Patent ID: 9026593
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
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: wherein X