Patents by Inventor Sang-Mok Sohn

Sang-Mok Sohn 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).

  • Publication number: 20170372379
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes an advertisement bidding device capable of inducing advertisers to actively participate in bidding by determining a trustee group that guarantees an advertising effect among recipients receiving an advertisement and providing information related to the trustee group to the advertisers as bidding information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SK Planet Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Mok SOHN
  • Publication number: 20170270567
    Abstract: Disclosed is an advertising platform device for determining a priority by using a preference of a user within a new receiver group selected to receive a new advertisement with respect to an existing advertisement having a high similarity with the new advertisement and providing the new advertisement according to the determined priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Sang Mok SOHN
  • Publication number: 20170011432
    Abstract: Disclosed are an advertisement transmission service providing device, user equipment, a log storing and landing service providing device, an advertising platform, an advertising system comprising the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program recorded therefor. The present invention can protect user equipment from modification of advertisement information or infection with malicious codes through hacking and provide advertisement information having reliability so as not to expose a landing address through the advertisement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Min Ho HAN, Sang Mok SOHN
  • Patent number: 9401007
    Abstract: An image providing system includes: a terminal to run at least one application, to request an image from a service device, to determine whether the application supports all screen densities, to extract and transmit a resolution value of an area for displaying the image when all screen densities are supported, and to extract and transmit screen density information supported in the application when not all screen densities are supported; a service device to resize the image to match at least one resolution, to check a resolution value of the terminal and provide the image resized to match the checked resolution value to the terminal when the image is requested from the terminal, and when only screen density information is transmitted from the terminal, to calculate a resolution value from the screen density information and provide the image resized to match the calculated resolution value to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Mok Sohn
  • Publication number: 20160063555
    Abstract: This specification discloses an advertisement platform device and an operating method thereof. That is, an advertisement effect can be greatly promoted by providing an advertisement, which is desired by a user, at time instants desired by the user for desired times by using advertisement subscription information registered from a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Sang Mok SOHN
  • Publication number: 20140055497
    Abstract: An image providing system includes: a terminal to run at least one application, to request an image from a service device, to determine whether the application supports all screen densities, to extract and transmit a resolution value of an area for displaying the image when all screen densities are supported, and to extract and transmit screen density information supported in the application when not all screen densities are supported; a service device to resize the image to match at least one resolution, to check a resolution value of the terminal and provide the image resized to match the checked resolution value to the terminal when the image is requested from the terminal, and when only screen density information is transmitted from the terminal, to calculate a resolution value from the screen density information and provide the image resized to match the calculated resolution value to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SK Planet Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Sang Mok Sohn
  • Patent number: 7894833
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting a multimedia message, which reconstructs a multimedia message to be appropriate for the receiving mobile station and transmits the reconstructed message, when the multimedia message is requested to be transmitted from a transmitting station of a higher version to the receiving station of a lower version and the multimedia message may not be transcoded into a form which can be processed by the receiving mobile station. The present invention enables to transmit various types of multimedia message without being limited by the specification of the receiving mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-won Na, Ja-Young Yoon, Hee-Won Park, Bum-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 7802161
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing a multimedia messaging service, which guarantees the uniqueness of a transmitted multimedia message. In the multimedia messaging method using a mobile communication network of the present invention, a multimedia message transmitted from an originating mobile station is stored. A receiving mobile station is informed of the arrival of the multimedia message. The stored multimedia message is transmitted to the receiving mobile station if a download request is received from the receiving mobile station. In this case, the stored multimedia message includes a unique message identifier distinguished from file information of other multimedia messages stored to be retransmissible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-Won Na, Ja-Young Yoon, Hee-Won Park
  • Patent number: 7792520
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a multimedia message in a mobile communication system, which allows a receiving terminal to access an MMS server suitable for its specification and receive a stored multimedia message, even when a single MMS server is not equipped with all types of media conversion functions corresponding to all specifications of the receiving terminals. According to the invention, the MMS server stores a multimedia message transmitted from a transmitting terminal in a common message storage unit, and ascertains the specification of a receiving terminal while informing the receiving terminal of the arrival of the message. The MMS server includes in a notice message the address of an MMS server that services media data reproducible by the receiving terminal and informs the receiving terminal of the arrival of the multimedia message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-Won Na, Ja-Young Yoon
  • Publication number: 20090325614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing a multimedia messaging service, which guarantees the uniqueness of a transmitted multimedia message. In the multimedia messaging method using a mobile communication network of the present invention, a multimedia message transmitted from an originating mobile station is stored. A receiving mobile station is informed of the arrival of the multimedia message. The stored multimedia message is transmitted to the receiving mobile station if a download request is received from the receiving mobile station. In this case, the stored multimedia message includes a unique message identifier distinguished from file information of other multimedia messages stored to be retransmissible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-Won Na, Ja-Young Yoon, Hee-Won Park
  • Publication number: 20070275688
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a multimedia message in a mobile communication system, which allows a receiving terminal to access an MMS server suitable for its specification and receive a stored multimedia message, even when a single MMS server is not equipped with all types of media conversion functions corresponding to all specifications of the receiving terminals. According to the invention, the MMS server stores a multimedia message transmitted from a transmitting terminal in a common message storage unit, and ascertains the specification of a receiving terminal while informing the receiving terminal of the arrival of the message. The MMS server includes in a notice message the address of an MMS server that services media data reproducible by the receiving terminal and informs the receiving terminal of the arrival of the multimedia message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Sang-Mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-Won Na, Ja-Young Yoon
  • Publication number: 20070171938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting a multimedia message, which reconstructs a multimedia message to be appropriate for the receiving mobile station and transmits the reconstructed message, when the multimedia message is requested to be transmitted from a transmitting station of a higher version to the receiving station of a lower version and the multimedia message may not be transcoded into a form which can be processed by the receiving mobile station. The present invention enables to transmit various types of multimedia message without being limited by the specification of the receiving mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Sang-Mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-won Na, Ja-Young Yoon, Hee-Won Park, Bum-Joon Kwon
  • Publication number: 20060282738
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing a multimedia messaging service, which guarantees the uniqueness of a transmitted multimedia message. In the multimedia messaging method using a mobile communication network of the present invention, a multimedia message transmitted from an originating mobile station is stored. A receiving mobile station is informed of the arrival of the multimedia message. The stored multimedia message is transmitted to the receiving mobile station if a download request is received from the receiving mobile station. In this case, the stored multimedia message includes a unique message identifier distinguished from file information of other multimedia messages stored to be retransmissible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Sang-mok Sohn, Hong-Seo Yun, Dong-Won Na, Ja-Young Yoon, Hee-Won Park
  • Publication number: 20050138123
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for offering an event image mail service using a multimedia messaging service and a computer-readable recording medium which records a program for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Hong-Seo Yun, Sang-Hee Lee, Sang-Mok Sohn, Woo-Jung Yang, Hyun-Jung Park