Online social network management system and method for simulating users to build various faces of relation

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PATENT NO 8239499
APP PUB NO 20080288612A1
SERIAL NO

11817568

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A system and method of managing a social network are disclosed. The method includes the step of recording the IDs and corresponding personal information of users who have subscribed to a service via a network, in a user DB; the step of recording corresponding relationships between the users and relationship indices R, reflecting the degrees of trustworthiness of the users having the corresponding relationships, in a relationship information DB; and the path search step of evaluating one or more paths based on the relationship indices R of respective links constituting the paths and providing evaluation results to a first user so that the first user can select an optimal path from among the paths existing between the first user and a second user on the social network constructed with the users used as nodes and the corresponding relationships of the users used as the links.

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  • NHN CORPORATION

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Kwon, Oh Sung Seoul, KR 14 439

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