Abstract: An apparatus and a method for power saving in a portable terminal are provided. The method for power saving in the portable terminal includes determining a throughput when processed by a bus, determining a throughput required for a program and selectively controlling a bus clock connected with a modem according to the determined throughput.

Abstract: An operating mode transition method and control apparatus for power saving of a mobile station in a wireless communication environment are disclosed. The operating mode transition method includes receiving, in an idle mode, a control message having an indication of ranging from a corresponding base station, transitioning to a sleep mode, upon reception of the control message, and performing a ranging procedure in the sleep mode.

Abstract: A dual mode terminal for providing location-based services is provided. The dual mode terminal includes a first area including a first wireless communication unit for communication with a first communication network and a first processor for processing signals transmitted and received to and from the first communication network, and a second area including a second wireless communication unit for communication with a second communication network and a second processor for processing signals transmitted and received to and from the second communication network. The first wireless communication unit includes a GPS receiver for receiving satellite GPS signals. The first processor includes a GPS engine for processing network location information received from the first communication network and the second communication network, and the second processor transfers network location information received from the second communication network to the first processor.

Abstract: A method of generating a 1-beam tracking error signal (TES), an optical pickup device, and an optical disc drive device adopting the method. A light-receiving element receives a single reflection beam and detects an alternating current (AC) component and a direct current (DC) component from each of areas formed on two sides of a data track. A servo unit generates a TES by adding and subtracting the AC component and the DC component.

Abstract: Provided are a single beam optical pickup device and a disc drive including the optical pickup device. The optical pickup device includes a light controlling device that prevents or limits stray light generated from a medium from being incident on a light sensor. The light controlling device may further include an additional auxiliary light sensor so as to reuse effective light among diffracted light.

Abstract: A neighbor discovery method and apparatus for performing network-transparent neighbor discovery in a heterogeneous network environment is provided. A neighbor discovery method for a multi-mode mobile node includes determining a type of a network, with which a mobile node is in communication, in response to a detection of a request for sending a neighbor solicitation message, retrieving, if the network type identifies a self-processing network, information about the network from a database, determining whether a tentative address contained in the neighbor solicitation message is already in use by another node with reference to the information about the network, and generating, when the tentative address is already in use, a neighbor advertisement message.

Abstract: An optical pickup and an information storage medium system using the same. The optical pickup includes a light source that emits light having a plurality of different wavelengths. The optical pickup includes a diffraction device having a plurality of diffraction patterns corresponding to the plurality of different wavelengths to divide the light incident from the light source unit into main light and sub light. The optical pickup further includes a photo-detector having a first main light reception unit that receives the main light and a first sub light reception unit that receives the sub light so as to detect an information signal and/or an error signal by receiving reflected light. The first sub light reception unit of the photo-detector is shaped so as to reduce reception of noise sub light due to diffraction based on an undesired diffraction pattern of sub light generated the diffraction device.

Abstract: Improving a transmission latency of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is provided. The apparatus includes a communicator transmitting a message for measuring power of a transmission signal to a radio access station (RAS) and receiving a response message corresponding to the message from the RAS; a TCP manager instructed by a controller to check and store a round trip time (RTT) required for receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) corresponding to data, which is transmitted from the portable terminal to the RAS; and the controller instructing the TCP manager to measure the RTT for measuring a retransmission timeout (RTO).

Abstract: An optical pickup device, an optical drive using the same, and a method of forming a beam spot are provided. The optical pickup includes a light source system that includes a light source corresponding to at least one of a digital versatile disc (DVD) and a Blu-ray disc (BD). The light source forms a beam spot having an oval shape with a long axis and a short axis on an information recording track of the disc, and the light source is disposed such that the long axis is maintained at an angle ranging from 0° to 30° with respect to a radial direction passing through a rotation center of the disc.

Abstract: An optical pickup device, an optical disk drive and method of controlling light performed by the optical pickup device are provided. The optical pickup device includes: a light transmitting system including an object lens for facing a medium having a multi recording layer for storing information, a light source system for providing a plurality of beams used to record information on or reproduce information from the multi recording layer via the light transmitting system, a light-receiving system disposed on a path of a beam reflected from the medium, and a light controller including a light control device for controlling stray light generated in the medium such that the stray light does not reach the light-receiving device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for enhanced heterogeneous network handover using a media independent handover scheme is provided. A heterogeneous network handover method of the present invention includes generating, at a mobile node, self-location information, transmitting the self-location information to a management server which manages heterogeneous networks, searching, at the management server, surrounding networks using the self-location information, composing a set of candidate networks including at least one of the surrounding networks, transmitting information on the set of candidate networks to mobile node and deciding, at the mobile node, a target handover network among the candidate networks. Accordingly, latency during handover in a heterogeneous network can be reduced.

