Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treatment apparatus including a drum formed of a metal material and provided to accommodate laundry therein, an induction module spaced apart from a circumferential surface of the drum and provided to heat the circumferential surface of the drum via a magnetic field that is generated when current is applied to a coil, and a lifter formed of a metal material and provided in the drum to move the laundry inside the drum when the drum rotates. The lifter is provided so as to be recessed in a direction in which a distance between the induction module and the lifter, which face each other, increases.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for user intention profiling and an apparatus for the same. Behavior data may be created based on logs collected in real time with regard to the online behavior of a user who accesses an online site, the purchase intention of the user and the item of interest may be detected based on the behavior data, keyword ranking information related to the user may be extracted in consideration of the similarity between a keyword vector corresponding to the item of interest and item models created based on multiple items registered in the online site, and a user intention profile for the user may be created based on at least one of the item of interest, the keyword ranking information, and a purchase probability included in the purchase intention.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for providing marketing management data for optimization of distribution and logistics and an apparatus for the same. The method and apparatus detect, in real time, respective purchase intentions of multiple users who access an online site, generate demand forecast data, in which items and regions are taken into consideration, based on respective pieces of user information and the purchase intentions of the multiple users, and generate and provide marketing management data for optimizing distribution and logistics of multiple items provided by the online site, based on the demand forecast data. Further, information that assists item sellers in managing inventory or in managing the supply and demand of products may be provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for predicting a purchase probability based on a behavior sequence of a user and an apparatus for the same. The method and apparatus collect, in real time, logs for a user who accesses a shopping site, generate a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) sequence corresponding to the online behavior of the user by arranging the logs in temporal sequence, and calculate a product purchase probability of the user by comparing the URI sequence with a purchase probability model corresponding to the shopping site. Further, the current purchase intention of a customer may be more accurately detected, and thus information about a product currently of interest to the customer may be provided.

Abstract: A method of operating a data processing system includes compressing a first part of uncompressed data, and determining whether to compress a second part of the uncompressed data based on an expected data size of the compressed first part and an actual data size of the compressed first part. The method further includes transmitting one of first transmission data and second transmission data to an external memory device based on a result of the determining. The first transmission data includes the compressed first and second parts, and the second transmission data includes the first and second parts of the uncompressed data.

Abstract: A server is provided comprising a processor configured to: receive an indication of a location of a first device that is subscribed to a disaster notification service; in response to receiving a disaster alert, detect that the first device is located in an area associated with the disaster based on the indication of the location of the first device; identify a second device that has registered the first device as a friend; and transmit a first indication of the disaster to the first device and a second indication of the disaster to the second device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a transmission timing of push messages in a system that provides a location-based push service. An electronic device transfers its own network information to a push server when connecting to the push server. The push server classifies electronic devices based on network information. At startup, the push server divides the electronic devices classified based on the network information into a plurality of groups, each including a predetermined number of electronic devices, and transmits push messages per unit of the groups. The push server measures a response time period taken to receive acknowledge messages in response to the push messages in a group, and adjust a waiting time for correcting a transmission time of push messages based on the response time period. The push server transmits push messages to electronic devices of the next group based on the adjusted waiting time.

Abstract: A server is provided comprising a processor configured to: receive an indication of a location of a first device that is subscribed to a disaster notification service; in response to receiving a disaster alert, detect that the first device is located in an area associated with the disaster based on the indication of the location of the first device; identify a second device that has registered the first device as a friend; and transmit a first indication of the disaster to the first device and a second indication of the disaster to the second device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a memory storing collected location information of the electronic device, and a processor configured to convert the collected location information into code information which represents a specific area of the earth. The electronic device transmits the code information to a disaster information providing device for which location information management is required in association with the provision of disaster information. Further disclosed is a disaster information providing system including the providing device and a plurality of mobile electronic devices. Disaster-related information is provided to those devices determined to be located within a damage zone, as determined by location information obtained by the respective devices and provided to the disaster information providing device.

