Automatic community generation system and method on network

• US 20030154213A1
• Filed: 12/06/2002
• Published: 08/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jong-Sun Ahn
• Original Assignee: Jong-Sun Ahn
• Inventors: Ahn, Jong-Sun
• Application Number:
  US10/297,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20030154213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/103X
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic community generation system and method with hierarchical data structure. The automatic community generation system receives user'"'"'s information through the network. At least one community is generated automatically according to the user'"'"'s information. A major or area community can be located at top level of a hierarchical data structure referring to communities. A web page of a community includes link data, image data or university data and the data are constructed in predetermined position of the community web page. A user can select at least one community for working. The community generation system selects a private web data from the user'"'"'s information. The private web data are appeared in the community web page to be entered by the user. The private web data or addresses of them are stored in database. At least one user'"'"'s web page is generated from user'"'"'s information and specified information of the community to be entered by the user. At least one user'"'"'s web page is located within at least one web page of community.

Claims

1. An automatic community generation method for generating mutually distinguishable communities by constructing the communities, which are communized by a plurality of users via a network, with a hierarchical structure, said automatic community generation method comprising the steps of:

locating a major department or an area at a top level;

constructing a hierarchical data structure based upon the major department by locating category information for the major department, the area or the school at the lower level in accordance with the contents located at the top level;

generating a web page for a major community for at least one users to utilize by composing a specified form from at least one selected from a group consisting of link information related to the major department, major-related image and major-related news;

receiving user information from at least one users connected via the network, wherein, the user information includes at least one selected from a group consisting of the major department and the area; and

assigning the user as a member of at least one communities according to the user'"'"'s major field from among the user information received from the user via the network.

2. The method in claim 1, wherein the user information further comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a resident registration number, an address, a scholarship, a taste, an occupation, a major department, a marital status, a color and a study abroad.

3. The method in claim 1, wherein said step of generating a web page for a major community further comprises a step of revising the contents of the web page in accordance with the user'"'"'s request.

4. The method in claim 1 further comprising a step of generating at least one user'"'"'s private home page comprised of background color, inserted image, user'"'"'s instructions or linked site information with pre specified forms using content information related to the user'"'"'s information and the user'"'"'s subscribed community.

5. The method in claim 4, wherein said step of generating at least one user'"'"'s private home page further comprises a step of generating text or image with pre specified form for linking to sites related to the user'"'"'s major field.

6. The method in claim 1 further comprising a step of providing a bookmark tool for immediately connecting to corresponding sites at the request of the user by storing the selected site information among a plurality of stored sites visited by the user.

7. The method in claim 6, wherein said step of providing a bookmark tool further comprises a step of establishing default starting-page for moving directly to a web page of a corresponding site by recognizing previously a default starting-page selected by the user from among sites stored by the bookmark tool in the process of connecting to the network.

8. An automatic private home page generation method comprising the steps of:

constructing a hierarchical data structure with a plurality of levels for including category information about major departments, areas and schools;

receiving user'"'"'s information from the user via a network; and

generating at least one user'"'"'s private home page using the user'"'"'s information received from the user,

wherein the at least one user'"'"'s private home page comprises a private region with private history information from among the user'"'"'s information, and a major-related region including at least one selected from a group consisting of link information of web sites, images and news that are related to user'"'"'s major field.

9. A method of automatic controlling bulletin boards, comprising the steps of:

constructing a hierarchical data structure with a plurality of levels for including category information related to major departments, areas and schools;

generating bulletin boards belonging to web pages of communities for major departments, areas or schools to display writings recorded by members of each community at the user'"'"'s request;

assigning the users to corresponding communities according to user'"'"'s information provided by users via a network; and

registering a writing being recorded by a user to all bulletin boards of the communities to which the user has been subscribed or to bulletin boards selected by the user for external reading when the user records a writings to specific bulletin board.

10. An automatic user'"'"'s home page generation method comprising the steps of:

receiving user'"'"'s information from the user via a network;

receiving at least one piece of information to be used for the purpose of selecting a community for the user;

storing contents for displaying on a home page for the community or locating the existing contents among the user'"'"'s information in a database; and

generating at least one user'"'"'s home page for at least one community using information from the user or communities.

11. A method of displaying bulletin boards, comprising the steps of:

receiving information from users and at least one community which includes the users via a network;

receiving writings recorded by the users; and

storing the writings in a database for connection to at least one other writing belonging to at least one community related to users,

wherein, the writings are displayed on bulletin boards of related communities for optional viewing by community members.

12. The method in claim 11, wherein said step of storing the writings in a database comprises the steps of:

selecting information for at least one community including the writings recorded by the users from the user'"'"'s information, wherein, the database having stored the writings includes at least one community field; and

storing the selected information for the communities as well as the writings in corresponding fields.

13. A method of accomplishing a function of bookmark, comprising the steps of:

receiving information from users and at least one community which includes the users via a network;

storing home page information for the communities selected by the users, at least one frame information comprising the home page and relationship information for each frame in a database;

providing corresponding home page information to the users at the user'"'"'s request;

adding address information for selected home pages which correspond to each user'"'"'s private home page information from among a plurality of home page when a user makes a request to register;

displaying the added home page information in a side screen of the user'"'"'s private home page at the user'"'"'s request to register; and

converting the screen to corresponding home page from among the added home page information displayed in a side screen at the user'"'"'s selection.