Abstract: An optical pickup, photodetector, and optical drive adopting the optical pickup are provided. The optical pickup may include a light emitting system having a plurality of light sources corresponding to a plurality of mediums a light receiving system including a photodetector for converting light reflected from a medium into an electrical signal. The photodetector may include first and second light receiving sensors corresponding to the plurality of mediums, each of the first and second light receiving sensors comprising a plurality of regions, each region comprising a plurality of sectors. The plurality of regions of the first and second light receiving sensors may include shared sectors that are shared by the first and second light receiving sensors and exclusive sectors that are exclusively used in the first light receiving sensor or the second light receiving sensor.

Abstract: Provided are a network scheduler and a network scheduling method capable of effectively managing network bandwidths by selectively supporting a work conserving mode to network entities by using an improved token bucket scheme. The network scheduler selectively supports a work conserving mode to network scheduling units (NSUs) serving as network entities by using a token bucket scheme, such that the network scheduler ensures an allocated network bandwidth or enables the NSUs to use a remaining bandwidth. The network scheduler manages the NSUs by classifying the NSUs into a green state, a red state, a yellow state, and a black state according to a token value, a selection/non-selection of the work conserving mode, and an existence/non-existence of the packet request to be processed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for managing a power-saving mode of a portable terminal are provided. The method includes when a application program is running, assigning a network traffic type of the application program with one of a class type selected from a plurality of predefined class types of a sleep mode, instructing a modem to operate in the sleep mode of the assigned class type, and operating the modem in the sleep mode of the assigned class type.

Abstract: An optical pickup device corresponding to an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers, and an optical drive using the device are provided. The optical pickup device includes a collimator lens disposed between an object lens and a light source. The collimator lens adjusts a focal length with respect to the optical recording medium, and the object lens focuses light passing through the collimator lens, on the optical recording medium. The object lens is optically optimized for an upper or second-upper recording layer of the optical recording medium.

Abstract: A dual mode terminal for providing location-based services is provided. The dual mode terminal includes a first area including a first wireless communication unit for communication with a first communication network and a first processor for processing signals transmitted and received to and from the first communication network, and a second area including a second wireless communication unit for communication with a second communication network and a second processor for processing signals transmitted and received to and from the second communication network. The first wireless communication unit includes a GPS receiver for receiving satellite GPS signals. The first processor includes a GPS engine for processing network location information received from the first communication network and the second communication network, and the second processor transfers network location information received from the second communication network to the first processor.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus and an optical recording/reproducing system including the same, the optical pickup apparatus includes at least two optical systems for different types of optical recording media, one of objective lenses of the optical systems being offset from a central line of the optical recording medium, wherein the optical system including the offset objective lens having a diffraction grating diffracting light emitted from a light source to form a main beam and sub-beams, wherein the diffraction grating includes first and second diffraction regions having different grating patterns arranged alternately thereon, and a center of each sub-beam is arranged at a boundary of the first and second diffraction regions of the diffraction grating, and a center of the diffraction grating and an optical axis of the light source are adjusted to be coincided with each other, preventing generation of an alternating current in a Push-Pull signal of the sub-beams.

Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for controlling a disk input/output (I/O). The method includes detecting the number of consumed tokens that are the processing units of the disk I/O. Also, the method includes assigning a time slice that is a duration for processing the disk I/O according to the number of the consumed tokens using a preset minimum disk I/O bandwidth and a preset maximum disk I/O bandwidth.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for power saving in a portable terminal are provided. The method for power saving in the portable terminal includes determining a throughput when processed by a bus, determining a throughput required for a program and selectively controlling a bus clock connected with a modem according to the determined throughput.

Abstract: There is provided a socket compatibility layer for a TOE in a high quality server system. The socket compatibility layer for a TOE provides a standard socket API to an application program and provides binary-level compatibility so that a networking function of a TOE can be used without modifying the conventional socket application program thereby supporting simultaneous use of a TOE and a general Ethernet-based NIC. In a kernel structure of the Linux operation system, the socket compatibility layer for a TOE is located below a BSD socket layer receiving a socket system call from an application program through a standard socket API, is located above an INET socket layer and a TOE driver to control connection between an upper layer and a lower layer, and transmits the socket system call received from the BSD socket layer to the TOE driver or the INET socket layer according to call contents of the socket system call.