Patents Assigned to LINE CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 10824804
    Abstract: Provided is a method and system for expanding to an everyday language using a word vectorization technique based on social network content. A content providing method includes collecting social network content on the Internet; expanding corresponding content information to a word set of words included in the social network content with respect to target content that is to be serviced to a client; and providing the target content to the client with respect to user information associated with the client using the word set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: LINE Corporation
    Inventor: Hyukjae Jang
  • Publication number: 20200327153
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for providing a multi-profile. A multi-profile providing method may include identifying a relationship between a first member in an online social networking service with each of a plurality of other members in the online social networking service; classifying the plurality of other members into a plurality of groups based on the relationship between the first member and each of the plurality of other members; setting a plurality of profiles of the first member for the plurality of groups, respectively; and in response to a request to provide profile information of the first member being received from a second member among the plurality of other members, identifying one of the plurality of groups to which the second member belongs, and providing the second member with a first profile of the first member that is set for the group to which the second member belongs, among the plurality of profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyukjae JANG
  • Patent number: 10805100
    Abstract: The chatroom sorting method including recognizing contextual information associated with an event detection point in time and storing the recognized contextual information in association with a conversation related event in response to detecting the conversation related event with respect to each of chatrooms included in a chatroom list, calculating at least one of an activeness score associated with a participation of a user into a conversation for each of the plurality of chatrooms and a similarity score between a situation at a current point in time and the contextual information, and sorting at least a portion of the chatrooms included in the chatroom list based on at least one of the activeness score and the similarity score such that selected one or more chatrooms from among the chatrooms are placed on top of the chatroom list based on results of the sorting may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: LINE Corporation
    Inventor: Hyukjae Jang
  • Patent number: 10798032
    Abstract: According to at least one example embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a computer program that is combined with an electronic apparatus embodied via a computer and is stored in a computer-readable recording medium so as to execute a messenger service method including extracting input time information from input data included in a message; calculating output time information according to each of output units based on the input time information; and generating output data including the output time information for display on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Line Corporation
    Inventor: Seok Ju Hong
  • Patent number: 10798038
    Abstract: A communication control method is for performing a process executed by a computer including a processor. The process includes storing, in a storage device of an information processing apparatus, a correspondence relationship of a first user, a second user associated with the first user, and a third user associated with the second user; receiving, at the information processing apparatus, a message from the first user to the third user, from a terminal of the first user; and sending, by the information processing apparatus, the message received from the terminal of the first user as a message from the second user, to a terminal of the third user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10791211
    Abstract: A display controlling method includes displaying content in a first display area on a screen of a terminal; determining whether the content is viewed; and moving the content from the first display area to a second display area in order to display the content if it is determined that the content is not viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Senoo, Hiroyuki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10782869
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an operating unit, and a control unit for switching, when dragging is performed which is an operation to change a predetermined value via the operating unit, between changing the value by an amount equivalent to the amount of dragging, and setting a change speed of the value according to the dragging and continue to change the value at the change speed, according to the position of an ending point as to a starting point of the dragging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10778855
    Abstract: In one or more example embodiments, a method includes receiving, at a server, primary content and location information from one or more of a plurality of user devices, the location information corresponding to a location at which the primary content is created. The method further includes creating secondary content according to at least one of the primary content, the location information and additional information associated with the primary content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Il Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 10771411
    Abstract: A display method is a display method of displaying a message on a terminal, and includes receiving a message from another terminal different from the terminal, associating the message and a time at which the message is received to store the message and the time in a storage unit, and displaying a first message stored in the storage unit and a second message different from the first message at an interval based on a difference between a first time associated with the first message and a second time associated with the second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ahi Sercantaha
  • Patent number: 10747417
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation section; and a control section adapted to cause, when dragging is carried out through the operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and execute, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section; the control section changing the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Line Corporation
