Patents Assigned to NHN Corporation
  • Patent number: 9479839
    Abstract: Provided is a method and system for providing a representative phrase with respect to a real time popular keyword, which may determine programs including a popular keyword from broadcast information, and may generate a representative phrase with respect to the popular keyword using the determined programs, thereby providing the representative phrase by combining the generated representative phrase and the popular keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Seung Shin, Young Sub Park, Jae Keol Choi, Won Sook Noh
  • Patent number: 9477769
    Abstract: A method for detecting an original document of a web document, which is able to thwart manipulation of generation time of the web document. The method for detecting an original document of a web document comprises receiving history information on the generation or modification of web documents; filtering the web documents using the history information; and detecting an original document of the filtered web documents based on the history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: ChangHee Lee
  • Patent number: 9471896
    Abstract: Provided is a memo synchronization system, a mobile system, and a method for synchronizing memo data. The memo synchronization system includes a storage device, an authentication unit configured to authenticate a user by receiving authentication information of the user from a mobile terminal via a memo application installed in the mobile terminal, and a synchronization unit stored on the storage device and configured to synchronize memo data stored in the mobile terminal with memo data stored in a web storage space of an online memo service based on a request for synchronization transmitted from the mobile terminal through the memo application. The request for synchronization includes a synchronization request generated by the memo application according to an event set by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Chul Han, Kyungsoo Bae, Jung Doo Park, Pyoung Oh Yun
  • Patent number: 9460113
    Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments of the invention, a location-based keyword recommending system and method are provided. The location-based keyword recommending system may include a keyword collecting unit to store location information regarding a location where a keyword is input, a region setting unit to set a virtual region by performing clustering of the location information with reference to the keyword, a region combining unit to combine virtual regions overlapping each other into one virtual region, and a keyword recommending unit to provide a location-based keyword based on the keyword related to the location information of the virtual region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Hak Kim, Chae Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9460202
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for providing music related information by searching audio DNA information related to music output through, for example, a TV. The method including: receiving an audio DNA and broadcasting information of broadcasted music; identifying, using the music search server, the broadcasted music by determining whether the received broadcasting information matches music information and broadcast time of one of a plurality of broadcasting programs or advertisements, and comparing, when the determining fails to match the broadcasted music, the received audio DNA with audio DNA of the music pieces to identify the broadcasted music; searching detailed information on music identified by the audio DNA searcher; and transmitting the detailed information search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Seok Yang, Man Ho Won, Sae Rin Kim, Won Joon Choi
  • Patent number: 9456080
    Abstract: Disclosed are a presence based telephony system and a call routing method thereof. The telephony system includes a presence server for managing presence of telephone service subscribers, and it routes the call dialed to the subscriber to one of the subscriber's wired/wireless telephone terminal or a VoIP terminal accessed through a VoIP gateway according to the subscriber's presence information established in the presence server. According to the present invention, the user uses a VoIP terminal connected to the Internet to receive calls generated to the previously subscribed wired/wireless telephone number without spatial restrictions. Also, the user can use the wired/wireless telephone service without an additional communication device if he has a VoIP terminal connected to the Internet when he buys no expensive telephone at the time of subscribing to a wired telephone service or a mobile telephone service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Jang Won Moon, Jung Hun Moon
  • Patent number: 9448999
    Abstract: A method for detecting similar documents includes extracting an entity from each of a first web document and a second web document; determining an importance contribution element corresponding to each of the web documents; calculating, using the processor, weights for each entity based on the determined importance contribution elements; and determining whether the web documents are similar documents based on the calculated weights. A device to detect similar documents includes a storage device; an entity extractor stored on the storage device and configured to extract an entity from a first web document and a second web document and to determine an importance contribution element from each of the web documents; a weight calculator configured to calculate weights of each entity based on the determined importance contribution elements; and a similar document detection unit configured to determine whether the web documents are similar documents based on the calculated weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Chae Hyun Lee, Dong Yun Sim
  • Patent number: 9414006
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for providing a recommendation keyword having a high correlation with the content and reflecting the viewers' interests. A prospective viewer group of the content is generated by a broadcast time and a keyword of a specific broadcast content and a keyword set is generated by selecting keywords having a higher correlation with the content than a threshold value from among search words transmitted by the prospective viewer for a predetermined time period including a time before/after the broadcast time of the content. A keyword for each play time period is extracted from the keyword set by using the number of searches for each keyword therein for each play time period and the recommendation keyword for each play time period is stored, which is synchronized with play time of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: In Jae Song, Yu Won Kim, Dong Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 9372847
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, device and computer readable recording medium for preventing an input error when information is inputted through a touch screen. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for preventing an input error when information is inputted through a touch screen, including the steps of sensing a start and a finish of a touch on the touch screen and acquiring input data corresponding to a point where the touch is finished when the finish of the touch is sensed, and performing a grammar check on the acquired input data and displaying the input data if the input data is determined to be grammatically correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Seung Phill Lim
  • Patent number: 9374694
    Abstract: A social network service providing system and method for setting a relationship between users based on a motion of a mobile terminal, and information about time. The social network service providing system may include a request receiver to receive, from a mobile terminal, a request generated in accordance with a motion of the mobile terminal, an information providing unit to provide location information of the mobile terminal, and information about at least one of a local time when the request is transmitted by the mobile terminal, and an arrival time when the request is received, a mobile terminal identifying unit to identify at least one other mobile terminal based on the location information and the information about the at least one of the local time and the arrival time, and a user information providing unit to provide information about a user of the at least one other mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Curtis Youhan Chung
