Patents Assigned to NHN
  • 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: 9248371
    Abstract: Disclosed is an on-line role-playing game system and method in which buildings arranged on a road map are developed according to a degree of experience of a user who performs a quest. The method includes the steps of a) by a gamer, accessing an on-line role-playing game server; b) by the gamer, executing the on-line role-playing game; c) by the gamer, performing a quest of the on-line role-playing game; d) updating a degree of experience of the gamer when the gamer accomplishes the quest; and e) developing a building arranged on a road map for the performance of the quest in correspondence with the degree of experience of the gamer. According to the present invention, by applying a building development process to an on-line role-playing game, a limited map for progressing an RPG game story can be efficiently utilized, and, in addition, diverse maps reflecting characteristics of gamers who access the same game for a long time can be provided without imposing a burden on a game server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Sang-Bum Lim, Kyoung-Min Hwang
  • Patent number: 9242173
    Abstract: A game scrap 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: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Mi Jin Kwon
  • 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: 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: 9233311
    Abstract: A ranking method and system for providing a ranking of a game group is disclosed. The method includes creating a game group including a user and at least one member among the user's registered friends who have joined a game service, based on a game group creation request received from a user terminal. The method further comprises calculating a ranking of the user with respect to other members of the created game group based on a ranking inquiry request received from the user terminal, and providing the user terminal with the calculated ranking of the user. The user terminal drives a game service platform associated with a plurality of games and provides the game group creation request information and the ranking inquiry request information through the game service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Seong Youn Joo, Kyung E Moon
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9196117
    Abstract: A game support system includes a DB server for storing in a DB user information including a user's unique identification and the user's own money, a web server for posting information about a plurality of game rooms, and a game processing server for admitting the user to a game room selected by the user from among the plurality of game rooms and processing a game in the selected game room. The game support system further includes a participation money designation server for providing an input window to allow the user to designate a part of the user's own money as participation money required for participation in the selected game room. The system, for example, allows the user to continue to play a game without moving out to another portal or game site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Ki Yong Kim, Jung Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 9171309
    Abstract: A method and system for computing an expert point value of a user for each keyword is provided, including: a first step of assigning a first knowledge-based expert rating value associated with a keyword to a user identifier of a user which enters the keyword into an expert field; a second step of assigning a second knowledge-based expert rating value associated with the keyword to the user identifier when another user stores the keyword to correspond to the user identifier; a third step of assigning a third knowledge-based expert rating value associated with the keyword to the user identifier when the user of the user identifier performs an answer activity for the keyword; and a fourth step of computing the knowledge-based expert rating value of the user identifier for the keyword based on at least one of the first, the second, and the third knowledge-based expert rating values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventors: Mihyang An, Soyoun Park
  • Patent number: 9159110
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for sharing reliable information or knowledge with regard to a question using an on-line human network. The on-line human network-based knowledge sharing method is to share knowledge based on an acquaintance information database. The database stores the IDs of a plurality of users, and the correspondence relationships of the user IDs, which represent acquaintanceships between the users on the on-line human network. The method includes allowing a first user to write a question message in a form that can be forwarded through the network, generating a question ID for identifying the question message and storing the generated question ID, causing the ID of the first user to correspond to the question ID, allowing a second user who is acquainted with the first user to receive the message, and causing the ID of the second user to correspond to the question ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Joon Hyoung, Kwang Yong Choi
  • Patent number: 9149726
    Abstract: A ranking method and system for providing a ranking of a game group is disclosed. The method includes creating a game group including a user and at least one member among the user's registered friends who have joined a game service, based on a game group creation request received from a user terminal. The method further comprises calculating a ranking of the user with respect to other members of the created game group based on a ranking inquiry request received from the user terminal, and providing the user terminal with the calculated ranking of the user. The user terminal drives a game service platform associated with a plurality of games and provides the game group creation request information and the ranking inquiry request information through the game service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NHN Enterntainment Corporation
    Inventors: Seong Youn Joo, Kyung E Moon
  • Patent number: 9141697
