Patents Assigned to NHN Entertainment Corporation
  • Patent number: 10773166
    Abstract: A game scrapbook system associated with a game progress includes: a data table setting setup information by recording at least one game environment associated with a generation of a predetermined event signal; an event signal generation unit generating the event signal when a game environment according to a game progress corresponds to at least a portion of the setup information; an image capturing unit, in response to the event signal, capturing a game image to generate game image information; and an image transmission unit transmitting the generated game image information to a remote location in a network using a network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Mi Jin Kwon
  • Patent number: 10776324
    Abstract: A method and a system for integrally managing at least one cloud storage in a system for managing cloud storage implemented by a computer may include: configuring a network drive for a first cloud storage on a first server related to the system for managing cloud storage which is assigned to a user of a first electronic device; linking a second cloud storage on a second server used by the user; and integrally managing the first cloud storage and the second cloud storage through the network drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Eunsung Yl, Jihoon Jo, Yonghee Lee, Nam Jug Kim, Nam Kyung Kim, Jiyoon Bang, Beom Seok Jang, HongSeok Choi, DongWoo Kim, Min Hyeong Kim, MinKyu Lee, Yeonseong Chae, Yong Seok Hong, CheolHyeon Jo, JiHae Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Jin Kyung Lyu, SeYoung Jang, YunJung Woo, Eunsook Jin
  • Patent number: 10664891
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented method of enabling a recommendation of a software to a user from a software marketplace based on activities of the user's friend of an internet-based social network who is related to the first user within the confines of the social network, said user maintaining an internet-based social network account, the method comprising: receiving, from the first user, a selection of an interface associated with the software marketplace, generating, by a computer-implemented recommendation system, a list of recommended software based on the internet-based social network into which the first user is logged into, sending the list of the of recommended software to the first user, wherein the computer-implemented recommendation system retrieves the information of the user's friend and assigns a weight to a post not displayed based on an attribute thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Yuwon Kim, Injae Song, Young Jun Hong, You Young Kim, Jin Kyo Chung
  • Patent number: 10652548
    Abstract: A video system for minimizing streaming latency is disclosed. The video system includes an encoder having a data input part receiving external streaming video data, a data conversion part converting the external streaming video data to output converted video data, a first buffer receiving the converted video data, a data measurement part measuring size of the converted video data and conversion time spent for converting the streaming data, and a latency determination part comparing the size and the conversion time, respectively, to a reference size and a reference time to determine latency; and a decoder having a second buffer receiving the converted video data from the first buffer. The latency determination part transmitting the determined result to the data input part and the data input part outputs a latest streaming video data in response to determination that the first buffer or second buffer will be in underflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Hye-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 10601906
    Abstract: A method to load balance via a load balancing node in a virtual network environment, the method including: receiving a request packet from a client through a router; selecting, via a load balancer of the load balancing node, a backend virtual machine server to receive the received request packet; generating, via a virtual switch of the load balancing node, a packet for virtual networking by overlaying information for transmitting the received request packet to the selected backend virtual machine server through a virtual network to the received request packet; and transmitting the generated packet for virtual networking to a hypervisor node including the selected backend virtual machine server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Seong Woo Park
  • Patent number: 10572066
    Abstract: A system for calibrating touch error in a touch interface includes an object recognizing unit to recognize at least one object input through a touch interface from a plurality of objects on a touch keyboard; a target object determining unit to determine whether the recognized object corresponds to a target object that a user intended to input; a storing control unit to match and store location information corresponding to the recognized object and at least one location information corresponding to the target object; and a calibrating unit to calibrate the recognized object input through the touch interface to the target object based on the matched and stored location information. Methods for calibrating touch error are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Chuljae Lim
  • Patent number: 10560266
    Abstract: A system and method of managing multiple identities using a multiple identity management system includes receiving a user authentication signal from a user terminal, transmitting the user authentication signal to a first service server, the first service server matching the user authentication signal with a particular user ID associated with the first service server, receiving an authorization signal corresponding to the user authentication signal from the first service server, transmitting the authorization signal to the user terminal, receiving a request for validation of a user identification number corresponding to the authorization signal from a second service server, the second service server receiving the authorization signal transmitted via a user input from the user terminal, and transmitting the user identification number corresponding to the authorization signal to the second service server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Yuik Yim, Cheolmin Ju
  • Patent number: 10537789
    Abstract: A game server includes: a main processing unit, connected to a user terminal via a data network, configured to perform user login; and a game processing unit configured to control the user terminal to execute a puzzle game in response to a game execution request signal from the user terminal. The game processing unit is configured to: control the user terminal to display colored blocks arranged in a matrix form of N rows and M columns in a puzzle game area, and to display one game character in an action display area; exchange a selected block with another neighboring block based on user input; determine if a matching block group of at least three consecutive blocks having the same color results from the block exchanging step; remove the matching block group; and control the game character to perform an action according to a result of the block removing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Jung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 10375224
    Abstract: A mobile device providing integrated management of message information and service provision through artificial intelligence is disclosed. The mobile device includes an integrated message management unit comprising a message monitoring unit configured to monitor voice call information and text message information in association with the voice call management part and the text message management part, a message information managing unit configured to generate integrated message information, which is to be provided to a user, based on the voice call information and the text message information, an interface managing unit configured to generate an integrated message management user interface displaying the integrated message information, and an artificial intelligence agent analyzing the voice call information and the text message information and providing a service associated with at least one additional function in association with the additional function process part based on the analyzed result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Dong Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 10356134
