Social contents sharing model and system based on user location and social network

Abstract

Increasing numbers of smart phone users and Social Network Services (SNS) created a new pattern and characteristic called Social Lifestyle, the way of smartphone users to supply and consume various social media contents. Many SNS services provide individual solutions to group users within a physical location or those who share a common interest in order to exchange and share personal knowledge and contents. Although some of the web-based open platforms are trying to integrate the individual social applications and APIs, there are limitations of sharing social contents and social network information across the separated service providers and platforms. In order to solve such limitations and complexities, there needs to be a generalized model which supports a unified way of social content sharing as well as the system architecture for support the cross social media sharing mechanism. To do so, the paper initially proposes the Place-Content-Social Network based content sharing model (PCS Model) which supports a sophisticated way of connecting user interests for sharing contents within the boundaries of the locations and social network information. The PCS model also provides a social trust for sharing contents based on the analysis of the attributes of the social contents including the user participation, communication patterns and contents sharing activities called the Social Activities.