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, system and software executable by a processor associated with non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for detecting a trap of web-based calendar pages and building a retrieval database. According to an aspect of the disclosure, detecting a trap of web-based calendar pages includes clustering, by a clustering module, URLs corresponding to web pages stored in a database according to a predetermined standard, generating a regular expression by analyzing a date pattern included in a clustering result, and detecting, a cluster suspected of being a trap of web-based perpetual calendar pages using the generated regular expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Yun Sim, Chaehyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9138643
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an online flash game system and method, a flash game web page providing method, a web server for providing web pages for flash game execution, and a storage medium for recording method programs. When a flash game execution is selected, a skin flash module performs a skin flash, which is a frame on a flash game screen, on a user terminal screen, and controls a UI flash module and a game contents flash module. The skin flash module displays the skin flash, which is a frame on the flash game screen, on the user terminal screen, and controls the UI flash module and the game contents flash module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Zoo Il Yang
  • Publication number: 20150258445
    Abstract: A game method and a game system to perform the game method and embodied as a computer, the method including verifying, from a team of a user configured during a game, a chemistry level set based on a relationship between characters constituting a team, and graphically displaying the relationship between the characters on a screen based on the chemistry level. The game may be performed by applying the chemistry level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicants: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN BlackcPick Corporation
    Inventors: Kieran Kyunghoon PARK, Hyun Chul LEE
  • Publication number: 20150258449
    Abstract: A game method and a game system to perform the method and embodied as a computer, the method including configuring a level-based league for teams of users, performing a league game between teams included in the level-based league at predetermined time intervals regardless of whether the users connect to the game system, providing runtime broadcasting information about the league game to a terminal of a user in response to a request for observing the league game from the user that connects to the game system over a network, during a period in which the league game is ongoing, and calculating and managing a progress result of the league game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicants: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN BlackPick Corporation
    Inventors: Gu Young JEONG, Sung Sik LIM
  • Publication number: 20150258455
    Abstract: A game method and a game system to perform the method and embodied as a computer, the method including configuring a level-based league for teams of users, performing a league game between teams included in the level-based league at predetermined time intervals regardless of whether the users connect to the game system, providing runtime broadcasting information about the league game to a terminal of a user in response to a request for observing the league game from the user that connects to the game system over a network, during a period in which the league game is ongoing, and calculating and managing a progress result of the league game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicants: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN BlackPick Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Soo Lee, Jong Hwa Oh
  • Patent number: 9128982
    Abstract: A search system includes a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, and a computing device. A term extracting unit causes the computing device to extract multiple terms from an input query, a weight computing unit causes the computing device to compute a weight for each of the multiple terms, and a reduction query recommending unit causes the computing device to remove at least one term from the multiple terms, based on the weight, and to provide at least one reduced query using remaining terms. A search method that uses a computing device to provide a reduced query, the method includes extracting multiple terms from an input query; computing, by the computing device, a weight of each of the multiple terms; and removing at least one term from the multiple terms, based on the weight, and providing at least one reduced query generated using remaining terms out of the multiple terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Choi, Ji Seoung Kim, Youn Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 9123181
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of creating a pleasure image file comprising a plurality of images. The method comprises providing a plurality of still image files for use in creating a pleasure image file comprising a plurality of still images from the plurality of still image files and receiving an input indicative of a sequence for displaying the plurality of still images when playing the pleasure image file. Incorporating some effects for each still image in creating the image file comprises assigning a period during which each still image is to be displayed on a screen, adding a display special effect to be used while displaying the at least one still image, and creating the pleasure image file configured to display the plurality of still images on a screen in accordance with the sequence each for the assigned period, wherein the at least one still image is to be displayed with the display special effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: NHN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyung Ran Lee, Soon Ho Kwon, Joon-kee Chang, HoJin Jang, Dong Ho Park, Soon Sik So
  • Patent number: 9104681
    Abstract: A social network service (SNS) system and method for recommending a friend of a friend based on an intimacy between users are provided. The SNS system includes an extracting unit to extract communication information from each of a friend relationship between a user and a first-group friend and a friend relationship between the user and a second-group friend. The system also includes a calculating unit to calculate an intimacy of each of the friend relationships based on the extracted communication information. The system includes a generating unit to generate a list of recommended second-group friends based on the calculated intimacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NHN Corporation
    Inventor: Ho Sung Kang