with the first user is higher than a pre-set number of unit subscribers, splitting the index update command into a plurality of index update commands and storing the plurality of index update commands in a queue; and

adding the ID information of the content to the index of each of the other users stored in the index storage unit, according to the plurality of index update commands stored in the queue.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the index update command in a queue after the generating of the index update command,

wherein the processing of the index update command includes processing the index update command in accordance with an order in which the index update command was stored in the queue.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the index update command includes ID information of the first user and the ID information of the first content, or includes ID information of each of subscribers having the first relationship with the first user and the ID information of the first content.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adding the ID information of the first content to an index of the first user after the generating ID information of the first content and the storing the first content and the ID information of the first content,

the index of the first user being stored in the index storage unit.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the other users having the first relationship with the first user are users subscribed to a channel including content uploaded by the first user.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

matching a plurality of pieces of content and a plurality of pieces of ID information in a one-to-one manner; and

storing the matched plurality of pieces of content and plurality of pieces of ID information in the content storage unit in the one-to-one manner,

the reading content stored in the content storage unit including,

reading, from the content storage unit, content matching the ID information of the content, the ID information of the first content being included in the index of the second user.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

storing indices of each of users subscribed to the content sharing service, respectively, in the index storage unit,

ID information of content registered by other users being listed in the indices of users from among the users subscribed to the content sharing service.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein for a first index stored in the index storage unit, ID information stored in the first index is listed in an order corresponding to an order in which content which the ID information stored in the first index identifies was registered.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the news feed is a screen in which first content is listed in an order, with respect to other content, that corresponds to an order, with respect to ID information of the other content, in which the ID information of the first content is stored in the index of the second user.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:

receiving, from a first user, a content registration request including first content;

generating identification (ID) information of the first content;

storing the first content and the ID information of the first content in a content storage unit;

generating an index update command for updating an index of each of other users having a first relationship with the first user by using the ID information of the first content;

processing the index update command by adding the ID information of the first content to the indices of each of the other users, based on the index update command, wherein each of the indices of the other users is stored in an index storage unit;

receiving a news feed provision request from a second user;

reading content stored in the content storage unit based on ID information of content included in an index of the second user; and

providing a news feed including the first content to the second user.

12. An apparatus for providing a content sharing service, the apparatus comprising:

memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instructions such that the one or more processors are configured to,

receive, from a first user, a content registration request including first content,

generate identification (ID) information of the first content,

store the first content and the ID information of the first content in a content storage unit,

generate an index update command for updating an index of each of other users having a first relationship with the first user by using the ID information of the first content,

add the ID information of the first content to the indices of each of the other users, based on the index update command, wherein each of the indices of the other users is stored in an index storage unit,

receiving a news feed provision request from a second user,

read content stored in the content storage unit based on ID information of content included in an index of the second user, and

provide a news feed including the first content to the second user.