Patents Assigned to NHN Corporation
  • Patent number: 8441478
    Abstract: Disclosed are image resource loading system and method, the system comprising a basic recording space for partitioning a game map into at least one cell and maintaining an object by unit of the cell, a loading target identification unit identifying a cell becoming a target for loading and an object associated with the cell in the basic recording space, in case that a loading event occurs, an order determination unit giving a loading order to the object associated with the cell in accordance with a predetermined determination criterion, and a processor unit loading the object by referring to the given loading order, wherein the order determination unit determines the loading order by considering the size of the object or whether the object is positioned within a predetermined range of the visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Dae Il Kim
  • Patent number: 8434089
    Abstract: Disclosed are image resource loading method comprising the steps of: identifying source data associated with a particular cell from a predetermined basic recording space, in case that a rendering event for the cell occurs; sequentially moving (5) unit source data constituting the identified source data to a first loading queue by a predetermined period; determining loading fitness with respect to the unit source data positioned at the first loading queue in accordance with a predetermined determination standard, in which the loading fitness is divided into a pass or non-pass; moving the unit source data to a second loading queue in case that it is determined that the loading (10) fitness is non-pass; loading the unit source data positioned at the first loading queue to a predetermined graphic memory at the processor unit, in case that it is determined that the loading fitness is a pass; and rendering the unit source data loaded to the graphic memory at a predetermined video processor unit; wherein, in the ste
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Dae Il Kim
  • Patent number: 8425327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an online game system for providing position information of a game character in an online game, and more particularly, to a method and an online game system for providing position information of a game character in an online game by interworking with a predetermined messenger server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Soo Na Bae, Hyo Joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20130091524
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for providing an integrated electronic program guide (EPG). An image display apparatus may receive signals from a plurality of input sources via at least one port, may identify the plurality of input sources, may receive EPG information of each of the plurality of input sources, and may generate an integrated EPG by integrating the received EPG information. Using the integrated EPG, a user of the image display apparatus may select and view all the contents that are provided by the plurality of input sources, without a need to select a predetermined input source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: NHN Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130091018
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, a server, and a computer readable recording medium for providing social-commerce deals with route information. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing social-commerce deals with route information executed by a social-commerce server, method including receiving route request information from a user terminal and calculating route information based on the received route request information, extracting recommendation social-commerce deal information based on the calculated route information, and providing the calculated route information and the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: NHN CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130085667
    Abstract: A geographic information providing system in a personal webpage is disclosed. The geographic information providing system can include a GPS information storing unit, receiving GPS coordinate information related to a location of a user and additional information from a mobile communication terminal and storing the received GPS coordinate information and additional information; a map data loading unit, loading map data having a location corresponding to the GPS coordinate information if a request to access the stored GPS coordinate information and additional information is received; and a temporary layer generating controlling unit, generating a temporary layer to mark the location corresponding to the GPS coordinate information on a loaded map in a form capable of being identified by the user and providing control information for displaying the location corresponding to the GPS coordinate information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chan-Young KWON, Jae-Kyu KIM
  • Patent number: 8412790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, system and computer readable recording medium for determining a major group in a network split-brain situation that occurs in a network-based distributed computing environment. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of determining a major group among at least two groups created by splitting an initial group consisting of a plurality of nodes in a network-based distributed environment, the method comprising the steps of comparing the number of nodes included in a first group with the number of nodes included in a second group; acquiring history information of the nodes included in the first and second groups; and determining whether the first group or the second group is the major group using at least one of a result of comparing the number of nodes and the history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Tak Kiel Shim
  • Publication number: 20130061166
    Abstract: A terminal device for executing an application providing a search service is provided. The terminal device may include a touch sensing display, one or more processors, and a memory. The application is configured to be stored in the memory and implemented by the one or more processors, and includes a first interface providing a code to display a first search interface corresponding to a text-based search on the touch sensing display, and a second interface providing a code to display a second search interface on the touch sensing display, when a call interaction of the second search interface corresponding to a recognition search is sensed in response to a touch input on the touch sensing display while displaying the first search interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Joo SEO, Maria PARK, Yeo Ree KIM, Jeong Hoon LIM
  • Patent number: 8380814
    Abstract: An automatic favorites registration method and system which can automatically register a website address of a particular website when a local computer accesses the particular website, and also can adjustably determine whether to add the website address to favorites by avoiding an unconditional automatic registration of the website address to the favorites and considering a user's access trend. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an automatic favorites registration method and system which can automatically register a website which a local computer accesses, and also can register only an additional website which is determined to be optimal for a user's convenience, or maintain a favorites registration of the website according to the user's recent search trend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Yong-Jae Kwak, Se Jin Cheon, Tae Hyeon Park, Sungwon Kim, Jang Won Seo, Beom Seok Seo