Abstract: A method for display, at a first electronic device, identification information about a second electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a call or a message from the second electronic device, requesting identification information about the second electronic device to a server, receiving the requested identification information from the server, and displaying the received identification information on a screen. The identification information comprises relation information between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for efficiently controlling transmission of a large amount of push messages based on a location in a system of providing a location-based push service is disclosed. A push server is configured to search for at least one target electronic device to which a push message is to be transmitted, from among a plurality of electronic devices maintaining sessions with the push server, with reference to a table that stores location information of the plurality of electronic devices. The push server is also configured to transmit the push message to the found at least one target electronic device. Accordingly, since operation of searching for at least one target electronic device satisfying a location condition from among a plurality of electronic devices maintaining sessions with a push server is distributively processed by at least one push server, push messages is quickly transmitted.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a transmission timing of push messages in a system that provides a location-based push service. An electronic device transfers its own network information to a push server when connecting to the push server. The push server classifies electronic devices based on network information. At startup, the push server divides the electronic devices classified based on the network information into a plurality of groups, each including a predetermined number of electronic devices, and transmits push messages per unit of the groups. The push server measures a response time period taken to receive acknowledge messages in response to the push messages in a group, and adjust a waiting time for correcting a transmission time of push messages based on the response time period. The push server transmits push messages to electronic devices of the next group based on the adjusted waiting time.

Abstract: A method of operating a data processing system includes compressing a first part of uncompressed data, and determining whether to compress a second part of the uncompressed data based on an expected data size of the compressed first part and an actual data size of the compressed first part. The method further includes transmitting one of first transmission data and second transmission data to an external memory device based on a result of the determining. The first transmission data includes the compressed first and second parts, and the second transmission data includes the first and second parts of the uncompressed data.

Abstract: Provided is an embedded flash memory test circuit, including an embedded flash memory call array a read-only memory (ROM) built-in self test (BIST) unit, a ROM BIST control unit and a comparison unit. The embedded flash memory cell array includes multiple flash memory cells, and simultaneously outputs m pieces of read data, where m is a natural number. The ROM BIST unit generates first compressed data by compressing the m pieces of read data. The ROM BIST controller controls the ROM BIST unit. The comparison unit compares the first compressed data and expected data.

Abstract: A data bus system, capable of distributing devices including first and second data buses capable of transmitting data among a plurality of devices; a register block that stores information on a first bus request signal and a first bus grant signal; a global arbiter that receives the first bus request signal from the register block to output a second bus request signal and receives a second bus grant signal from the register block to output the first bus grant signal. A bilateral bridge that acts as a data transmission path between the first data bus and the second data bus; and a local arbiter exists in each first and second data bus, and receives the second bus request signal from the global arbiter to output the second bus grant signal is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for statistically predicting an interaction probability between proteins, and more particularly to a system and a method for predicting an interaction probability between an unknown protein pair based on information obtained by analyzing differences between interacting and non-interacting sets of protein pairs from the view point of domain combination. The prediction method includes the steps of (a) obtaining appearance frequency information of a designated domain combination selected from each of interacting and non-interacting sets of protein pairs, and storing the obtained appearance frequency information, (b) determining a probability equation applied to predict the interaction between two proteins using the stored appearance frequency information of the domain combination, and (c) obtaining an interaction probability value between the two proteins from the determined probability equation.

Abstract: A data bus system, capable of distributing devices including first and second data buses capable of transmitting data among a plurality of devices; a register block that stores information on a first bus request signal and a first bus grant signal; a global arbiter that receives the first bus request signal from the register block to output a second bus request signal and receives a second bus grant signal from the register block to output the first bus grant signal. A bilateral bridge that acts as a data transmission path between the first data bus and the second data bus; and a local arbiter exists in each first and second data bus, and receives the second bus request signal from the global arbiter to output the second bus grant signal is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for and a method of measuring optical alignment conditions of optical fibers mounted to a V-groove array in an optical fiber block connected to the input or output terminals of an optical waveguide device.

Abstract: An optical waveguide including a core layer formed of a polymer, and a cladding layer placed in proximate to the core layer, the cladding layer being formed of a polymer having a refractive index smaller than the refractive index of the polymer for the core layer, wherein the polymers for the core and cladding layers are selected from the copolymers having the formula (1): where X is Y is and n is a mole fraction in the range of 0.05≦n<1.

Abstract: An optical power divider using a beam separator and a beam expander, and a fabrication method therefor. The optical power divider includes an input optical waveguide having an input port for receiving incident light, for guiding the light incident via the input port, a plurality of output optical waveguides having at least two output ports, for outputting the light incident via the input optical waveguide to the output ports, wherein the number of output optical waveguides is equal to that of the output ports, and a beam separator located at a branch area in which the light incident on the input optical waveguide diverges toward the output optical waveguides, the beam separator being made of a material having a refractive index lower than the core of the input and output optical waveguides, for separating the light to the output optical waveguides with a predetermined ratio. Therefore, the length of the optical power divider becomes short and insertion loss can be lowered.