Patents Assigned to Planet Co.
  • Patent number: 10187398
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and apparatus for verifying the validity of a beacon signal. More particularly, the user terminal determines whether authentication information received from a beacon service server and authentication information received from a verification beacon server are the same to allow the received beacon signal to provide only user-desired information to a user, thus allowing the user to focus on purchasing activity in a member shop to increase shopping time and efficiency and promote consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jongwon Woo
  • Patent number: 10185941
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for providing an electronic gift (e-gift), the method including providing information about products to a messenger of a user terminal, selecting at least one e-gift icon, which corresponds to a product to be provided as a gift, when the at least one e-gift icon is selected, displaying a settlement page, which corresponds to the at least one selected e-gift icon, when a settlement corresponding to the at least one selected e-gift icon is finished by the displayed settlement page, transmitting the at least one selected e-gift icon to at least one receipt terminal connected via the messenger, and when the at least one selected e-gift icon is accepted at the at least one receipt terminal, providing the product information of the at least one selected e-gift icon to the at least one receipt terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Lim Choi, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyo-Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 10172535
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a wearable device and method for providing feedback information through vein authentication or the measurement of a body composition. In an aspect, the wearable device may include a measurement module configured to measure the pattern of veins of a user, a communication module configured to send unique bio information about the user measured by the measurement module to a management server along with authentication information and to receive feedback information for the transmitted information from the management server, and a memory module configured to store the pattern of the veins of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daewoo Lee, Seulmaro Jeon
  • Patent number: 10168178
    Abstract: The navigation device according to the present invention comprises a position information identifying unit for identifying at least one of a current moving speed and a position of the moving object, a safety level determining unit for determining safety level information about an output of content based on the at least one of the moving speed and the position of the moving object, a content receiving unit for receiving content via a network, and a control unit for controlling the output of the received content according to the safety level information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10165396
    Abstract: Provided are apparatus and method for activating a wireless communication function automatically for geo-fence, a system comprising the same, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon for providing a content by activating the wireless communication function while entering a geo-fence which is a predetermined virtual area for providing the content based on a current location of a user. Thus, it is possible to greatly improve efficiency of a content providing service using a geo-fence by automatically activating a wireless communication function of user equipment according to whether a user enters the geo-fence to receive store information through communication with a beacon or a WIFI AP provided in the store positioned at the geo-fence and transmitting the corresponding store information to a geo-fence service providing device providing a content related with the store to receive the content corresponding to the store information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seul Ma Ro Jeon, Eun Su Jeong
  • Patent number: 10152701
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of providing a gift icon using a communication network. The method includes: providing, by a terminal, information about products to a messenger, which is a terminal operating software for transmitting and receiving messages and data in real time through a wired communication network; when the terminal selects a product, a counterpart terminal and a request button for a gift request, transmitting, by the terminal, a gift icon corresponding to the product to the counterpart terminal connected with the terminal through the messenger; and when the counterpart terminal selects an acceptance message in response to the gift request, providing, by the counterpart terminal, the gift icon corresponding to the product to the terminal or a first mobile terminal registered in the messenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Lim Choi, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyo-Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 10154395
    Abstract: Provided are a terminal and a service providing device, an electronic wallet system including the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon. That is, according to the present invention, instead of directly sharing a content including personal information displayed in a specific app, such as an electronic wallet app, installed in the terminal with an SNS or the like, the same content, which does not include personal information and is previously stored in the service providing device so as to correspond to the content, is shared through an SNS corresponding to the terminal, so that it is possible to improve convenience of a user and enhance availability of contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Ho Lee, Jong Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 10146847
    Abstract: A system and method for managing a phone number-based Social Network Service (SNS) account. When a phone number change schedule information is received from the user terminal, a phone number change schedule message to user terminals included in a friend list of the corresponding account confirms when authentication of the new SNS account is requested from the user terminal, whether or not the account is an account of the changed phone number for the new authentication request based on the previously transmitted phone number change schedule information. If the account is an account of the changed phone number, a phone number change notification message is transmitted to user terminals in a friend list of the account of the changed phone number. Friends linked to the user of the SNS account are correctly informed of information on the change of the phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Yool Lee
  • Patent number: 10135284
    Abstract: Provided are wireless charging equipment, a terminal, a wireless charging system comprising the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program recorded thereon. That is, the present invention performs a charging function based on a charging signal in the corresponding terminal by transmitting the charging signal to only the terminal corresponding to a communication provider or an affiliated company pre-registered in the wireless charging equipment to provide a charging function to only the pre-registered terminal with respect to a terminal to use a wireless charging infrastructure, easily and conveniently perform an authentication function for the terminal without a separate additional component, and improve operation efficiency of the entire wireless charging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yon Won Park, Hyun Wook Kim, Joon Sok Im, Seong Wook Kang, Seung Won Na, Kyeong Ho Seo, Hyung Min Jin
  • Patent number: 10135809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, system and apparatus for authentication using an application. Particularly, this invention can use an integrated ID by acquiring a reliable relationship between applications installed in a single terminal, or can perform the authentication of other applications by sharing authentication information through a representative application among applications. According to this invention, the account registration is performed by referring to the representative application, and thus the SSO authentication scheme may be implemented even in a mobile environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungwan Ko, Jaeyoung Ju, Bongsu Um
