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Social networking system

A social network and friend relationship technology, which is applied in store-and-forward switching systems, data exchange through path configuration, data processing applications, etc., can solve problems such as copyright infringement, and achieve the effect of reducing time-consuming and the possibility of errors

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-05-14
YAMAHA CORP
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However, these services raise copyright infringement concerns if the content items uploaded by consumers are commercial content

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[0034] Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the entire configuration of a social networking system of an embodiment of the present invention. A social network server (SNS server) 102 and personal computers (PCs) 103, 104, 105 of respective users are connected to a wide area network 101 such as the Internet. Each user of the aforementioned PCs 103, 104, and 105 is registered in SNS in advance. The users also own mobile media players (hereinafter "MMP") 106A, 107A, 108A, respectively. In Fig. 1, it is assumed that there are three users registered on the system, however, the number of users may be any desired number. The above-mentioned SNS server 102 as a content provider server determines whether a content item uploaded by a user is commercial content. If it is determined that the uploaded content item is commercial content, the SNS server 102 can change the manner in which the com...

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a social networking service technique capable of sharing multimedia data, such as music content, among a small number of users who can be considered to be a range of private use and easily setting the relationship among users capable of sharing such data from outside the home, or the like. ŽSOLUTION: A server and each user equipment are connected to a network to configure a social networking system. The server stores multimedia data of respective users and best friend lists for identifying users with whom the respective users have established a relationship of best friends within a range of a certain number of users which can be considered as private use. When the server receives an access request from the user equipment, the server permits the user equipment to access the multimedia data of the user and the multimedia data of users with whom the user of one user equipment has established the relationship of best friends. Ž

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technical field [0001] This paper relates to a social networking system that allows sharing of multimedia data, such as music content, among a limited and small number of users. Background technique [0002] Due to the recent development of social networking services (SNS) using the Internet, more and more people like to communicate with their friends or people with the same hobbies and hobbies (see http: / / mixi.jp / , for example). In particular, music SNS is increasing. In various music SNSs, users can share reproduction histories (playlists) of music content items owned by individual users. [0003] In addition, there are various services known as CGM (Consumer Generated Media) that allow consumers to use the Internet to generate content themselves. These CGM services include, for example, music file and picture file sharing services. However, these services raise the issue of copyright infringement if the content item uploaded by the consumer is commercial content. [0...

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IPC IPC(8): H04L12/28H04L12/54G06Q50/00G06F21/00G06F21/62G06Q50/10
Inventor 宫崎琢磨
Owner YAMAHA CORP
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