Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110128511 | FOLDING-TYPE PORTABLE DEVICE - Disclosed is a folding-type portable device. The folding-type portable device includes a first body having an abutment for cradling a portable terminal; a second body rotatably connected to the first body through a first hinge, so that the second body is folded or unfolded in relation to the first body, the second body being rotated to a predetermined angle in relation to the first body, thereby supporting the first body in a tilted state; and an optical module connected to the second body through a second hinge in such a manner that the optical module can be independently rotated, the optical module having a lens which is exposed or hidden depending on whether the optical module is rotated. The portable device may be used as an assistant portable device for extending functionality of a portable terminal. | 06-02-2011 |
20110234465 | PLANAR CRLH ANTENNA - The present invention relates to a planar composite right/left handed (CRLH) antenna, comprising: a substrate body which is made of dielectric materials, and which has a planer structure; a radiation line which is disposed on one side of the substrate body, and which is bent to form a slot for exposing a predetermined width of the substrate body through both ends thereof, and which resonates at a predetermined frequency band when fed; and a feeder line which is disposed on the outer side of the substrate body, which extends across the slot, and which feeds electric power to the radiation line. The planar CRLH antenna of the present invention is small in size, and expands a radiation area, thereby expanding an available frequency band, or using a dual frequency band. | 09-29-2011 |
20120066595 | MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - A multimedia apparatus and a method for providing content by generating at least one flag on a screen; designating categories with respect to the at least one flag; and if one of the at least one flags is moved to a particular content displayed on the screen, setting the particular content to the category corresponding to the one flag. Therefore, content is classified and managed according to categories by using a flag, and thus a user further intuitively manages and accesses content. | 03-15-2012 |
20120143719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING NETWORK BETWEEN USERS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus configure a network between users in a communication system. In a server, the method includes receiving user information from a terminal for purchasing contents, storing information on a purchaser for each of a plurality of contents, and configuring the network including users who purchase identical contents. Accordingly, the network can be automatically configured between user terminals on the basis of a contents purchase history of the user terminal in the communication system. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143731 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRADING DIGITAL CONTENTS IN DIGITAL CONTENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method transact digital contents. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for inserting a purchaser's signature into digital contents and providing the same in a digital contents management system are provided. The apparatus includes a purchaser terminal, a contents server, and a receiver terminal. The purchaser terminal detects a user's input, writes a signature to be inserted into contents, and transmits the written signature to a contents server when purchasing contents. The contents server inserts the signature received from the purchaser terminal into original digital contents. The receiver terminal receives and reproduces the original digital contents to which the signature has been added. | 06-07-2012 |
20120303708 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNITY SERVICE IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A community service of a mobile terminal, and more particularly, an apparatus and a method for managing a user's reaction conveniently by generating a community based on contents compared to a community generated based on a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The apparatus includes a contents information analyzer, an input unit, and a controller. The contents information analyzer analyzes information regarding contents to provide the same to a contents server when registering a user reaction to the contents that are being reproduced. The input unit receives a user's reaction to the contents. The controller processes to transmit the received user's reaction to a community server. | 11-29-2012 |
20130264383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTROL INFORMATION TO DEVICE REGARDING PRODUCT - Controlling a consumer electronic applicant through a mobile terminal to execute functionality appropriate for processing a consumer product is performed by obtaining a device specification of the consumer electronic device and product information on the product to be processed, and generating a command that controls the consumer electronic device to execute the appropriate functionality for processing the product. | 10-10-2013 |
20130267172 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERING DATA BETWEEN PLURALITY OF DEVICES - Provided are a method and system for transferring data between a plurality of devices. The method of transferring data from a first device to a second device includes: selecting at least one content; acquiring relevant information about the selected content; storing the acquired relevant information; and providing the second device with the stored relevant information when a communication channel is formed between the first device and the second device. | 10-10-2013 |
20130267174 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD USING THE SAME - A method of receiving data from an external data source is provided. The method includes receiving device information of the target device provided by the target device through near field communication (NFC), and transmitting a subset of the data selected based on the device information to the target device. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268998 | MANAGEMENT SERVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE, USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE, AND USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A universal access method performed by a mobile device includes receiving a signal from a security access point that requests authentication information from the mobile device through near field communication (NFC), selecting one of first authentication information and second authentication information corresponding to the security access point, and transferring the selected authentication information to the security access point through NFC. | 10-10-2013 |
20140052675 | SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT METHOD, SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE METHOD - A schedule management method is provided. The schedule management method includes acquiring user schedule information, extracting at least one piece of expected event information based on the user schedule information, collecting event information generated through near field communication, comparing the collected event information and the expected event information, and providing guidance information corresponding to the collected event information based on a result of the comparison. | 02-20-2014 |