  • Patent number: 9318111
    Abstract: A voice/speech recognition client system, a voice recognition server system, and a voice recognition method. The voice recognition system indicates a result of voice recognition in a voice signal inputted from a starting time for voice recognition to an ending time. The voice recognition client comprises: a communication unit that transmits a unit voice signal input at intervals from the starting time to the ending time, to the voice recognition server system at the intervals and receives an intermediate result of voice recognition from the voice recognition server system; and a display unit that displays the intermediate result received between the starting time and the ending time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Ho Lee, Hoon Kim, Dong Ook Koo, Jun Seok Kim, Sang Kyong Kim
  • Patent number: 9313045
    Abstract: The present invention relates a system and method for providing an avatar with variable appearance. When a user is connected through a network, information on the avatar provided to the user is collected. The avatar has at least two exposed units. The user's location on the network is determined, at least one exposed unit is selected from among the plurality of exposed units according to the determined location, and an avatar for displaying the selected exposed unit is generated to the user. The exposed units configuring the avatar are respectively modified according to the user's selection. Therefore, the avatar can be easily displayed on any place on the Internet by controlling the exposed units of the avatar depending on the user's location on the network. Further, the user can combine and modify the avatar in various ways by respectively controlling the exposed units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Young Joo Min, Young Hoon Jung
  • Patent number: 9305215
    Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing a video capture screen includes: a video frame extracting unit extracting at least one frame from a video having a plurality of frames; an extracted frame digitizing unit digitizing features of each of the at least one frame extracted by the video frame extracting unit; an image digitizing unit digitizing features of at least one collected search target image; an image comparing and searching unit comparing the search target image with the at least one frame extracted from the plurality of frames by digitized values of the collected search target image and the at least one frame; and a search result processing unit mapping related information of the collected search target image to a frame coinciding with the search target image and storing the related information in a database, when the extracted at least one frame coinciding with the search target image is present in a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Gunhan Park, Jeanie Jung
  • Patent number: 9276882
    Abstract: Provided are a system and a method for an online fan meeting. The online chat method among a first user and a plurality of second users, includes granting a bilateral chat right to a first group of users selected from the second users for participating in an online chat with the first user, authorizing an online chat communication among the first user and the first group based on the bilateral chat right, and broadcasting the online chat communication to a second group of users selected from the second users. The second group is granted with a unilateral chat right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: KyungTae Mok, Sungwon Jung, YeongMin Choi, Ho Sung Kang, Seok Hyun Jeong, Bohyun Oh
  • Patent number: 9262401
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a representative phrase corresponding to a real time (current time) popular keyword. The method and system may extend a representative criterion word, determined by analyzing morphemes of words in documents grouped into a cluster, and may combine the extended representative criterion word and the popular keyword, thereby providing the representative phrases. The method and system may display the popular keyword and the representative phrases on a web page, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae Seung Shin, Young Sub Park, Jae Keol Choi, Won Sook Noh
  • Patent number: 9262790
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for determining rankings of keywords according to a user group. The keyword ranking determining system includes a data grouping unit to group data of a weblog according to a predetermined theme, a weight application unit to calculate a document concentration that denotes a concentration degree, with respect to the theme, of a document corresponding to the data grouped according to the theme and to apply a weight corresponding to the document concentration to the data, a data set generation unit to generate at least one data set by grouping the data applied with the weight according to a search intention and a ranking determination unit to determine rankings of the at least one data set according to the theme, and a main keyword determination unit to determine a main keyword representing each of the at least one data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Keol Choi, Yu Won Kim, Yeun Ha Park, Hae-Young Kim, Dong Hyun Ban
  • Patent number: 9240962
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a group messaging system for providing file sharing through bidirectional interlock with a cloud server, including: a messenger server receiving information requesting creation of a group chatting room including group members and instructing user terminals of the respective group members to create the group chatting room; and a cloud server interlocking with the messenger server, receiving information about the creation of the group chatting room from the messenger server, and creating a sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Jeanie Jung
  • Patent number: 9241080
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for managing images album-by-album. A communication terminal includes a storage device, a management unit configured to manage images stored on the storage device, album-by-album, and a loading unit configured to load images contained in an album into a server corresponding to a host system on a per album basis in response to a user's setting of sharing attribute of the album as shared with another person. An access permission to the album is granted to the another person so that the another person shares the album with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jungmin Lee, Bo Yoon Choi, Hyun Jung Lim, Byoung Chan Woo
  • Patent number: 9217656
    Abstract: Provided is an Internet telematics service providing system and method that may provide driving information for mileage enhancement. In interaction with a telematics system of a vehicle and a communication terminal of a user, the Internet telematics service providing system may include a data receiver to receive driving data associated with a mileage of the vehicle from the telematics system, a data storage unit to store the driving data in a webpage associated with the user, a data providing unit to provide the stored driving data to the telematics system and/or the communication terminal using a Web service, a guide generator to generate driving guide information of the vehicle based on the driving data, and a guide providing unit to provide the driving guide information to the user using the telematics system and/or the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Kyung Bo Nam, Choong Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 9201951
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for providing search results. The system for providing search results comprises: a keyword-receiving unit which receives a keyword from a user; an exposure-order-applying unit which applies, to a collection search bar, the order of exposure of a collection containing a listing of keyword search results; and a search-result-providing unit which provides the user with a webpage of the keyword search results, said webpage containing the collection search bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Song Hee Lee, Tae Ho Lee