  • Patent number: 10134021
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of providing a gift icon using a communication network. The method includes: providing an item list of amounts of money to a user terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through the communication network; selecting at least one of the amounts of money, and inputting information of a receipt terminal to receive the at least one selected amount of money, wherein the receipt terminal is separated from the user terminal; transmitting a request message for a gift to the gift provision apparatus; and providing the gift icon to the receipt terminal through the communication network, when the gift provision apparatus receives the request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Lim Choi, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyo-Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 10126814
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for providing an advertisement using pupil tracking are disclosed. The apparatus for providing an advertisement using pupil tracking is capable of designating a selection position within a display screen using a pupil tracking point generated by tracking a user's pupil and a direction point corresponding to the user's direction, determining a target object corresponding to the selection position from among the objects within the display screen, and providing a promotion content corresponding to the target object according to the user's response. By providing only a promotion content for a user's desired object within the display screen, it is possible to prevent expose of unnecessary information resulting from indiscriminate pupil tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seungwon Na
  • Patent number: 10127643
    Abstract: An inpainting device and method using the segmentation of a reference region are disclosed. An inpainting device using the segmentation of a reference region includes a region determination unit configured to determine an inpainting target region and a reference region within video image content, an inpainting group setting unit configured to set inpainting groups using pixel values within the reference region; an inpainting unit configured to perform segmentation inpainting adapted to perform inpainting on a segmented target region using the segmented reference region on an inpainting group basis and non-segmentation inpainting adapted to perform inpainting on the target region using the reference region, and an information provision unit configured to visually provide the result of the segmentation inpainting, the result of the non-segmentation inpainting, and information about the difference between the results of the segmentation inpainting and the non-segmentation inpainting to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su-Bin Lee, Hyoung-Chul Shin, Ju-Hyeun Han, Byoung-Ki Jeon
  • Patent number: 10124258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for servicing a user participation-type game, and more particularly, to a system and method for servicing a user participation-type game using real-time flash-mob, including: users that participate in the game are divided into creators or players, and different services are provided according to whether the user is a creator or a player; the creator registers instructions that have a specific theme and related images in order to induce the participation of other users (players), and the player reads the instructions and views images that are designated by the creator, and links similar images in order to achieve a real-time flash-mob; and the creator is compensated with points as more pictures are linked to one set of instructions, and the player is compensated with points as more links (participations) are made to the instructions of various creators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bumjin Suh
  • Patent number: 10121087
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for recognizing the credit card number and expiration date of a credit card using a terminal device. More specifically, the method may include the steps of (a) obtaining an image of the card through a camera, (b) performing position detection and number recognition on card numbers within the image obtained at the step (a), and (c) performs position detection and number recognition on expiration date numbers within the image obtained at the step (a). In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a recognition rate can be improved compared to an image processing-based technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jimin Lee, Han Saem Kim, Chan Kyu Choi
  • Patent number: 10115090
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for providing a gift icon by a communication network. The method includes providing information about products to a user terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through the communication network; when a gift is selected by the user terminal, providing an address book corresponding to the user terminal, to the user terminal; when information of at least one receipt terminal is selected from the address book, providing a message including a URL (Unique Resource Locator) of a gift icon corresponding to a product corresponding to the selected gift, to the selected receipt terminal; and when the receipt terminal connects with the gift provision apparatus using the URL and requests download of the gift icon, providing the gift icon to the receipt terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Lim Choi, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyo-Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 10115091
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for providing a gift icon using a communication network. The system includes: a user terminal configured to receive information about products, select a product, and receive information about a selection of at least one receipt terminal to receive the selected product, information about whether the receipt terminal receives a gift icon corresponding to the selected product or not, and information about whether the gift icon has been used or not; and a gift provision apparatus configured to provide the information about products to the user terminal, provide the gift icon to the receipt terminal, and manage downloading, using, and usable period expiring of the gift icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Lim Choi, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyo-Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 10108937
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of registering a membership for an electronic payment, a system for same, and an apparatus and a terminal thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Jun Lee, Dong Phil Lim, Hye Youn Chung, Jong Ho Kim, Se Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10108944
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of providing a gift icon using a communication network. The method includes providing information about products to a mobile terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through a mobile communication network; selecting a gift and one of pieces of several information of a receipt terminal from an address book; transmitting the gift icon corresponding to the product to the receipt terminal, when the mobile terminal selects a button for requesting a gift receipt; when the receipt terminal selects an acceptance message for the gift receipt and pays money for the gift, transmitting a predetermined message including a URL (Unique Resource Locator) of the gift icon to the mobile terminal; and when the mobile terminal connects with the URL and then requests a download of the gift icon, downloading the gift icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Lim Choi, Jae-Hee Cho, Hyo-Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 10070253
    Abstract: A radio fingerprint device implements a radio fingerprint map construction and location tracking method. In this method, the radio fingerprint device receives, from a manager terminal device, radio environment information varying for a predetermined time at a specific referential position in a particular indoor area so as to create a radio fingerprint map. Then the radio fingerprint device extracts a periodic pattern from the received radio environment information, and stores, in the radio fingerprint map, the extracted periodic pattern as a radio fingerprint feature of the specific referential position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kichon Kang