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| 20080212529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING A MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE (MCBCS) BROADCASTING CHANNEL IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for changing a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) broadcasting channel in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes, if an MCBCS initialization request message is received from an MCBCS server, sending a burst reservation request message for MCBCS burst allocation to one or more Base Stations (BSs) in a corresponding Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) zone, and if a burst reservation response message is received from at least one of the one or more BSs, sending a Resource Reservation (RR) request message for each channel to the at least one of the one or more BSs for establishing data channels for each channel broadcast by the MCBCS server. Accordingly, a channel transition delay time resulting from a user's channel change can be reduced. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080268871 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED SERVICES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for providing LBS in a mobile communication system. An AAA server manages information on an anchor authenticator (AA) of an ASN GW. Upon receipt of a location information service request message from an LBS client, a location information server receives routing information for routing to an AA of an associated mobile station from the AAA server, and transmits a request for location information of the mobile station to the ASN GW. Upon receipt of the location information request from the location information server, a location information controller performs a location estimation procedure between the mobile station and an interconnected base station when the mobile station is in the idle mode, and upon receipt of location information from the base station, transmits the received location information to the location information server. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090054035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED SERVICES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for providing Location Based Services (LBS) in a mobile communication system is provided. Upon receipt of a location trigger for requesting location information of a Mobile Station (MS) from a location client, a Location Server (LS) transmits an authentication request message for requesting an identifier (ID) of an anchor authenticator for the MS to an Authorization, Authentication and Accounting server (AAA). Upon receipt of the authentication request message, the AAA transmits an authentication response message including an ID of the anchor authenticator to the LS. Upon receipt of the authentication response message, the LS transmits a Location Controller Identifier (LCID) request message for requesting an LCID of a Location Controller (LC) for the MS to the anchor authenticator. Upon receipt of the LCID request message, the anchor authenticator transmits an LCID response message including an LCID of the serving LC to the LS. Upon receipt of the LCID response message, the LS transmits a location report request message for requesting a report on location information of the MS to the serving LC. Upon receipt of the location report request message, the serving LC transmits a location report response message including location information of the MS to the LS. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090054082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED SERVICES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method for providing Location Based Services (LBS) in a mobile communication system, upon receipt of a location trigger at an LS for requesting location information of an MS from a location client, the LS transmits an authentication request message for requesting an ID of an Anchor Authenticator (AA) for the MS to an Authorization, Authentication and Accounting server (AAA), which transmits an authentication response message to the LS. The LS transmits an LCID request message for requesting an LCID of an LC for the MS to the AA, which AA transmits an initiate MS paging request message to an APC. The APC detects a serving LC of the MS and transmits an LCID to the AA, which transmits an LCID response message to the LS, which transmits an MS location report request message to the serving LC. The LC transmits an MS location report response message to the LS. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090061916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of receiving a Short Message Service (SMS) message by a mobile station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a paging message including a first field indicating whether there is a broadcast SMS message to be received from a base station, if the first field is set to a value indicating that the broadcast SMS message is to be received, recognizing a broadcast transport Connection IDentifier (CID) indicating a channel over which to transmit the broadcast SMS message, and a data burst allocation region by decoding a broadcast MAP Information Element (IE), and receiving the broadcast SMS message, transmitted using a resource of the data burst allocation region, through the channel over which to transmit the broadcast SMS message. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090069003 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA) SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for providing a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes receiving a message comprising information relating to a broadcast channel which carries a service guide, from a Base Station (BS), receiving service guides relating to one or more service providers over the broadcast channel using the information, when the received service guides are fragmented service guides having a certain size, generating a unified service guide by reassembling the fragmented service guides and when one service provider is selected, filtering only a service guide of the selected service provider in the unified service guide and displaying the filtered service guide in a display. Thus, the channel transition time can be reduced. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090249403 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS IN INTERNET BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An Internet broadcasting system for supporting broadcast services by using Internet Protocol (IP), and more particularly an apparatus and method for providing a user's preferred contents in an Internet broadcasting system are provided. The method of providing contents in an Internet broadcasting system includes searching for contents in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) according to a user preference, constituting a user channel, based on the searched contents and providing a terminal with the searched contents according to the user channel. