SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A social networking system for providing communications services available to users who have established a relationship of best friends between the users, the social networking system including a server and a plurality of user apparatuses which are allowed to be interconnected via a network;
- the server comprising;
a storing portion for storing, in a storage area provided for each of the users who use the respective user apparatuses, multimedia data of the each user and a best friend list of the each user, the best friend list being provided for identifying users between whom the each user has established the relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use; and
an access permitting portion for permitting, when the server receives an access request from one of the user apparatuses, access to multimedia data stored in the storage area of a user who uses the one user apparatus and multimedia data stored in the storage area of users with whom the user has established the relationship of best friends, the users being identified on the basis of the best friend list of the user; and
each of the user apparatuses comprising;
an access requesting portion for issuing a request for accessing multimedia data stored in the storage portion of the server.
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Abstract
A server 102 and user apparatuses 103 through 105, 106A through 108A, and 106B through 108B are connected to a network to configure a social networking system. The server 102 stores multimedia data of respective users and best friend lists for identifying users with whom the respective users have established a relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use. When the server 102 receives an access request from one of the user apparatuses 103 through 105, 106A through 108A, and 106B through 108B, the server 102 permits the one user apparatus to access the multimedia data of the user of the one user apparatus and the multimedia data of users with whom the user of the one user apparatus has established the relationship of best friends.
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19 Claims
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1. A social networking system for providing communications services available to users who have established a relationship of best friends between the users, the social networking system including a server and a plurality of user apparatuses which are allowed to be interconnected via a network;
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the server comprising; a storing portion for storing, in a storage area provided for each of the users who use the respective user apparatuses, multimedia data of the each user and a best friend list of the each user, the best friend list being provided for identifying users between whom the each user has established the relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use; and an access permitting portion for permitting, when the server receives an access request from one of the user apparatuses, access to multimedia data stored in the storage area of a user who uses the one user apparatus and multimedia data stored in the storage area of users with whom the user has established the relationship of best friends, the users being identified on the basis of the best friend list of the user; and each of the user apparatuses comprising; an access requesting portion for issuing a request for accessing multimedia data stored in the storage portion of the server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A server for storing content data uploaded from user apparatuses and providing the content data for the user apparatuses, the server comprising:
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a content identifying portion for automatically identifying, when content data is uploaded from one of the user apparatuses, the content data; and a provision changing portion for changing, in accordance with an identification result of the content data, a manner in which the content data is provided for another user apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A computer program embodied in a machine-readable medium, the computer program applied to a server of a social networking system which includes the server and a plurality of user apparatuses which are allowed to be interconnected via a network and provides communications services available to users who have established a relationship of best friends between the users, the computer program comprising the steps of:
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a storing step for storing, in a storage area provided for each of the users who use the respective user apparatuses, multimedia data of the each user and a best friend list of the each user, the best friend list being provided for identifying users between whom the each user has established the relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use; and an access permitting step for permitting, when the server receives an access request from one of the user apparatuses, access to multimedia data stored in the storage area of a user who uses the one user apparatus and multimedia data stored in the storage area of users with whom the user has established the relationship of best friends, the users being identified on the basis of the best friend list of the user.
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16. A computer program embodied in a machine-readable medium, the computer program applied to a server of a social networking system which includes the server and a plurality of mobile media players which are allowed to be interconnected via a network and provides communications services available to users who have established a relationship of best friends between the users, the computer program comprising the steps of:
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a storing step for storing, in a storage area provided for each of the users who use the respective mobile media players, multimedia data of the each user and a best friend list of the each user, the best friend list being provided for identifying users between whom the each user has established the relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use; an access permitting step for permitting, when the server receives an access request from one of the mobile media players, access to multimedia data stored in the storage area of a user who uses the one mobile media player and multimedia data stored in the storage area of users with whom the user has established the relationship of best friends, the users being identified on the basis of the best friend list of the user; and a step for streaming multimedia data which has been requested to reproduce, the multimedia data being included in multimedia data to which access has been permitted.
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17. A computer program embodied in a machine-readable medium, the computer program applied to a mobile media player of a social networking system which includes a server and a plurality of mobile media players which are allowed to be interconnected via a network and provides communications services available to users who have established a relationship of best friends between the users, the mobile media players each having a communicating portion for allowing the each mobile media player to communicate with another mobile media player, the computer program comprising the steps of:
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a best friend list storing step for storing a best friend list which identifies users with whom a user of the each mobile media player has established the relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use; a multimedia data storing step for storing multimedia data of the user of the each mobile media player; and a streaming step for determining, in response to a request for the multimedia data from another mobile media player, on the basis of the best friend list stored in the each mobile media player, whether the user of the each mobile media player has established the relationship of best friends with a user of the another mobile media player, and if so, streaming the multimedia data stored in the each mobile media player of the user to the another mobile media player. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. A computer program embodied in a machine-readable medium, the computer program applied to a server which stores content data uploaded from user apparatuses and provides the content data to the user apparatuses, the computer program comprising the steps of:
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a content identifying step for automatically identifying, when content data is uploaded from one of the user apparatus, the content data; and a provision changing step for changing, in accordance with an identification result of the content data, a manner in which the content data is provided for another user apparatus.
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