| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090157753 | SYSTEM FOR REALISTICALLY REPRODUCING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AND METHOD THEREOF - A system for realistically reproducing multimedia content includes a realistic multimedia content producer for providing the multimedia content; a device metadata server for providing device metadata for realistically reproducing the multimedia content; and a realistic multimedia reproducing apparatus for downloading the device metadata for the multimedia content from the device metadata server, and applying device metadata selected by a user to thereby reproduce the multimedia content. Further, a method for realistically reproducing multimedia content includes downloading multimedia content to be reproduced realistically; checking if the multimedia content includes device metadata for realistic reproduction; downloading a plurality of device metadata for realistic reproduction of the multimedia content if the multimedia content does not include the device metadata; and reproducing realistically the multimedia content by controlling a reproducing device to which metadata selected by a user from the plurality of device metadata are applied. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100077429 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a multimedia service, which support event based home network service mobility through a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The system for providing a multimedia service, includes a RFID tag, and a home server for performing a login authentication operation using RFID tag information provided from the RFID tag, storing service usage information of a multimedia service provided for a login user, and providing a corresponding multimedia service based on the service usage information of the multimedia service when a multimedia service is requested again. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100094845 | CONTENTS SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is a contents search apparatus and a method thereof. The contents search apparatus includes a query word preprocessing module expanding an inputted query word; and a search module searching for contents of a tag corresponding to the expanded query word. The contents search method includes expanding an inputted query word; and searching for contents tagged using a tag corresponding to the expanded query word. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100124404 | MULTIMEDIA PLAYING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA USING THE SAME - Provided are a multimedia playing system and a method for playing multimedia using the system. The system includes a first multimedia player, a second multimedia player, and a user interface. The first multimedia player includes a first media controller controlling plays of a first video and a first audio in response to multimedia data received from an external device. The second multimedia player includes a second media controller operating independently of the first multimedia player and controlling plays of second video in response to the multimedia data. The user interface transmits synchronization information to the first and second media controller. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20110055324 | UBIQUITOUS SERVICE FRAMEWORK SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING SERVICE IN MULTIPLE DOMAIN AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a server for supporting one service in multiple domains, including: a service management unit that receives service and service execution engine from a service providing server and registers them in a service DB; a profiling server unit that requests device profile to user terminals according to a request from the service management unit and parses device profile received from the user terminals and stores it in a device DB; a service ensembler that generates a list of services usable in the user terminal based on the device profile stored in the device DB and provides the list of services to the user terminals and extracts a service execution engines suitable for the user terminals from the service DB according to user selection and transmits them to the user terminals. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110131147 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDATION BASED ON LOCATIONAL AND SOCIETAL RELATION - The present invention provides a method and a system for recommendation based on locational and societal relation capable of providing more personalized information by being linked with other persons that have locational and societal relationship based on the behavior, value, preference of the user through a psychographics-based recommendation system. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131623 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MOBILE CONTENTS USING SETTOP BOX ON IPTV NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF - A settop box based on an IPTV according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a home network interface communicating with one or more mobile terminals; a terminal profile manager acquiring and managing a terminal profile from a mobile terminal connected through the home network interface; a contents converter converting contents received from an external contents server through an external network to mobile contents suitable for the corresponding mobile terminal on the basis of the acquired terminal profile; a contents storage storing the contents converted by the contents converter; and a transmitting/receiving controller performing a processing operation to extract the mobile contents stored in the contents storage and transmit the extracted mobile contents to the mobile terminal through the home network interface in accordance with a request from a user. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110145876 | APPARATUS FOR PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF ENTITLEMENT, METHOD THEREOF, AND SETTOP BOX IN IPTV BROADCAST SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus for purchase and delivery of entitlement in an IPTV broadcast system according to an embodiment of the present invention that includes: an entitlement purchase environment provider providing a charged broadcast contents list to the purchaser so that the purchaser can select delivery target contents and providing an IPTV broadcasting service subscriber list to the purchaser so that the purchaser can select one or more entitlement delivery target subscribers to which the entitlement for the delivery target contents is delivered; an entitlement generator receiving information on the delivery target contents from the entitlement purchase environment provider, and then generating the entitlement for corresponding broadcast contents; and an entitlement transmitter delivering the entitlement for the delivery target contents to IPTV settop boxes of the entitlement delivery target subscribers on the basis of information on the entitlement delivery target subscribers. | 06-16-2011 |