SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DOCUMENT BASED ON PERSONAL NETWORK

• US 20120084318A1
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: KANG, In Ho, KIM, Soo Hyun, PARK, Chan Hoon
• Granted Patent: US 8,671,094 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Provided are a system and method for providing a document based on a personal network. The document providing system may include a community searching unit to search for a community associated with a first document prepared by a first user, a document registration unit to register the first document in the searched community, and to receive a second document, associated with the first document, registered by a second user included in the community, and a document providing unit to provide the second document associated with the first document. According to embodiments of the present invention, a response that the first user may desire may be provided by receiving a response, registered by the second user included in the community associated with the first user, with respect to the document prepared by the first user.

Claims

1. A system using a server comprising a processor for providing a document, the system comprising:

a community searching unit configured to search for a community associated with a first document provided by a first user;

a document registration unit, executed by the processor, configured to register the first document in the searched community, and to receive a second document, associated with the first document, registered by a second user included in the community; and

a document providing unit configured to provide the second document associated with the first document.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the community searching unit is configured to search for the community associated with the first document, among communities joined by the first user, or communities joined by a neighbor having similar interests to that of the first user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the community searching unit is configured to receive a join request for the community by providing, to the first user, the community associated with the first document.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein

the document registration unit is configured to transfer the first document prepared by the first user to the community, and to receive the second document registered by the second user included in the community, and

the second document corresponds to a response with respect to the first document.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein

the community searching unit is configured to provide, to the first user, a candidate community group comprising at least one community associated with the first document, and

the document registration unit is configured to receive the second document registered by the second user included in a community selected by the first user from communities included in the candidate community group.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the community searching unit is configured to search for the community associated with the first document using keywords included in a user profile of the first user and keywords included in the first document.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the profile of the first user comprises representative keywords extracted based on frequencies of the keywords included in the first document prepared by the first user.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the document providing unit provides, through an interface, the second document corresponding to a response with respect to the first document, by receiving the second document via the searched community.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the document registration unit is configured to provide, to the second user, the first document prepared by the first user through an interface where the first document is displayed to be distinguished from a third document registered in the community.

10. A method using a processor for providing a document, the method comprising:

searching for a community associated with a first document prepared by a first user;

receiving a second document, associated with the first document, registered by a second user included in the community in response to detection of the first document being registered in the searched community; and

providing the second document associated with the first document.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the searching comprises searching for the community associated with the first document, among communities joined by the first user, or communities joined by a neighbor having similar interests to that of the first user.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the searching further comprises receiving a join request for the community by providing, to the first user, the community associated with the first document.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving comprises

transferring the first document prepared by the first user to the community, and

receiving the second document registered by the second user included in the community, wherein the second document corresponds to a response with respect to the first document.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein

the searching comprises providing, to the first user, a candidate community group comprising at least one community associated with the first document, and

the receiving comprises receiving the registered second document from a community selected by the first user from communities included in the candidate community group.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the searching comprises searching for the community associated with the first document using keywords included in a user profile of the first user and keywords included in the first document.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the profile of the first user comprises representative keywords extracted based on frequencies of the keywords included in the first document prepared by the first user.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the providing comprises providing, through an interface, the second document corresponding to a response with respect to the first document, by receiving the second document via the searched community.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the registering comprises providing, to the second user, the first document prepared by the first user through an interface where the first document is displayed to be distinguished from a third document registered in the community.

19. An apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to search for a network community associated with a first document corresponding to a first profile of a first user by comparing a keyword of the first document with a keyword of a second document corresponding to a second profile of a second user of the searched network community, wherein the second document is retrieved from the searched network community and provided to the first user, and wherein the first document corresponding to the first profile of the first user is displayed to the second user and the second document corresponding to the second profile of the second user is displayed to the first user via an interface distinguished from displaying a third document registered in the searched network community.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the first profile and the second profile comprise at least one of user identification (ID) information of the first user and the second user, keywords included in the respective first document and the second document, or ID information of the searched network community.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to display the first document to the second user and the second document to the first user being distinguished from displaying a third document registered in the searched network community that comprising at least one of the first user not need to identify where the first document corresponding to a query prepared by the first user was prepared, which community the first document was transferred to, or not need to join the searched community in order to receive the second document corresponding to a response with respect to the first document.