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| 20090019364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC CONTENT GUIDE - A method and apparatus that generates an electronic content guide using received metadata associated with content provided from a plurality of servers and which has different formats. The received metadata is collected, the formats of the collected metadata are converted into a same format, and an electronic content guide is generated using the metadata having the same format. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090063506 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATION CONTENT LIST - A method and apparatus for generating a recommendation content list by the cooperation of user groups. Sets of content that are classified according to a predetermined criterion are distributed to user terminals within a user terminal group. Assessment information on the content included in the sets of content is collected from the corresponding user terminals, and the recommendation content list is then generated based on the collected assessment information. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING USER PROFILE USING CONTENT TAG, AND METHOD FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION USING THE CONSTRUCTED USER PROFILE - A method of and apparatus for constructing a user profile using a content tag, a method of recommending digital content by using a user profile including a tag included in the digital content and a preference value for the tag. According to the methods and apparatus, a user profile is generated by using a content tag, and thus the taste of the user according to digital content consumption can be expressed in more varied ways. Also, by suggesting a method of generating a tag from web content, construction of a user profile for digital content having no tag is enabled. Furthermore, a tag extracted from digital content used by a user is included in a profile and it can be used for a variety of purposes, such as expansion of a comparison scope, use of preference keywords, providing of content links, and expansion of search scope. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090089257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT SUMMARY INFORMATION - A method to provide content summary information by using a web content syndication format includes selecting keywords which satisfy a predetermined condition from among a plurality of keywords extracted from a plurality of pieces of content summary information, indicating at least one of the selected keywords through a user selection from among the selected keywords, and displaying a plurality of pieces of content summary information all of which are related to the indicated keyword. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090150120 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING USER PREFERENCE - A method and apparatus for predicting content preferences of an active user with reference to content preferences of other users that are similar to those of the active user, the method including: measuring similarity ratios of the active user and other users using an overlapping ratio of use of content items commonly used between the active user and the respective other users; generating a recommender list for the active user based on the measured similarity ratios; and predicting a preference rating of the first user with respect to an unused content item based on a preference rating of an other user included in the recommender list with respect to the unused content item. Accordingly, the similarity ratio between the users can be accurately measured so that reliability of a preference rating prediction system can be increased. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090154420 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING NEIGHBOR NODE HAVING SIMILAR CHARACTERISTIC TO THAT OF ACTIVE NODE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A method and apparatus for managing a neighbor node having a similar characteristic to that of an active node, the method including: generating a neighbor list containing information about at least one neighbor node; selecting at least one parent node from among the at least one neighbor node; determining fitness parameters using a characteristic value of the active node, characteristic values of the at least one neighbor node included in the neighbor list of the active node, and characteristic values of at least one neighbor node included in a neighbor list of each parent node; and updating the neighbor list of the active node according to values of the determined fitness parameters. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090187674 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PERFORMING COMMUNICATION BY USING PLURALITY OF NETWORK INTERFACES MOUNTED ON THE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - Provided is a method of performing communication by using a plurality of network interfaces mounted on a communication terminal apparatus. The method includes allocating different Internet protocol (IP) addresses corresponding to the plurality of network interfaces to a plurality of applications of the communication terminal apparatus, relaying data transmitted or received between the plurality of applications and the plurality of network interfaces based on the allocated IP addresses, and simultaneously performing communication with an external network by the plurality of network interfaces through the relaying of the data. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090193015 | METHOD AND APPARTUS FOR ADAPTIVELY UPDATING RECOMMEND USER GROUP - A method of adaptively updating a first recommended user group list of a first user connected to a network, in which a predetermined number of second users are selected from the first recommend user group list that is a list of users having a high similarity to the first user in consuming contents. A predetermined number of third users having a high similarity to the first user is selected from second recommend user group lists respectively of the selected second users possess. The first recommend user group list is updated to include the selected third users. As the preference of a user changes, the recommend user group may be reconfigured with updated recommend users by reflecting a corresponding preference. Also, quality contents can be provided by recommending a user of a corresponding terminal with the contents preferred by other users in the updated recommend user group list. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20100082568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING INTEGRATED METADATA - A method of generating integrated metadata. The method includes receiving metadata about second contents including content access information for accessing the second contents from one or more content providers, which provide the second contents generated by changing at least one of quality, viewing cost, viewing time, and content providing method of at least one piece of first content; and generating integrated metadata using the received metadata about the second contents. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100106827 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT - Provided is a content recommending method including receiving from second users meta data regarding content belonging to each of the second users having a content preference similar to a content preference of a first user, detecting based on the received meta data a plurality of pieces of recommended content similar to content that the first user is currently using, and outputting information regarding the respective pieces of detected recommended content. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100178949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA USING INFORMATION ON COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - Provided is data transmission method and apparatus. A method for transmitting data from a first device to a second device includes detecting information on a communication environment of the first device; receiving information on a communication environment of the second device from the second device; and adjusting the QoS of the data transmission in an application layer based on at least one of the information on the communication environment of the first device and the information on the communication environment of the second device. Accordingly, when a sender transmits data to a receiver, the QoS of data transmission can be adjusted by considering communication environments of the sender and the receiver, and thus optimized data transmission can be achieved. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100191680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING PREFERENCE RATING FOR CONTENT, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING SAMPLE CONTENT - Provided are a method and an apparatus for predicting a preference rating for content, and a method and an apparatus for selecting sample content in order to predict a preference rating for the content. In the method of predicting a preference rating for the content, a list of users having similar preferences to a target user is extracted from content usage information collected with respect to the same content, and the target user's preference rating for the content is predicted by applying preference rating information of the users with similar preferences to a machine learning algorithm. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110102324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE BASED ON PHYSICAL ICON - A method of providing a user interface based on a physical icon (PHYCON), the method including: obtaining information required for executing an application from a PHYCON constituting a recording medium on which the information is recorded, by using a communication medium; and controlling to execute the application by using the information obtained from the PHYCON. | 05-05-2011 |
