Social Networking Service Based on Peer-to-Peer Network

We developed a peer-to-peer (P2P) based networking service and designed a P2P based social networking service method and apparatus capable of appropriately providing a social networking service under P2P environments. This paper proposed a method for easily providing a social networking service, which will be used as a principal service on the basis of a universal P2P platform irrelevant to application characteristics. Also, this paper provides a universal P2P platform which can easily construct a community for a social networking service by using a peer group management function.