HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER

• US 20110047235A1
• Filed: 10/29/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mekiki Creates Company Limited (Mekiki Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Mekiki Creates Company Limited (Mekiki Company Limited)
• Inventors: DEGUCHI, Hikaru, Ninomiya, Kenichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,150,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2291 User-Defined Types; Storage management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2425 Iterative querying; Query formulation based on the results of a preceding query
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2471 Distributed queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units 2 and 3 including sections for receiving personal data of a new member, and a second data processing unit including a section for storing the received personal data. The second data processing unit stores the personal data of the new member in correlation to an existing member when the existing member confirms the new member.

Claims

1. An apparatus including a server coupled to a communication network configured to establish and update relationships between members registered to a relationships registering system coupled to the communication network, the apparatus comprising:

a database configured to store personal attribute information of the members, the personal attribute information of each member including an e-mail address, name, and username, and also to store relationship coefficients indicating respective degrees of relationship between the members;

a message communicator configured to communicate via the communication network a first message to a second member indicating that a first member wishes to establish a direct relationship with the second member, and to communicate via the communication network a second message to the first member indicating that the second member has accepted the direct relationship with the first member;

the database further configured to update, once the direct relationship is established between the first member and the second member, the relationship coefficients stored in the database to reflect the direct relationship between the first member and the second member;

a data retriever configured to retrieve from the database identities of target members satisfying one or more key words of a search criterion of the first member, the one or more key words including at least a target relationship coefficient indicating the degree of relationship between the target members to be identified and the second member; and

a data sender configured to communicate to the first member via the communication network the retrieved identities of target members.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

the data retriever is further configured to retrieve from the database identities of common members having a direct relationship with both the first member and a first target member, and the data sender is further configured to communicate via the communication network the retrieved identities of the common members to the first member.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first message includes personal attribute information of the first member.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more key words are included in a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first message and the second message comprise protocol e-mails.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first message and the second message comprise any electronic communication of information.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the database is further configured to update, once the direct relationship is established between the first member and the second member, the relationship coefficients indicating the respective degrees of relationship between the first member and the members related to the second member, and the relationship coefficients indicating the respective degrees of relationship between the second member and the members related to the first member.