  • Publication number: 20130041911
    Abstract: An approach is provided for search services. User-defined search input is received by at least one processor. At least a portion of the user-defined search input is determined, via the at least one processor, as corresponding to at least one functional keyword associated with a type of object to be searched. Classification information is generated to facilitate identification of the at least one functional keyword among at least one other portion of the user-defined search input. Search information is generated about at least one object relating to at least some of the user-defined search input based on at least some of the classification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Wook KIM
  • Patent number: 8373712
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, system and computer-readable medium for providing image data. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method of providing image data includes storing a particular region on image data in association with a keyword, comparing conditional information with the keyword associated with the particular region, when receiving the conditional information from a user terminal unit, and controlling a display state of the image data to allow the particular region to be displayed on a screen of the user terminal unit. When a user inputs a keyword including content relating to a geographical feature or object, an actual shape of the geographical feature or object can be displayed on a screen of the user terminal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Seung Phill Lim
  • Publication number: 20130036121
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for recommending a blog. The blog recommendation system includes a segmentation unit to classify blogs according to at least one category of age and gender of a user, an extraction unit to extract a plurality of search terms retrieved by a user corresponding to the category, a cluster unit to learn the search terms into a document in the classified blogs and to group the search terms into at least one cluster, a generation unit to generate a blog pool related to the search terms included in the cluster, and a recommendation unit to provide the user with at least one blog in the blog pool as a recommended blog.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yeon Jeong KIM, Joongoo LEE
  • Patent number: 8370131
    Abstract: A method for providing a dictionary service to a terminal, includes: providing a dictionary service window in or near a web browser for displaying a webpage through a screen of the terminal if a certain item for executing dictionary services in the terminal is clicked; (b) receiving a query inputted in the provided dictionary service window wherein the query includes a query for requesting meaning, a query for requesting pronunciation, or both; and (c) searching and providing a translation data corresponding to the query for requesting meaning or a pronunciation data corresponding to the query for requesting pronunciation. The method provides a translation data and/or pronunciation data of a word or expression which the user wants to find out while web surfing through the dictionary service window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Choi, Je Eon Jeon, SooHyun Yoo, Sung Won Lee, Tae Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8370379
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a query using an image is disclosed. A search keyword is determined using an image and position information of a terminal that are received from the terminal. Search queries associated with the determined search keyword are provided to the terminal. Lower search queries may be provided to the terminal if one of the provided search queries is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Gunhan Park, Byounghak Kim, Dong Wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20130024461
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for providing a location-sensitive auto-complete query. The system includes at least one processor; a memory to store at least one program configured to be executed by the at least one processor; a keyword generating unit to generate a keyword based on the query inputted from a user terminal and location information received from the user terminal; and a query providing unit to provide an auto-complete query corresponding to the generated keyword among the auto-complete queries indexed according to location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Jun Lee, Taeil Kim
  • Publication number: 20130021368
    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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Jungmin LEE, Bo Yoon Choi, Hyun Jung Lim, Byoung Chan Woo
  • Publication number: 20130024917
    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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Chul HAN, Kyungsoo BAE, Jung Doo PARK, Pyoung Oh YUN
  • Publication number: 20130013400
    Abstract: Provided is a cloud-based document linking system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for aligning a document stored on a cloud-based cross-clipboard and providing the document along with a linkable service. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device if the at least one first document is requested to be copied onto the cross-clipboard. If the at least one first document is stored on the cloud-based cross-clipboard, the providing unit is configured to align each first document according to an order based on a reference standard, and provide at least one advertisement corresponding to each first document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: DongWook KIM
  • Publication number: 20130013986
    Abstract: Provided is a cloud-based document link system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for providing a service configured to paste a document stored on a cross-clipboard. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device, an identification unit configured to identify at least one second service linkable with each first document based on whether the at least one second service is configured to paste the at least one first document stored on the cross-clipboard, and a providing unit configured to provide a list of each second service if the cross-clipboard is accessed through a second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: DongWook KIM
  • Publication number: 20130013987
    Abstract: Provided is a cloud-based document link system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for connecting a document between services. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device, an identification unit configured to identify at least one second service linkable with each first document, and a providing unit configured to provide a list of each second service in response to an access of the cross-clipboard through a second device, and to provide the second device with a second document associated with the at least one second service in response to a selection of the at least one second service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventor: DongWook KIM