System for constructing network community
AssigneesData Cake Baker Corporation, Kazuyoshi Maegawa
InventorsTakayuki Saito, Tatsuji Igarashi
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Abstract
A network community system capable of spontaneously, autonomously forming and managing a network community space allowing interactive communication, exchange of opinions and exchange of information among users of a plurality of computers connected to a computer network such as the Internet is disclosed. This system is an application software (CSW) installed in each of the users which become community members and functions as a platform for forming the network community space. This system constructs a logical path network for exchanging agents among the computers according to the startup of the CSW. Each of the agents transports a message written by a computer user who transmits the message to the computers of other users and registers the message in a message database.
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A system for constructing a network community for communicating between a plurality of computers, wherein each of the computers comprises:
- transmitting means for generating an agent a function and including a message relating to a user, and transmitting the agent to the network, wherein the agent comprises a software module moving on the computer network and executing predetermined processing;
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- message storing means for receiving the agent and storing the message included in the agent in association with information specifying the user associated with transmitting the message;
- wherein the agent identifies a message having a predetermined similarity to the message relating to the user from a plurality of messages stored in the message storing means that received the agent, and posts the identified message via the network to the user associated with the message.
A system for forming a network community, comprising:
- a plurality of computers connected to a computer network;
- path establishing means for establishing a logical path network for exchanging information including programs and data among the plurality of computers;
- means for transmitting an agent to the computer network, the agent including a message generated by a user of a computer among the plurality of computers and having a pattern matching function of identifying a message on a subject with a high similarity to the subject of the message generated by the user;
- message storing means for registering the message included in the agent received through the logical path network together with information specifying the user who generated the message, and for accumulating a group of messages for each of the plurality of computers;
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- means for exchanging information between the user who generated the message included in the agent and a user who generated a message on a subject with a high similarity to the subject of the message generated by the user as identified in the message storing means by the pattern matching function of the agent.
A method of forming a network community, the network community allowing exchange of information among users of a plurality of computers connected to a computer network, the method comprising the steps of:
- installing a network community system, wherein each of the plurality of computers comprises a software module having a function of generating an agent including a message and a function of transmitting the agent to the network;
- transmitting an agent including a generated message among the computers through the network;
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- storing the message carried by the agent received through the network together with information specifying a computer user who generated the message;
- wherein the agent identifies a message having a predetermined similarity to the message carried by the agent and posts the identified message via the network to the user associated with transmitting the agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.