Line Corporation

Nhn Corporation

Bo Yoon Choi

Jungmin Lee

JungHo Shin

Seong Hoon Kim

Youngsu Ko

Haejin Lee

Hyun Jung Lim

Byoung Chan Woo

A user terminal connected to a system to provide social network service (SNS) includes a transmission unit configured to send a friend request and location information of the user terminal, and receive user information of at least one other user terminals, and a display control unit configured to control a display of the user terminal to display a current location of a user of the user terminal and the user information of the at least one other user terminal present within a predetermined distance based on received location information of the other user terminal. Within the display control unit, a particular region of the display is set as a current location of the user terminal.

System and method for providing social network service and for setting relationship between users

Provided is a messaging service system and method for adding a contact through a grouping operation. The messaging service system includes a member registering unit configured to create a group, and to register a first member designated by a user as a first participant of the group; and a member managing unit configured to disclose the group to the first participant of the group, to assign, to the first participant, a permission to add a second participant to the group, in which, the member registering unit is configured to add a second member designated by the first participant of the group as the second participant of the group, and the member managing unit is configured to display a list of members registered by the member registering unit and a list of groups created by the member registering unit.

Messaging service system and method for expanding member addition operation

Provided is a system for providing social network service (SNS) and a method for setting relationship between users of mobile terminals. The system may include a reception unit to receive location information on a user terminal allowing the location information to be shared in response to a friend request from the user terminal, a user terminal identification unit to identify at least one other user terminal present within a preset distance based on the location information on the user terminal and allows location information to be shared, a user information transmission unit to identify and send user information on the other user terminal to the user terminal, and a relationship setting unit to set a relationship between users of the user terminal and the other user terminal when the user information on the other user terminal is selected in the user terminal.

Provided is a system and method for managing images album-by-album. A communication terminal includes a storage device, a management unit configured to manage images stored on the storage device, album-by-album, and a loading unit configured to load images contained in an album into a server corresponding to a host system on a per album basis in response to a user's setting of sharing attribute of the album as shared with another person. An access permission to the album is granted to the another person so that the another person shares the album with the user.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Bo Yoon Choi