Method and system for providing extended social network service

摘要

Present invention provides a method and system for providing an extended social network service (SNS), the method and system enabling a user logged in an SNS to receive information in the form of newsfeed not only from users who have a friend relationship with the logged-in user in the SNS but also from users who have an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user through the friend relationship. Present invention also provide a method and system for providing an extended SNS, the method and system adding information about a friend relationship-based connection path between a user logged in an SNS and each user who has an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user to content shared between them, so that the reliability of the shared content can be determined.

主权项

1. A method of providing a social network service (SNS), the method comprising:
designating at least some of users, who have an acquaintance relationship with a user logged in the SNS, as content providers for the logged-in user; and providing a content in the form of a newsfeed, which is uploaded to the SNS by the content providers of the logged-in user, to the logged-in user, wherein one or more users connect two users who have the acquaintance relationship, through friend relationships in the SNS, wherein the designating of the at least some of the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user as the content providers comprises designating users, whose degree of trust with the logged-in user is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, as the content providers from among the users who have the acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user, and wherein the degree of trust is calculated by:T⁡(X1,Xn)=∑k=1n-1⁢αk⁢T⁡(Xk,Xk+1)(n-1)m wherein X1 is the logged-in user, Xn is an acquaintance of X1, αk is an impact factor indicating the degree of closeness between X1 and Xk+l, and m is a weight given to a shortest social distance between acquaintances.