Patents by Inventor Young-ho Rhee

Young-ho Rhee 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: 20080275878
    Abstract: A method of managing user data in a communication terminal is provided. The method of managing user data in a communication terminal includes retrieving, when a request for displaying user data is input, in the communication terminal user data generated at a specific date; classifying the user data according to at least two conditions; and displaying a plurality of user data lists for integrally displaying the classified user data on a plurality of display windows on a screen. Therefore, a user of a communication terminal can check user data generated in units of a day, and can easily search for user data in a user data list classified according to various conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hun Kim, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080270537
    Abstract: A communication system and a reply method thereof that enable various types of replies to be attached to a user's article posted on a web page is provided, whereby a user can easily check the user's article having a reply posted on the web page. The method includes posting a user's article of a user page on a web page, connecting to the web page and attaching a reply to the posted user's article, and displaying the user's article having the reply on the user page when a request for displaying the user's article on the user page is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD
    Inventors: Jung Hun Kim, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080270941
    Abstract: A user content management method in a communication terminal is provided. A virtual wheel in which one or more content icons corresponding to one or more items of user content and generation times of the one or more items of user content in vicinity of the content icons are arranged in temporal order according to generation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hun KIM, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080270917
    Abstract: An image production system, image production apparatus, and image production method are disclosed, which sort user data received from a mobile communication terminal based on at least one type of the user data; display the sorted user data on a daily record page; produce the images from user data which are selected from the displayed user data and which serve as a source; and play back the produced images on a certain region of the daily record page. All the user data of the mobile communication terminal can be easily checked through the daily record page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hun KIM, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080263457
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method of displaying human contact data are provided. Human contact data corresponding to a human contact event is created when a human contact event is generated. A name tag is displayed in a standby screen corresponding to the created human contact data. Accordingly, a user may easily identify human contact data through log data displayed in a user-oriented method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hun KIM, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080256487
    Abstract: Provided is a method for managing user content in a communication terminal. The method includes if a user content item is generated, adding a content icon corresponding to the user content item to a content icon arrangement path on which content icons are arranged in an integrated manner in the order of time point of generation of the content icons; if a search for user content is performed, displaying the content icons arranged on the content icon arrangement path in a first display window located on a screen; and if a content icon is selected, displaying the user content item corresponding to the selected content icon in a second display window located on the same screen as the first display window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hun Kim, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080256098
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus, which analyze many aspects of log data generated in a mobile communication terminal, calculate changes in human relations based on opposite parties of communication, and provide information on human relations in a variety of ways. Specifically, first log data for a most recent first period and second log data for a second period are acquired, in which the second period is earlier than the first period. Amounts of the first and second log data for the first and second periods are calculated, respectively. The averages of the amounts of first and second log data are also calculated, respectively, and then compared with each other. The changes in human relations are determined based on opposite parties. Therefore, users can easily read the changes in human relations based on opposite parties of communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hun KIM, Young Ho Rhee, Jae Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080209355
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for implementing a user interface used for a group communication. The apparatus includes a constructing unit to construct a plurality of user interfaces (UIs) in a predetermined format and an output unit to display in a first image the constructed UIs and objects selected by the UIs. The UIs include a first U to select content, a second UI to select a function corresponding to the content, and a third UI to select persons who are to share the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju-Youn Lee, Young-ho Rhee, Ja-Yeon Lee
  • Publication number: 20080189331
    Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of managing contents, the apparatus including an inserting unit to insert a mood tag so as to display a user's mood with respect to predetermined content or an importance tag so as to display the importance of the content, a classifying unit to classify the content according to a value of the inserted mood tag or importance tag, and a storing unit to store the classified content and the value of the mood tag or the importance tag that corresponds to the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju-Youn LEE, Young-Ho Rhee, Ja-Yeon Lee, Deok-Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20080182558
    Abstract: A contents management method and system, the contents management method including: generating contents; and transmitting the generated contents to a Web server, wherein the Web server receives the contents, stores the contents, manages the contents, and maintains a list of the contents so that the contents are easily accessible by a terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-ho RHEE
  • Publication number: 20080100941
    Abstract: A content-management apparatus of a portable device. The apparatus includes a display unit to display content by time and function in a content area having a time axis and a function axis, and a content generation unit to combine at least two sets of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Young-ho RHEE, Jae-hwan Kim, Jung-hun Kim
  • Publication number: 20080077844