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10740443
    Abstract: Provided is a method and system for code obfuscation of an application. A method configured as a computer may include receiving an application program package that includes an intermediate language (IL) code generated by compiling code for an application including a plurality of classes and a plurality of methods as a dex file over a network, selecting a protection target class or a protection target method from among the plurality of classes and the plurality of methods, encrypting the selected protection target class or the selected protection target method by retrieving and encrypting an IL code corresponding to the selected protection target class or the selected protection target method from the dex file, and adding decryption information for decrypting the encrypted protection target class or the encrypted protection target method to a secure module that is further included in the application program package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Line Corporation
    Inventors: SangHun Jeon, Dongpil Seo, Sungbeom Ahn, Kwang-Hee Han, Wang Jin Oh, Seong Yeol Lim
  • Patent number: 10735352
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives messages from terminals of a plurality of users constituting a group, a storage unit that stores reception times of the messages, a transmission unit that transmits the message, to a terminal of at least one user, a specification unit that specifies an unread message for which a reception time difference for a predetermined number of continuous messages, among a plurality of the unread messages, satisfies a predetermined condition, as a trigger message, based on the reception time of an unread message for which read information is not received from the terminal of the user, the read information indicating that the message has been viewed, and a generation unit that generates display information for displaying information regarding the trigger message on a display unit of the terminal of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Saito
  • Publication number: 20200225832
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: a receiving step for receiving a message; an outputting step of outputting display information for associating and displaying the message received in the reception step with an icon associated with an account that is associated with the user that has transmitted the message; and a changing step of changing the ion associated with the account that has transmitted the message, if the message includes icon information to be displayed as the speaker of the message. When the changing step has changed the icon, the outputting step outputs display information for associating and displaying the message received in the receiving step with the changed icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei NIKI, Takumi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200228483
    Abstract: An information providing system and apparatus, and method and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing location information using an image through a communication session may include connecting, at an electronic device, to a communication session with at least one another electronic device over a network receiving, at the electronic device, an image including location information from the other electronic device through the communication session, displaying, at the electronic device, the received image or information about the received image on a screen of the electronic device, providing, at the electronic device, a user interface for providing a link service associated with the image displayed on the screen or the information displayed on the screen, and providing, at the electronic device, a link service selected through the user interface based on the location information included in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: LINE Corporation
    Inventor: SeungJun LEE
  • Publication number: 20200220907
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for enhancing a video quality of a video call. A video call method may enhance and thereby forward a picture quality of a main object or a main portion in a video and thereby enhance a picture quality of experience of a recipient of a video call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: In Won CHO, Jungjun PARK, Jongjin CHO, Dongwon LEE
  • Publication number: 20200219183
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for providing convenience functions related to an account transaction history based on a messenger. An account transaction history providing method includes loading a transaction history of an account based on receiving a transaction history request for the account; verifying information on a messenger that matches a counterpart included in the transaction history; and displaying transaction details for each transaction of the transaction history through a chatroom created for the account based on a message in association with a profile set as user information of the counterpart on a messenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sun-Haeng CHO, Ji Yeon CHEON
  • Publication number: 20200213635
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for video quality control. A quality control method may include: receiving a video stream including frames classified into a plurality of frame types based on a reference relationship between the frames for decoding; selecting a frame type among the plurality of frame types; and controlling a quality of the video stream by multiplexing the frames included in the video stream and by outputting one or more of the frames that have the selected frame type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joonsick BAICK, Geum Yong Yoo
  • Patent number: 10693822
    Abstract: A message providing method includes: extracting a keyword from a message; searching a list of messages to extract a related message associated with the keyword, the messages communicated between a user and a conversational partner or between the user and a third party; and linking the related message to the keyword by a hyperlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LINE Corporation
    Inventor: Il Gu Lee
  • Patent number: D896808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: NAVER Corporation, LINE Corporation
    Inventor: Young In Koh
  • Patent number: D897678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: LINE Corporation, NAVER Corporation
    Inventor: Young In Koh