Apparatus for providing social network service using relationship of ontology and method thereof

• US 8,463,812 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Issued: 06/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Jung-Tae
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Wilson
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, THUY T
• Application Number:
  US12/971,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20110153665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 707/776
• US Class Current: 707/778
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services

Abstract

Provided are an apparatus for providing a social network service using the relationship of ontology and a method thereof. The apparatus includes: an ontology storage unit storing social ontology defining relationship information between a user and a social network subscriber, service ontology defining position and relationship information of services, and tag ontology defining tag information related to information included in the social ontology and the service ontology; when a service request is inputted from the user, an ontology analysis unit retrieving a tag corresponding to the user'"'"'s current position and the service request factor by using the relationship of the ontologies stored in the ontology storage unit; a service processing unit extracting the corresponding service on the basis of the retrieved tag information; and a service providing unit providing the user with the extracted service.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a social network service using the relationship of ontology, comprising:

a processor, comprising;

an ontology storage unit storing social ontology defining relationship information between a user and a social network subscriber, service ontology defining position and relationship information of services, and tag ontology defining tag information related to information included in the social ontology and the service ontology;

an ontology analysis unit retrieving a tag corresponding to the user'"'"'s current position and a service request factor by using the relationship of the ontologies stored in the ontology storage unit when the service request factor is inputted from the user;

a service processing unit extracting the corresponding service on the basis of information of the retrieved tag; and

a service providing unit providing the user with the extracted service,

wherein the social ontology includes at least one of user'"'"'s personal information, the user'"'"'s current positional information, and the relationship information between the user and the social network subscriber,

wherein the ontology analysis unit retrieves relationship tag information of a social network subscriber corresponding to the service request factor among the relationship information with the social network subscriber defined in the social ontology,

wherein the service ontology includes at least one of the information on the services, and related positional information and relationship information of the services,

wherein the ontology analysis unit retrieves relationship tag information of a service corresponding to the user'"'"'s current position by comparing the user'"'"'s current position with the related positional information of the services defined in the service ontology,

wherein a social network is formed between the user and the social network subscriber in a location of the user'"'"'s current position by linking using the social ontology, the service ontology and the tag ontology,

wherein the tag ontology includes at least one of the tag information on the information included in the social ontology and the service ontology, and the relationship information between the tags, and

further comprising an information collecting unit collecting the user'"'"'s current positional information when the service request factor is inputted from the user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the ontology analysis unit retrieves relationship tag information of a service corresponding to the service request factor among the information on the services defined in the service ontology.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s current positional information is GPS information detected by a GPS module.