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for managing multimedia content in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a memory; a screen mapping unit; a speech balloon insertion unit; and a storyboard creation unit. The memory stores different varieties of multimedia content and a storyboard. The screen mapping unit adjusts an image or a moving picture to a frame size and inserts the adjusted image or moving picture in a frame of the storyboard. The speech balloon insertion unit inserts a speech balloon in the frame of the storyboard. Upon the selection of format of the storyboard to be created, the storyboard creation unit controls the screen mapping unit and the speech balloon insertion unit to insert the image, the moving picture, or the speech balloon in the frame of the storyboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hun Kim, Young-Ho Rhee, Jae-Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20080077883
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for displaying relation-based information in a mobile terminal. The method includes, upon a receipt of a request for displaying the relation-based information, searching storage data for the relation-based information on a search target, sorting, by function, the searched relation-based information and creating and displaying icons having each function an icon bar, displaying, as a background image, image information on the search target among the searched relation-based information, and upon the selection of an icon from the displayed icon bar, providing the sorted relation-based information depending on a function of the selected icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hun KIM, Young-Ho Rhee, Jae-Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20070288868
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable device and method of providing menu icons and, more particularly, to a portable device and method of providing menu icons, which display upper icons and the lower icons thereof in a hierarchical fashion. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a portable device includes a button signal determination unit, a focus location checking unit, a background screen management unit and a icon management unit. The button signal determination unit determines whether an input button signal is the signal of a function button or the signal of a direction button when the button signal is received from a user. The focus location checking unit checks a location of a focus located on a specific menu icon. The background screen management unit changes the view point of a background screen to a direction in which the focus is moved. The icon management unit changes the size of a menu icon based on the location of the focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ho Rhee, Joon-ho Ok, Sang-hyun Park, Soo-ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20070260704
    Abstract: A service provision method is provided for user search, and an apparatus, a server, and a system for the same. A service provision method includes transmitting a terminal search request message including a contents information element to a service provision server, receiving positional information of a terminal, which is playing first contents related to the contents information element, from the service provision server, and displaying the received positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kiran Pal Sagoo, Young-ho RHEE
  • Publication number: 20070237032
    Abstract: An event display apparatus includes a configuration unit to configure a screen to include a time region, which is divided by time intervals along a first axis into a plurality of sub-time regions, and an event region, which is divided by event into a plurality of sub-event regions, in parallel to the first axis; and an output unit to output time slots, which has been allocated according to one or more zones, in the respective sub-time regions along the first axis, and to output sub-event regions comprising event information of different types, which correspond to the set time slots, in parallel to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-ho Rhee, Jae-hwan Kim, Chul-hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20070180038
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a message service are provided. The apparatus includes an input unit through which a user inputs a message and a list of recipients who will receive the message; a transmitter multicasting the message input by the user and identification information of the user to the recipient in the list; a receiver receiving answer messages from the recipients in the list; and a packet generating unit generating a combined message by combining the received answer messages with the message input by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-jung Lee, Young-ho Rhee, Young-kyu Jin, Joo-kyung Woo
  • Publication number: 20070174787
    Abstract: A device and method for providing information about the relationships between a user of a device and sharers sharing data with the user is provided. The device includes a search unit, a storage unit, a User Interface (UI) generation unit, and a display unit. The search unit searches for information about the lower menu item icons of a specific menu item icon, and sharer icons representing sharers who share each of the lower menu item icons, when a user selects the specific menu item icon. The storage unit stores information about the menu item icon, the lower menu item icons, and the sharer icons for respective layer regions. The UI generation unit generates the menu item icons, the lower menu item icons, and the sharer icons. The display unit displays the generated menu item icons, lower menu item icon, and sharer icons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-ho Rhee
  • Publication number: 20070174432
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying a communication log using a graphical user interface (GUI) image are provided. The apparatus for displaying a communication log using a GUI image includes a storage unit that stores information relating to events which have been generated through a mobile terminal as data, a statistical analysis unit that uses a statistical analysis application to analyze the data so as to obtain statistical data, and an output unit that outputs a GUI image in which a ranking of communication amounts of the mobile terminal is displayed using the statistical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ho Rhee, Young-kyu Jin, Joo-kyung Woo
  • Publication number: 20070120846
    Abstract: A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and an apparatus and method for providing the three-dimensional motion graphic user interface are provided. The apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface includes a display unit displaying along a first view point a plurality of polyhedral objects having surfaces on which information is displayed; an input unit receiving input values for switching view points from a user; and a graphic user interface unit rearranging the polyhedral objects along a second view point on the basis of the input values and displaying the information on the surfaces of the rearranged polyhedral objects orthogonal to the second view point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Joon-ho Ok, Young-ho Rhee, Sang-hyun Park, Soo-ho Cho, Cheol-yong Jeon