14. An automatic community generation system for automatically generating communities for a user'"'"'s major field via a network, said automatic community generation system comprising:

a memory system including a database for the user'"'"'s information and community information;

at least one processor connected to said memory system;

an input device for entering signals provided via the network to said processor; and

an output device for generating output signal from said processors,

wherein, the database comprises an area entity including area code and information related to corresponding area, a university entity, which includes the area code, university code and information related to corresponding universities, connected to said area entity by the area code, a home page entity, which includes the area code, university code, department (college) code and information related to the home page of the department (college), connecting to said university entity by the area code and university code, a department (college) entity, which includes the department (college) code and information related to the department (college), connecting to said home page entity by the department (college) code, and a professor entity, which includes the area code, university code, department (college) code and information related to the professor, connected to said university entity by the area code and university and connected to said department (college) entity by the department (college) code.

15. An automatic community generation system, comprising:

a memory system having a database including category information that composed of information for major department located at a top level and for corresponding area or university located at the lower level together with user'"'"'s information;

a transmitter for transmitting the category information based upon the major department at the user'"'"'s request; and

a community generator for generating the major community for the field requested by the user from among the category information.

16. The system in claim 15, said database comprising:

an area entity including area code and information related to corresponding area;

a university entity, which includes the area code, university code and information related to corresponding universities, connected to said area entity by the area code;

a home page entity, which includes the area code, university code, department (college) code and information related to the home page of the department (college), connecting to said university entity by the area code and university code;

a department (college) entity, which includes the department (college) code and information related to the department (college), connected to said home page entity by the department (college) code; and

a professor entity, which includes the area code, university code, department (college) code and information related to the professor, connected to said university entity by the area code and university and connected to said department (college) entity by the department (college) code.

17. The system in claim 15 further comprising a home page generator for generating private home pages with pre specified forms utilizing a user'"'"'s private profile from among the user'"'"'s information.

18. The system in claim 15 further comprising a provider of bookmark tool for connecting immediately to a registered home page at a user'"'"'s request and displaying the registered home page information in a side of screen of user'"'"'s private home page after registering the address information of the home page selected from among those home pages frequently visited by the user.

19. An automatic community generation system, comprising:

a memory system having a hierarchical data structure including category information composed of information for area located at a top level and for major department or university located at the lower level together with the user'"'"'s information;

a transmitter for transmitting the category information based upon the major department at the user'"'"'s request; and

a community generator for generating the major community for the field requested by the user from among the category information.

20. The system in claim 19, said hierarchical data comprising:

an area entity including area code and information related to corresponding area;

a university entity, which includes the area code, university code and information related to corresponding universities, connected to said area entity by the area code;

a home page entity, which includes the area code, university code, department (college) code and information related to the home page of the department (college), connected to said university entity by the area code and university code;

a department (college) entity, which includes the department (college) code and information related to the department (college), connected to said home page entity by the department (college) code; and

a professor entity, which includes the area code, university code, department (college) code and information related to the professor, connected to said university entity by the area code and university and connected to said department (college) entity by the department (college) code.

21. An automatic community generation system, comprising:

a memory system having a hierarchical data structure with a plurality of levels including category information for major department, area and university;

a transmitter for transmitting the category information based upon the major department at the user'"'"'s request; and

a community generator for generating the major community of the field requested by the user from among the category information.

22. The system in claim 21, wherein the category information comprises information for major department or area located at a top level and for corresponding area, major department or university located at the lower level.

23. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions and realized in concrete by a program of instructions, which could be executed by a digital processing unit, for generating a community held in common by a plurality of users automatically via network, said method of generating community automatically comprising the steps of:

locating a major department or area at a top level;

constructing a hierarchical data structure based upon the major department by locating category information for the major department, area or school at the lower level according to the contents located at the top level;

generating a web page for a major community for use by at least one user by composing a specified form from at least one selected from a group consisting of link information related to the major department, major-related image and major-related news;

receiving user information from at least one users connected via the network, wherein, the user information includes at least one selected from a group consisting of major department and area; and

assigning the user as a member of at least one community according to the user'"'"'s major field from among the user information received from the user via the network.

24. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions and realized in concrete by a program of instructions, which could be executable by a digital processing unit, for generating a user'"'"'s private home page automatically via a network, said method of generating user'"'"'s private home pages automatically comprising the steps of:

constructing a hierarchical data structure with a plurality of levels for including category information about major departments, areas and schools;

receiving user'"'"'s information from the user via the network; and

generating at least one user'"'"'s private home pages using the received user'"'"'s information,

wherein the at least one user'"'"'s private home page comprises a private region with private history information from among user'"'"'s information, and a major-related region including at least one selected from a group consisting of link information of web sites, images and news related to a user'"'"'s major field.

25. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions and realized in concrete by a program of instructions, which could be executable by a digital processing unit, for displaying a user'"'"'s bulletin board dynamically via a network, said method of displaying user'"'"'s bulletin board dynamically comprising the steps of:

receiving information from users and at least one community which includes the users via network;

receiving writings recorded by the users; and

storing the writings in a database for connection to at least one other writing belonging to at least one community related to users,

wherein, the writings are displayed on bulletin boards of related communities for optional viewing by community members.

26. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions and realized in concrete by a program of instructions, which could be executable by a digital processing unit, for accomplishing a bookmark tool via a network, said method of accomplishing the bookmark tool comprising the steps of:

receiving information from users and at least one community which includes the users via the network;

storing home page information for the communities selected by the users, at least one frame information comprising the home page and relationship information for each frame in a database;

providing corresponding home page information to the users at the user'"'"'s request;

adding address information of the selected home page to a user'"'"'s private home page information taken from among a plurality of home page during the procedure followed when a user makes a request to register;

displaying the added home page information in a side screen on the user'"'"'s private home page when a user makes a request to register; and

converting the screen to corresponding home page from among the added home page information displayed on a side screen when selected by a user.