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 |
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 |
20110153613 | INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD USING LOCATIONAL/SOCIETAL RELATION-BASED AUTOMATIC CATEGORY GENERATION - Disclosed herein is an information search method using automatic category generation, which automatically generates a category related to a keyword entered by a user, constructs an ontology for processing menu information based on the searched results, and provides a customized menu suitable for the use of the keyword. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically generating keyword-related categories, which automatically classifies menu information related to the results of search of information using a keyword entered by a user on the basis of locational/societal relations. | 06-23-2011 |
20110179029 | EXPERIENCE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - An experience information processing apparatus for a social networking service, includes an ontology unit for providing a social ontology including social connection information and location information of a user and a service ontology including web service information, service location information and tag information. Further, the experience information processing apparatus includes an experience information management unit for extracting experience information content having location information from a plurality of mobile devices, classifying the extracted experience information content using the ontology unit to establish an experience information database, and searching the established experience information database based on the location information in response to a request from the mobile device to provide a social media service by linking the social connections information, the location information, and the tag information. Furthermore, the experience information processing apparatus includes an experience information storage unit for storing the experience information database. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179030 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING SUFFIX TREE IN SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for indexing a suffix tree in a social network includes: scanning an input string and dividing the string into partitions each having a common prefix; performing no-merge suffix tree indexing on the divided partitions; storing information on the partitions on which no-merge suffix tree indexing is performed; storing suffix nodes of the no-merge suffix tree; and establishing a prefix tree. The performing no-merge suffix tree indexing includes: generating a set of suffixes having the common prefix in the input string; generating a suffix set from the set of suffixes and storing the suffix set; and building the suffix set as a sub-tree. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179062 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus for sharing social media content includes a content management unit for, when sharable content is input by a user, extracting profile information about the sharable content by analyzing the sharable content, and generating social media content by associating the extracted profile information about the sharable content with profile information about a user to store the generated social media content in a database. Further, the apparatus for sharing the social media content includes a content searching unit for extracting an initial sample by searching the database based on keywords requested to be searched for in response to a search request of a user, and searching for the sample by comparing profile information about each piece of content included in the initial sample with one of the keywords. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179125 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCUMULATING SOCIAL RELATION INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES - A system for accumulating social relation information for social network services, includes a user location profile management unit for collecting at preset periods location profile information of a user; a user profile management unit for collecting and storing user profiles preset by the user; and a social activity tracking unit for collecting profiles from social activities of the user. Further, the system for accumulating the social relation information for the social network services includes a social relation information generation unit for collecting pieces of information received from the user location profile management unit, the user profile management unit, the email tracking unit, the chatting tracking unit and the Internet phone call tracking unit, and extracting new social relation information based on correlations between the pieces of collected information to generate a social relation ontology. | 07-21-2011 |
20120129504 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEMANTIC CONTEXT - A method for providing a semantic context according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: extracting at least one of address information and surrounding address information of the address information on the basis of a user's location; reading a social relationship list which is a list of people having a social relationship with a user; extracting information associated with people on the read social relationship list in a region corresponding to at least one of the extracted address information and the extracted surrounding address information; and providing the extracted information to the user. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131027 | METHOD AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS OF DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION OF SEMANTIC ONTOLOGY FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE BASED ON LOCALITY AND SOCIALITY RELATIONS - Disclosed are a method and a management apparatus of dynamic reconfiguration of semantic ontology. More specifically, the management apparatus of dynamic reconfiguration of semantic ontology of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a retrieval engine retrieving metadata stored in a semantic repository; a user interface listing the retrieved metadata; a semantic browser changing the content of the listed metadata on the basis of user input depending on the listed metadata; and an ontology updating unit dynamically reflecting the changed metadata onto ontology associated with the retrieved metadata. | 05-24-2012 |
20120135755 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS SERVICES - Provided are an apparatus and a method of dynamic radar for providing an immediate service according to a user's location on the basis of a location where a user is positioned and a social relationship with other users. The present invention allows a user to retrieve desired information and receive a necessary service by providing an environment to dynamically execute a location-based service to the user through a dynamic radar and allows a provider providing a service and the user to form a direct community. According to the present invention, the user can retrieve various information such as surrounding events or a digital community through a radar when the user is positioned at a predetermined location and configure an immediate service execution environment by installing the necessary service directly in a terminal. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136900 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DYNAMIC DIGITAL COMMUNITY BASED ON LOCATION AND SOCIAL RELATION - A system for managing a dynamic digital community based on location and social relations includes a user location information collecting block configured to analyze user location information and provide a location searching function of searching for where the user terminal is. Further, the system includes a community lifecycle management block configured to provide a service for creating and deleting a digital community, a service for joining a digital community as a member and withdrawing from the digital community, and a community execution service to user terminals; and a digital community profile database configured to store community profiles about respective digital communities. Furthermore, the system includes a user profile database configured to store user profiles of respective members who join the respective digital communities and creators of the respective digital communities; and a member management block configured to manage information of the respective members who join the respective digital communities. | 05-31-2012 |
20130132481 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE USING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - A method, an apparatus, and a system for providing a social network service capable of automatically extracting and analyzing social activities of a user to automatically generate a social network applicable to the user are provided. The method for providing a social network service through the user's social activities by automatically recognizing a user's social activities to includes: a profile generating step of generating a user profile based on a user activity profile obtained by collecting and classifying the user's social activities and a user information profile; and a network generating step of generating a social network by analyzing a user interest level based on the user profile. Thus, a multi-aspect social network fitting a time and space can be configured based on collected and analyzed user activities to thus provide social network services. | 05-23-2013 |
20130198282 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MAGAZINE INFORMATION - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for providing social magazine information. The method is configured such that an apparatus operating in conjunction with at least one user terminal provides social magazine information to a corresponding user terminal. In the method, a social magazine is dynamically reconstructed according to a context of a user of each user terminal. Customized information corresponding to the user terminal is provided based on the reconstructed social magazine. A community is formed among user terminals which share the reconstructed social magazine, and social magazine information is shared through the formed community. | 08-01-2013 |
20140129636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VISUALIZING SOCIAL NETWORK ELEMENTS - A visualizing apparatus of social network elements collects social network relationship information, community information, and content information of a user, generates relationship data between the user, the contents, and the community using the collected information, and visualizes an association relationship between the user, the contents, and the community using the relationship data between the user, the contents, and the community. | 05-08-2014 |
20140304338 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING COLLABORATIVE STORYBOARD USING SOCIAL GROUP - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method that process knowledge, experience information, or the like possessed by group members via a dynamically created social group, in the form of collaborative storyboards, thus enabling the collaborative storyboards to be shared among a plurality of social groups, as well as the corresponding members. The presented apparatus includes a social group management unit for managing information about a social group and a user joining the social group as a member, and an information management unit for accepting information finally determined with respect to information of content desired to be shared, which is posted by the user on a storyboard of the social group, in collaboration with other users, as a post of the storyboard of the social group, and distributing the post to the social group. | 10-09-2014 |