20140057561 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR TERMINAL PERFORMING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION AND TERMINAL THEREOF - Provided are a method of transmitting data from a terminal through near field communication (NFC) according to information input to the terminal, and a terminal thereof. The method includes detecting a user interaction input to the terminal, determining data mapped to the detected user interaction; and transmitting the data mapped to the user interaction to the other device through the NFC. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058860 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ITEM BASED ON INTERACTION ENVIRONMENT - A method and an apparatus for using a device to determine an item, such as, for example, a card based on an interaction environment, such as, for example, a settlement environment, are provided. The method by which a device determines a card to be used in a settlement includes: acquiring a card use history of a card, which is stored in the device; acquiring information which relates to a settlement environment of the device; determining a card to be used in the settlement, based on the acquired information relating to the settlement environment and the acquired card use history; and providing settlement information which relates to the determined card to a point of sale (POS) terminal. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION BY USING STORE TERMINAL - Provided are a method and system for providing information by using a store terminal. A method performed by a mobile terminal to receive information about goods, the method may include storing a first list of goods from a store; receiving, from the store terminal, a second list of goods confirmed by a store terminal; and displaying goods included in the stored first list and goods included in the second list. The goods listed on the second list may be confirmed by the store terminal to be contained in a shopping cart of a user. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059169 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An information transmission method performed by a device is provided. The method includes receiving a selection, performed by an external input device, of target information displayed on the device, extracting the target information corresponding to the selection of the external input device, and transmitting information corresponding to the target information to the external input device. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SETTLEMENT INFORMATION - A method for providing settlement information in which a device provides settlement information to an application which is installed on the device includes executing a first application which is installed on the device, receiving settlement information from an external device via the executed first application, converting at least a part of the received settlement information, and providing the converted settlement information to a second application which is installed on the device in order to allow the second application to use the received settlement information. | 02-27-2014 |
20140066096 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SERVICE RELATED TO OBJECT - A system for and a method of providing service related to an object include receiving property information of the object when the device is located within a predetermined distance from the object, requesting available service from a server based on a current location of the device receiving the property information and the received property information, and receiving the requested service from the server. | 03-06-2014 |
20140070925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING EXTERNAL APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH DEVICE - A method of controlling an external apparatus connected with a device includes: providing user input information used to determine a user's intention; identifying an external apparatus controllable by a device; providing apparatus information of the identified external apparatus; receiving control information about the external apparatus, which is generated based on the based on the user's intention and the apparatus information; and transmitting a control command to the external apparatus which is generated based on the received control information. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073244 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXECUTING APPLICATION - A method for executing an application based on a connection between devices by automatically connecting devices, and a device, are disclosed. The method includes: detecting an occurrence of first short distance communication between at least one external device and the device; receiving connection information which relates to a second short distance communication mode and application information which relates to the at least one external device from the at least one external device via the first short distance communication; establishing a connection based on the second short distance communication mode between the at least one external device and the device based on the received connection information which relates to the second short distance communication mode; and controlling the at least one external device via the second short distance communication mode by using an application which is executable based on the received application information. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075056 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING APPLICATION IN DEVICE - Provided are a method and a device for executing an application, in which a second external device is communication-connected while the device executes the application along with a first external device and the device executes the application along with the first device and the second external device based on characteristic information of the first external device and the second external device. Also, in the method of executing an application, one or more external devices are connected while a device executes the application and the device and the one or more external devices execute the application together. | 03-13-2014 |
20140080419 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND DEVICE - A method and system for transmitting information which is obtained from a peripheral object when an interactive service between devices is performed, and a device, are provided. The information transmission method includes: obtaining first information which is stored in a peripheral object of an electronic device via short distance communication with the peripheral object when an interactive service is performed between the electronic device and the at least one external device; generating second information that is to be transmitted to the at least one external device based on the obtained first information; and transmitting the second information to the at least one external device via the interactive service. | 03-20-2014 |
20140080469 | METHOD OF EXECUTING APPLICATION AND TERMINAL USING THE METHOD - A method of executing an application by a first terminal is provided. The first terminal executes an application with at least one external device connected to the first terminal, and the first terminal transmits, to a second terminal, information about the application and connection information regarding the at least one external device. The second terminal establishes a connection with respect to the at least one external device based on the connection information, and executes the application with the at least one external device connected to the second terminal based on the information about the application. | 03-20-2014 |
20140173069 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD FOR REGISTERING DEVICE INFORMATION OF PERIPHERAL DEVICE, AND DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method, a device, and a system enabling an external device to control a peripheral device by using device information stored in a network device. The device control method includes obtaining device information regarding the first peripheral device, wherein the obtaining is performed by the user device; transmitting the device information regarding the first peripheral device to the network device, wherein the transmitting is performed by the user device; storing the device information, wherein the storing is performed by the network device; and controlling the first peripheral device by using the device information, wherein the controlling is performed by a second peripheral device connected to the network device. | 06-19-2014 |