Patents by Inventor KT CORPORATION

KT CORPORATION has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130227036
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to providing a machine to machine (M2M0 service. A user interface (UI) template associated with a M2M device may be retrieved when a message is received from the M2M device. Then, data collected from the M2M device may be combined with the retrieved UI template. The M2M service associated with the M2M device may be provided by embedding the combined data to application data for producing a M2M service user interface (UI) of the associated M2M service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130226998
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to providing a machine-to-machine (M2M) service. Device identification information on a specific M2M device associated with a requested M2M service may be obtained. Device data corresponding to the device identification information may be obtained. A user interface (UI) template corresponding to the requested M2M service may be determined. An M2M application data may be created by combining the obtained device data and the determined UI template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130225131
    Abstract: A digital processing device capable of receiving an additional service is disclosed. In one aspect, a digital processing device includes i) an input unit, inputting a signal, ii) a subscriber identity unit, storing an identity code of a communication operator and generating a communication network access request message, iii) an additional service identity unit, storing an identity code of an additional service operator and generating an additional service request message and v) a control unit, generating a control signal allowing one of the subscriber identity unit and the additional service identity unit to be selectively driven. In accordance with at least one inventive embodiment, a user of the digital processing device can receive an additional service without his or her subscription to a specific communication operator and use various additional services in addition to the additional services provided by the subscribed communication operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130225136
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an idle screen service are disclosed. A mobile communication terminal receiving contents provided from at least one content provider server in a mobile communication system environment is also disclosed. The mobile communication terminal may include a content receiver module which receives contents provided through a mobile communication system by separating into layers, a handset operating system module which operates the terminal and runs an application and which has a user interface, and a content management application module which synthesizes the contents separated into layers received from the content receiver module into one idle screen layer and which provides it to the idle screen of the mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130179546
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide user equipment for converting a first type data stream to a second type data stream. The user equipment may include a request message transmitting unit, a first stream receiving unit, a converting unit, and a reproducing unit. The request message transmitting unit may transmit a content request message to a streaming server in order to request a predetermined content stored in the streaming server. The first stream receiving unit may receive, from the streaming server, a first type data stream created from the requested content based on a first protocol in response to the content request message. The converting unit may convert the received first type data stream to a second type data stream. The second type data stream may be a data stream generated based on a second protocol. The reproducing unit may reproduce the requested content based on the second type data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130179582
    Abstract: Disclosed are the examples of an interworking system and related methods. The interworking system can be configured to implement a session initiation protocol (SIP) message routing method that may include checking a transmitting subject and a transmission method of a SIP message, applying a network address translation based on the checked message's transmitting subject and its transmission method, and specifying the address of the node selected based on the checked message's transmitting subject in routing path information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130173361
    Abstract: An advertisement reward providing method includes receiving first advertisement information associated with advertisement, that is being reproduced in a first device, from a second device, providing, to the second device, a mission associated with the advertisement based on the first advertisement information, receiving, from the second device, a mission completion message and providing an advertisement reward to at least one of the first device and the second device, in response to the mission completion message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130162037
    Abstract: A charging/discharging control system of an energy storage apparatus includes a weather information collection module, a load information collection module, a load grouping module which classifies a plurality of loads into at least one load group based on a load correlation according to a predetermined condition, and an energy storage apparatus charging/discharging control module which determines a battery charging or discharging level per time slot of each of a plurality of energy storage apparatuses by using at least one of an estimated load amount of each load per time slot, a battery charging amount of the energy storage apparatus per time slot via solar generation, and a battery charging amount per time slot via system power, wherein a particular load corresponding to a lowest rate for a unit load is determined by using battery charging/discharging information and power rate information per time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130166684
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a contents identifier configured to identify contents displayed on a first device among a plurality of devices, a usage history monitor configured to monitor usage history of a second device among the plurality of devices, a partial contents generator configured to generate partial contents, which is a part of the contents, based on the monitored usage history and a partial contents transmitter configured to transmit the partial contents to any one of the plurality of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130166790
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to controlling an application execution in user equipment. A user request for executing an application may be received. An execution condition may be obtained associated with the requested application. Whether the user equipment is connected to an external device may be detected. An execution of the requested application may be controlled based on a detection result and the obtained execution condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130167040
