Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120311052 | MESSAGING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPANDING MEMBER ADDITION OPERATION - Provided is a messaging service system and method for adding a contact through a grouping operation. The messaging service system includes a member registering unit configured to create a group, and to register a first member designated by a user as a first participant of the group; and a member managing unit configured to disclose the group to the first participant of the group, to assign, to the first participant, a permission to add a second participant to the group, in which, the member registering unit is configured to add a second member designated by the first participant of the group as the second participant of the group, and the member managing unit is configured to display a list of members registered by the member registering unit and a list of groups created by the member registering unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20130021368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND SHARING IMAGES ON PER ALBUM BASIS - Provided is a system and method for managing images album-by-album. A communication terminal includes a storage device, a management unit configured to manage images stored on the storage device, album-by-album, and a loading unit configured to load images contained in an album into a server corresponding to a host system on a per album basis in response to a user's setting of sharing attribute of the album as shared with another person. An access permission to the album is granted to the another person so that the another person shares the album with the user. | 01-24-2013 |
20130232183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON USE INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM A USER TERMINAL - Provided is a system and method based on use information of an application obtained from a user terminal. With respect to a communication terminal in which at least one first application and a second application including a function of collecting the use information associated with the first application are installed, in conjunction with the second application, a server for providing a collecting unit to collect the use information collected from a user with respect to the first application, and a recommended application list with respect to the first application based on statistics of the use information. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232197 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE AND FOR SETTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USERS - Provided is a system for providing social network service (SNS) and a method for setting relationship between users of mobile terminals. The system may include a reception unit to receive location information on a user terminal allowing the location information to be shared in response to a friend request from the user terminal, a user terminal identification unit to identify at least one other user terminal present within a preset distance based on the location information on the user terminal and allows location information to be shared, a user information transmission unit to identify and send user information on the other user terminal to the user terminal, and a relationship setting unit to set a relationship between users of the user terminal and the other user terminal when the user information on the other user terminal is selected in the user terminal. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232256 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RANKING INFORMATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION - Provided is a system and method for providing ranking information of a mobile application using information obtained from a user terminal. A server for providing ranking information of an application on the Internet may include a collecting unit to collect, with regard to at least one first application installed in a communication terminal, at least one of use information indicating a position of an icon of the first application on a wallpaper, that is, an application managing interface of the communication terminal, and use information indicating the first application currently being executed in the memory of the communication terminal; and a providing unit to provide a ranking of the first application based on statistics of use information. | 09-05-2013 |
20130260893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AVATAR/GAME/ENTERTAINMENT FUNCTIONS ON MESSENGER PLATFORM - Provided is a system and method for providing avatar, gaming and entertainment functions on a messenger platform. A method for providing a messenger service using a real graph displaying social information of users using a messenger may include: providing a messenger function among users between whom a relationship is established; providing a first user interface for providing a virtual world service through the messenger function; providing the virtual world service using a virtual graph displaying social information of users using the virtual world service; converting the real world service, to the virtual world service in response to a request from the first user interface, and providing a second interface for converting the virtual world service to the real world service. The virtual world service may include at least one of an avatar service and a game service. | 10-03-2013 |
20130325987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SCHEDULING SERVICE BASED ON MOBILE MESSAGING APPLICATION - Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a scheduling service based on a mobile messaging application. The method for providing the scheduling service includes, in an electronic device including a messaging application, the messaging application generating schedule information by receiving at least one of a candidate time and a candidate location for an event and receiving a selection of a user to be invited to the event among users registered in the messaging application, and transmitting the schedule information to the invited user so that the invited user votes on at least one of a possible time and a possible location for attending the event. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332543 | MESSENGER-LINKED SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A SOCIAL GRAPH OF A MESSENGER PLATFORM - A messenger-linked service system and method using a social graph based on a human relationship of a messenger are provided. The messenger-linked service system may include a relationship extraction unit to extract a social graph of a friend relationship of the messenger, a selection unit to select data in the messenger-linked service, and an execution unit to either transmit or to execute a sharing request of the selected data to the friend using the social graph. | 12-12-2013 |
20140019540 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VARIOUS SERVICES BASED ON SOCIAL INFORMATION OF MESSENGER PLATFORM USERS - Provided is a method and system for providing various services based on social information of messenger platform users. The method for providing the various services may include: providing a main service using a real profile including social information of users using a main service; and providing a channel for a plurality of inter-operative services through the main service. The at least one of the plurality of inter-operative services may be provided to a user selecting the at least one of the plurality of inter-operative services and at least one other user with whom the user establishes a relationship using the real profile in the at least one of the plurality of inter-operative services. | 01-16-2014 |