Kakao Corporation

Kwang Hui Lim

Sun Choi

Eun Jung Ko

Ji Sun Lee

Ki Yong Shim

Hyun Young Park

Young Min Park

Doo Won Lee

Jae Gil Lee

Hwa Young Lee

Seong Mi Lim

Kyong Rim Kim

Soo Min Cho

Kwang Hoon Choi

Jae Lin Lee

A method of providing information on a social networking service (SNS) activity to a chatroom, performed by a user terminal, includes: transmitting, to a server, an SNS request for each of a plurality of anonymous profiles created to be interlinked with an account of a user for an instant messaging service (IMS); displaying information on an SNS activity performed through a first anonymous profile selected by the user in correspondence with a chatroom in which the user participates in the IMS, from among the plurality of anonymous profiles, in the chatroom; receiving an input of changing a profile of the user, selected corresponding to the to chatroom, from the first anonymous profile to a second anonymous profile; and displaying information on an SNS activity performed through the second anonymous profile in the chatroom.

Method and apparatus for displaying interface for providing social networking service through anonymous profile

A method of providing information on a social networking service (SNS) activity to a chatroom, performed by a server, includes: providing an SNS for each of a plurality of anonymous profiles created to be interlinked with an account for an instant messaging service (IMS); receiving information on an SNS activity performed through a first anonymous profile selected corresponding to a chatroom of the IMS, among the plurality of anonymous profiles of a user participating in the chatroom; providing the information on the SNS activity performed through the first anonymous profile to the chatroom; receiving a request to change the profile of the user selected corresponding to the chatroom from the first anonymous profile to a second anonymous profile; receiving information on an SNS activity performed through the second anonymous profile; and providing the information on the SNS activity performed through the second anonymous profile to the chatroom.

A method of displaying an interface for providing a social networking service (SNS) through an anonymous profile, performed by a user terminal, includes displaying a first list of at least one anonymous chatroom created by a user account for an instant messaging service (IMS) using a first region on a first page in an interface for the IMS, displaying a second list of at least one anonymous profile created to be interlinked with the user account using a first region on a second page in the interface for the IMS, and displaying, in response to an input of selecting any one anonymous profile in the second list, an interface for providing the SNS through the selected anonymous profile.

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