    Abstract: A method of downloading a resource in a mobile environment includes detecting an attempt to access at least one server from a mobile terminal, executing a thread for each server to which the attempt to access is made, based on a multi-thread, downloading a resource of the at least one server through the corresponding thread, the resource being compressed based on a file unit, and unpacking the compressed resource, in which the threads are executed in parallel in the order of servers to which the attempt to access is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoung Ryeol Jang, KiHuen Lee, Dong Soo Lee, Tae Gyeong Kim, WooJin Cho
  • Patent number: 10296304
    Abstract: A computer-implemented data analysis method including the steps of: providing a block for each group, in which the blocks are mapped to have different shapes from each other, and the groups are classified based on an attribute of a programming language-based function and instruction; providing a user interface for receiving the block selected by a user; generating a data analysis flow based on a user creation block that is generated when the selected blocks are combined in the user interface; transforming the data analysis flow to a programming language-based data analysis code through a language transform engine; and performing a data analysis based on the transformed data analysis code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Min Kang, Young Il Cho, Chanwoo Yang, Kyeong Won Seo, Sol Kim
  • Patent number: 10284687
    Abstract: A method of processing, at a web server, a long-polling between a client and a service server configured to provision a service to the client over a network includes: receiving, at the web server, a poll request from the client; transmitting, via the web server, the poll request to the service server; receiving, at the web server, a poll reply to the poll request from the service server; generating, at the web server, webpage data based on the data in the poll reply; and transmitting, via the web server, the webpage data to the client as the poll reply. The poll reply received at the web server includes data to be applied in association with the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN Studio629 Corporation
    Inventor: Chuljae Lim
  • Patent number: 10275125
    Abstract: It is an object to easily edit data having a plurality of pages. A program according to this invention causes a computer to cause a display unit to display at least one page of a plurality of pages arranged in accordance with a predetermined layout and an interchanging operation image for changing the layout by interchanging the position of a first page included in the at least one page with the position of a second page in a mode of specifying the first page and the second page, change the layout so as to interchange the first page with the second page upon accepting an operation on the interchanging operation image, and obtain image data representing one image by arranging images on the plurality of pages in accordance with the layout and connecting the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: NHN COMICO CORPORATION, NHN ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Konokawa
  • Patent number: 10269218
    Abstract: A method of providing prescheduling of the betting action in advance of a user turn in an online card game services performed by a game service server, the method including: providing a first user interface displaying betting options on a first user terminal, each of the betting options including a betting action associated with a betting action of an opponent having a higher-priority; receiving a user input selecting a first betting option from the betting options; receiving a second betting action of the opponent from a second user terminal; determining whether the predetermined condition is satisfied by comparing the betting action of the opponent of the predetermined condition with the second betting action, before the user turn; and executing automatically a first betting action in response to determining the predetermined condition is satisfied on the user turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Ki Yong Kim, Tae Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 10260766
    Abstract: An air handling system includes an indirect heat exchanger, a first circulation equipment, a second circulation equipment, a third circulation equipment, a direct adjusting apparatus, a first sensor configured to detect a state of a first air, a second sensor configured to detect a state of a second air, and a control apparatus configured to receive the state of the first air, receive the state of the second air, and control at least one of a circulation of the first air within the first circulation equipment, a circulation of second air within the second circulation equipment, a liquid injection by a vaporization part, an exchange of the second air with the first air with the third circulation equipment, and a direct adjustment of the second air with the direct adjusting apparatus based on the received state of the first air and the received state of the second air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Joo-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10237605
    Abstract: An input/output system and a method for a set-top box using a terminal include making a connection with the terminal including a display unit or a speaker through wired or wireless communication, determining whether the terminal is in a receive enable state for image data or audio data, and sharing the image data or the audio data with the terminal by transmitting the image data or the audio data to the terminal to output an image through the display unit of the terminal or to output audio through the speaker of the terminal, when the terminal is in the receive enable state for the image data or the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoung Hwan Oak, Hyeyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10206615
    Abstract: A reliable content evaluation method and system are disclosed. The system includes a brainwave detector, a bio signal detector, a first controller, and a second controller. The brainwave detector detects a brainwave signal of a subject provided with content and outputs a result. The bio signal detector detects bio signals of the subject and outputs a result. The first controller can modify the brainwave and the bio signals to a signal level available for the second controller. The second controller detects change of the brainwave signal and the bio signal through an analysis of the brain wave signal and the bio signal from the first controller. Then, the second controller determines at least one of a degree of engagement and an emotional reaction of the subject to the content, using changes in the brainwave signal and the bio signal, and evaluates the content using the determined results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Kyung Soon Shin
  • Patent number: D847204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Geonho Son, Hyoungsun Park, Dongin Kim, Jihwan Ha, Joon Ho Na, Pyoung Sun Park
  • Patent number: D847205
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Geonho Son, Hyoungsun Park, Dongin Kim, Jihwan Ha, Joon Ho Na, Pyoung Sun Park
  • Patent number: D847206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Geonho Son, Hyoungsun Park, Dongin Kim, Jihwan Ha, Joon Ho Na, Pyoung Sun Park