Patent ID: 8463812

Claim:
An apparatus for providing a social network service using the relationship of ontology, comprising: a processor, comprising: an ontology storage unit storing social ontology defining relationship information between a user and a social network subscriber, service ontology defining position and relationship information of services, and tag ontology defining tag information related to information included in the social ontology and the service ontology; an ontology analysis unit retrieving a tag corresponding to the user's current position and a service request factor by using the relationship of the ontologies stored in the ontology storage unit when the service request factor is inputted from the user; a service processing unit extracting the corresponding service on the basis of information of the retrieved tag; and a service providing unit providing the user with the extracted service, wherein the social ontology includes at least one of user's personal information, the user's current positional information, and the relationship information between the user and the social network subscriber, wherein the ontology analysis unit retrieves relationship tag information of a social network subscriber corresponding to the service request factor among the relationship information with the social network subscriber defined in the social ontology, wherein the service ontology includes at least one of the information on the services, and related positional information and relationship information of the services, wherein the ontology analysis unit retrieves relationship tag information of a service corresponding to the user's current position by comparing the user's current position with the related positional information of the services defined in the service ontology, wherein a social network is formed between the user and the social network subscriber in a location of the user's current position by linking using the social ontology, the service ontology and the tag ontology, wherein the tag ontology includes at least one of the tag information on the information included in the social ontology and the service ontology, and the relationship information between the tags, and further comprising an information collecting unit collecting the user's current positional information when the service request factor is inputted from the user.