Community Server Linking Mechanism for Social Networking
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Solution Overview
Problem
In Social Networking Services (SNS), users who have communicated but are not initially linked face challenges in referencing each other's user IDs, leading to a low likelihood of future linking, which existing techniques fail to address effectively.
Innovation Solution
A community server with a monitor to track user communication states and a controller that encourages users to communicate after a period, linking them if they interact again, facilitating easy re-linking by prompting the exchange of messages or browsing communication records.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are automatically linked after communication, then user connectivity is improved, but users cannot reference each other's user IDs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary linking of users after their first communication, establishing the connection in advance. This allows users to be connected before they need to reference each other's user IDs, resolving the contradiction by ensuring connectivity is established proactively rather than reactively
2Loss of information
If users manually perform linking operations, then user ID accessibility is improved, but linking activity is reduced due to social concern
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic linking without requiring user intervention, making the linking process self-service. The community server automatically links users based on communication data, eliminating the need for users to manually initiate linking operations while still ensuring user ID accessibility
3Ease of operation
If users are not linked after first communication, then user autonomy is maintained, but re-linking probability becomes very low
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary linking immediately after first communication, capturing the opportunity while user interest is highest. This preliminary action ensures users are connected before their attention shifts, dramatically increasing the likelihood of future interactions and re-linking compared to waiting for users to initiate contact later
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AI summary
A community server of the present invention includes a monitor that monitors communication states of users, and a controller, in a case where users who previously communicate with each other but who are not linked with each other after the previous communication, that encourages each user to communicate with the counterpart user after passage of a first period since end of the previous communication between the users, and that links the users with each other if the users subsequently communicate with each other.