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method and user equipment for selectively transferring image data from user equipment to a coupled external device. The method may include determining whether user equipment is coupled to an external device, receiving selection inputs from a user for selecting at least one of applications installed in the user equipment when the user equipment is determined as being coupled to the external device, and selectively transferring image data produced in the user equipment based on the selected application. The method may further include controlling the coupled external device to display the transferred image data on a display unit of the coupled external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130166789
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to controlling a device setting in user equipment. Whether the user equipment is connected to a control guide device may be detected. Device setting guide information may be obtained from a connected control guide device. The device setting of the user equipment may be controlled based on the obtained device setting guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130166785
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method and user equipment for controlling a plurality of coupled external devices. The method may include determining whether one of applications installed in user equipment is activated upon receipt of a user input when the user equipment is coupled to a plurality of external devices, selecting one of the coupled external devices as a target external device to be mapped, when the application is determined as being activated, and mapping the selected coupled external device with the activated application and establishing a signal route between the user equipment and the selected coupled external device in association with the activated application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130167246
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method and user equipment for restricting transferring of image data produced by a predetermined application to a coupled external device. The method may include detecting an activation of an application in a user equipment while the user equipment is coupled to an external device and determining whether image data produced by the activated application is transferred to the coupled external device. The determining may include restricting the produced image data of the activated application from being transferred to the coupled external device when an application control type of the activated application is a restricted application, otherwise, transferring the produced image data of the activated application to the coupled external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130166451
    Abstract: A method and a system of payment using an electronic card is provided. The payment system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment includes an electronic card, a merchant terminal and a payment server. The electronic card obtains server authentication information from the payment server, performs server authentication by using the obtained server authentication information, and sends a payment request including payment information to the payment server according to an authentication response of the payment server. The merchant terminal mediates a message for authentication and payment between the electronic card and the payment server. The payment server performs client authentication by obtaining client authentication information from the electronic card according to the server authentication and sends the authentication response to the electronic card, and sends payment approval pursuant to the payment request to the electronic card through the merchant terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130162502
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method and user equipment for dynamically controlling a display mode of an external device coupled to user equipment. The method may include determining whether to detect connection to an external device and upon the detection of the connection, controlling the coupled external device to display image data produced in the user equipment on a display unit of the coupled external device in a display mode different from a display mode of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130165169
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method for controlling radio units to transmit a signal to user equipment wherein each one of the radio units includes at least two antennas associated with a different transmission pattern. The method may include determining whether user equipment is located at an overlapping cell area of a first cell and a second cell and controlling a first radio unit in the first cell to transmit a signal to the user equipment using a first resource block and controlling a second radio unit in the second cell to transmit a reference signal associated with the first resource block with a second transmission power when the user equipment is determined as being located in the overlapping cell area. The second transmission power may be lower than a first transmission power of the first radio unit in the first cell for transmitting a reference signal using the first resource block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130163416
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a digital unit for controlling a plurality of radio units to transmit a signal to user equipment. The digital unit may determine whether user equipment is located at an overlapping service area of a first radio unit and a second radio unit and control the first radio unit to transmit a signal to the user equipment using the first antenna and control the second radio unit to transmit the same signal to the user equipment using the second antenna when the user equipment is located in the overlapping service area. A transmission pattern of the first antenna of the first radio unit may be different from a transmission pattern of the second antenna of the second radio unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130163557
    Abstract: When a plurality of terminals share the same resources in a wireless communication system, and when control information such as acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) information or scheduling information is transmitted, a method of efficiently performing code division multiplexing (CDM) is required to distinguish the plurality of terminals. In particular, it is necessary to develop a method by which a code sequence of CDM can be selected and used according to each cell condition. Provided is a method of forming a signal in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of terminals commonly share frequency and time resources. The method includes the operations of receiving condition information in a cell; selecting one of a plurality of time domain orthogonal sequences having different lengths, according to the condition information; and allocating the selected time domain orthogonal sequence to a control signal symbol block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicants: KT CORPORATION, ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, KT Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130166283
    Abstract: A phoneme rule generating apparatus includes a spectrum analyzer configured to analyze pronunciation patterns of voices included in a plurality of voice data, a clusterer configured to cluster the plurality of voice data based on the analyzed pronunciation patterns, a voice group generator configured to generate voice groups from the clustered voice data, a phoneme rule generator configured to generate a phoneme rule corresponding to each respective voice group from among the generated voice groups and a group mapping DB configured to store the generated voice groups and the generated phoneme rules for an accurate voice recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: KT Corporation