Patents by Inventor Ki Oh Kwon

Ki Oh Kwon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8725733
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method providing a search result by registering an extended keyword. A search result providing system may include a registration keyword determining unit to determine whether a registration keyword is required to be additionally registered based on at least of information associated with a registration of an input keyword, and a registration keyword registration unit to additionally register the registration keyword associated with the input keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: NHN Business Platform Corporation
    Inventors: Hye Jin Kang, Ki Oh Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120278181
    Abstract: An advertising system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an advertising selection unit that receives submission of an advertising bid including a reserved bid price and a desired ranking from each of the plurality of advertiser terminals and selects exposure candidate advertisements from the received bid submission advertisements; and a ranking determination unit that selects advertisements to be exposed, excluding the lowest ranking advertisement, from the exposure candidate advertisements, and determines an exposure ranking of the advertisements to be exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: DAUM COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
    Inventors: Seokyoung Kim, Ki Oh Kwon, Gwangjin Yoo, Jhindhal Jhang
  • Publication number: 20120084140
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for adjusting a number of advertisement inventories based on a competition factor. An advertisement inventory adjusting system includes a competition determining unit to determine a competition factor for a keyword, an advertisement inventory adjusting unit to dynamically adjust the number of advertisement inventories based on the determined competition factor, and a data storage medium to store advertisement inventories. A method that uses a processor to adjust a number of advertisement inventories includes determining a competition factor for a keyword advertisement with respect to a keyword, and dynamically adjusting, using the processor, the number of advertisement inventories based on the determined competition factor, in which the advertisement inventories refer to available areas to display the keyword advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORP.
    Inventors: Ki Oh KWON, Seo Jin HAN
  • Publication number: 20110282751
    Abstract: A method and system for providing an advertisement using a minimum incremental unit are provided. The advertisement providing method includes adjusting a minimum incremental unit based on an initial bid price, an input bid price, and a maximum bid price bid price during an auction. The minimum incremental unit includes a minimum value of increment to be included in a current input bid price in addition to a previously input bid price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yuwon Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woongsup Shin, Woosung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seojin Han
  • Publication number: 20110264537
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, a system, and a computer-readable recording medium for performing charging for a search advertisement based on a publication ratio thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yu Won Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woong Sup Shin, Woo Sung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seo Jin Han
  • Publication number: 20110264514
    Abstract: A charging method and system for determining an advertising cost according to a unit time are provided. The charging method includes checking a performance index numerically indicating performance of an advertisement; checking a priority index of a next-priority advertisement to the advertisement; and determining an actual charge per unit time of the advertisement based on the performance index, the priority index, and a predetermined weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yuwon Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woongsup Shin, Woosung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seojin Han, Ha Nyung Chung
  • Publication number: 20110258191
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method providing a search result by registering an extended keyword. A search result providing system may include a registration keyword determining unit to determine whether a registration keyword is required to be additionally registered based on at least of information associated with a registration of an input keyword, and a registration keyword registration unit to additionally register the registration keyword associated with the input keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORP.
    Inventors: Hye Jin Kang, Ki Oh Kwon
  • Publication number: 20110251901
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for holding an auction and imposing a charge in relation to a search advertisement are provided. The method includes receiving bid information related to the search advertisement from an advertiser calculating device, the bid information including a search keyword, a posted time of the search advertisement, and a bid price for the search advertisement, determining a posting position and/or a posting order of the search advertisement with respect to a predetermined time slot of the posted time of the search advertisement, based on the bid price corresponding to the time slot, and posting the search advertisement according to the determined posting position and/or the posting order for the predetermined time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORP
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yuwon Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woongsup Shin, Woosung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seojin Han, Ha-Nyung Chung
  • Publication number: 20110246288
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for managing quality of an advertising document. The method of managing document quality may include verifying a number of actual clicks corresponding to a number of clicks that may occur during a predetermined period with respect to at least one document that may exist on the Web, verifying a number of expected clicks corresponding to a number of clicks that may be expected to occur during the predetermined period with respect to the at least one document, and determining a quality management index by which quality of the at least one document may be numerically expressed based on the number of the expected clicks and the number of the actual clicks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yuwon Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woongsup Shin, Woosung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seojin Han, Ha-Nyung Chung
  • Publication number: 20110246302
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and a system for providing an advertisement using a bidding starting price. The method for providing an advertisement includes: determining a bidding starting price for each keyword based on a minimum cost per click for a keyword and the number of expected clicks for the keyword; determining an area in which an advertisement of an advertiser is to be exposed based on a bidding price per unit time input from the advertiser; and providing the advertisement of the advertiser through the area, wherein the bidding price per unit time has a value of the bidding starting price for each keyword or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yu Won Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woong Sup Shin, Woo Sung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seo Jin Han, Ha Nyung Chung
  • Publication number: 20110208596
    Abstract: A method and system for offering an advertisement by adjusting a bid price per unit time according to advertising traffic are provided. The advertisement offering method includes determining a bid price per unit time based on an average bid price input by an advertiser and advertising traffic, and determining a charge regarding the advertisement of the advertiser based on the bid price per unit time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORP.
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Yuwon Kim, Won Sook Noh, Woongsup Shin, Woosung Lee, Min Seon Jeon, Seojin Han
  • Publication number: 20110173079
    Abstract: Provided is a bid management method and system using bid attribute information. The bid management method may include receiving a bid request including bid attribute information of an advertisement listing, determining a display rank of the advertisement listing using the bid attribute information, and calculating a final bid amount of the advertisement listing based on the display rank of the advertisement listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: NHN BUSINESS PLATFORM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Oh Kwon, Jong Ho Park, Yoon Hyoung Noh, Young Ho Shin