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090253416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING USER DEFINED BUNDLE IN A MOBILE BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and mobile communication system for providing a user defined bundle in a terminal of a mobile broadcast system are provided. The method includes receiving a service guide from a BroadCAST (BCAST) Service Distribution/Adaptation (BSDA), creating a user defined bundle based on a content or a service desired by a user, including the user defined bundle in a user defined bundle subscription request message and transmitting the user defined bundle subscription request message to a BCAST Subscription Management (BSM), and receiving from the BSM a user defined bundle subscription response message in which a user defined bundle subscription and a purchase complete message is included. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090271837 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST CONTENTS IN INTERNET BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing content in a broadcast system is provided. Upon receipt of a request for synchronization from a mobile terminal, a set-top box creates a recommended content list based on user information received from the mobile terminal and delivers the recommended content list to the mobile terminal. The set-top box receives from the mobile terminal a content list, selected from the recommended content list and included in a Personal Information Management System (PIMS) updated using the recommended content list. The set-top box determines whether a user of the mobile terminal intends to view content from the received content list at a start time of the content. Upon receipt of view acceptance information from the mobile terminal, the set-top box sends a request for the content to a service provider at the start time, receives the requested content from the service provider, and provides the received content to the mobile terminal. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090276818 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING IPTV SERVICE AND INTERNET BROADCASTING SYSTEM THEREFOR - An apparatus and method for providing preferred contents to a user in an Internet broadcasting system that provides a broadcast service using an Internet data transport protocol. A user terminal sends a request for a broadcast service to a service provider. The user terminal receives an authentication key from the service provider, and delivers the authentication key to a third display terminal in which a user of the user terminal is not registered. The third display terminal delivers the authentication key and connection information of the third display terminal to the service provider. The service provider authenticates the third display terminal. The user terminal transmits information selected by the user to the service provider, which transmits broadcast service data related to the selected information to the third display terminal for being displayed. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100146353 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDICATING DATA BURST ALLOCATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method is provided for transmitting a Media Access Protocol (MAP) message in a wireless communication system. A base station transmits the MAP message including operation mode information indicating a data burst allocation scheme, to a mobile station. The mobile station identifies a data burst according to the operation mode information included in the MAP message received from the base station. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100195606 | SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE PROVISION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMS-BASED NETWORK - A service provision method in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is provided. A service request message is transmitted from a first user terminal to a second user terminal for requesting a service. The service request message includes global identifiers (IDs) allocated to the first user terminal and the second user terminal. A service response message is transmitted from the second user terminal to the first user terminal. A service session is established between the first user terminal and the second user terminal, when the service response message is received by the first user terminal. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100218213 | CONTROL USER INTERFACE DELIVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS IN DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for delivering a Control User Interface (CUI) using an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) is provided for a broadcast system. A transmission apparatus for a digital broadcast system includes a provider that provides one or more of services and content. The apparatus also includes an information generator that generates EPG information including CUI information. The apparatus further includes a transmitter that transmits the EPG information and the one or more of the services and content. The CUI information is provided per service and per content. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100232383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING CHANNEL BANDWIDTH IN WIRELESS INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for allocating channel bandwidths in a wireless IPTV system is provided. The method includes measuring, if an additional service offering request is received in a saturation channel state, remaining execution times until a service of each terminal that is currently receiving a service is terminated, and setting a minimum of the measured remaining execution times to a unit time; calculating a securable channel bandwidth per the unit time with respect to each terminal that is currently receiving a service; and allocating, if the summation of the securable channel bandwidths per the unit time is equal to or greater than a channel bandwidth required to provide the additional service, the requested channel bandwidth in order to provide the additional service. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100251296 | CHANNEL SWITCHING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IPTV SERVICE - A channel switching method and system for IPTV for reducing channel switching delay and improving bandwidth utilization efficiency is provided. The channel switching method includes pre-joining candidate channels while playing broadcast data on a main channel, the candidate channels being stored in a candidate channel table; releasing the pre-joined candidate channels, when a channel holding time of the main channel is greater than a predetermined channel holding time level; and re-joining the released candidate channels before a completion of playing the broadcast data on the main channel. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100265887 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING CONTENTS OF WIRELESS TERMINAL IN HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - Provided is a method for using home network contents of a wireless terminal located outside a home network. The method includes transmitting bandwidth information and wireless terminal information to a contents storage device, when a home gateway receives a remote access request message including the bandwidth information from the wireless terminal; setting, by the home contents storage device, the bandwidth information as a filtering parameter for the wireless terminal; filtering, by the contents storage device, contents available for the wireless terminal and generating a contents list corresponding to the wireless terminal by using the filtering parameter, upon receiving a request for the contents list; and transmitting the generated contents list to the wireless terminal. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110050449 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOTE CONTROL IN A SHORT-RANGE NETWORK, AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE SAME - An apparatus and method for remote control in a short-range network system, and a system supporting the same are provided, in which from a remote device that remotely controls the application execution device using a predetermined Control User Interface (CUI), information about capability of the remote device is collected, a CUI request requesting a CUI to be used for remotely controlling a currently executed application and the information about the capability of the remote device are sent to an application server, a CUI matching the capability of the remote device is received from the application server in response to the CUI request, and the received CUI is sent to the remote device. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055715 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE CONTROL SERVICE IN A NETWORK - A system and methods for providing a Control User Interface (CUI) for controlling a Networked Device (ND) with a Remote Controller (RC) are provided. A Service Provider (SP) receives capability information of the RC and CUI information from the ND, generates a reconfigured CUI based on a location of the RC from which to control the ND, and transmits the reconfigured CUI to the ND. The ND receives the reconfigured CUI from the SP and transmits the reconfigured CUI to the RC. The RC receives the reconfigured CUI from the ND and controls the ND with the reconfigured CUI. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055716 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING REMOTE USER INTERFACE IN A HOME NETWORK - A method and apparatus for controlling a Remote User Interface (RUI) by a Remote User Interface Client (RUIC) device in a home network, in which it is checked whether control information received from the third RUIC device capable of controlling an RUI realized in the RUIC device was generated by a Control User Interface (CUI) included in an allowed CUI list, and a CUI of the third RUIC device is updated if the received control information was not generated by a CUI included in the allowed CUI list. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110099283 | USER SERVICE PROFILE-BASED PLUG-IN UPDATE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION SERVICE - A method and system for updating a plug-in in a device in Internet Protocol TeleVision (IPTV) system are provided. The method includes determining a second plug-in group selected from among a first plug-in group to be updated according to status information of each plug-in indicated in the first plug-in group in the device; and updating each plug-indicated in the determined second plug-in group. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110116334 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a bitline sensing amp detecting and amplifying data of a pair of bitlines from a memory cell, a column selecting unit transmitting the data of the pair of bitlines to a pair of local datalines in response to a column selecting signal, a dataline precharging unit precharging the pair of local datalines to a precharging voltage level in response to a precharging signal, and a dataline sensing amp detecting and amplifying data transmitted to the pair of local datalines. The dataline sensing amp includes a charge sync unit discharging the pair of local datalines at the precharging voltage level in response to a first dataline sensing enabling signal and data of the pair of local datalines, and a data sensing unit transmitting data of the pair of local datalines to a pair of global datalines in response to a second dataline sensing enabling signal. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110131290 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTION OF CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN) BASED ON USER LOCATION - Methods and apparatus are provided for selecting a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Internet Protocol (IP)-based services. A service request message is received from a user. The service request message includes user location information. The CDN is selected in accordance with the user location information. The service request message is transmitted to the CDN for connection of a corresponding delivery function module of the CDN to the user. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING RUI-BASED SPECIALIZED CONTROL USER INTERFACE - Methods and apparatuses are provided for acquiring a specialized Control User Interface (CUI) in a remote control device of home network. A first message is transmitted to a client requesting a User Interface (UI) list. The UI list is received from the client. The UI list comprises specialized CUI information from a server. A second message is transmitted to the client requesting the specialized CUI in accordance with the specialized CUI information in the UI list. The specialized CUI is received from the server via the client. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110138290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REMOTE USER INTERFACE LIST - A method for providing a User Interface (UI) list in a network by letting a specific terminal, which has an application communicating with a remote server, receive a request for the UI list from an arbitrary terminal; and providing at least one of a UI list provided from the remote server and a UI list included in the specific terminal using the application. The specific terminal may combine the UI list provided from the remote server and the UI list included in the specific terminal to thereby provide the arbitrary terminal with a combined list and the arbitrary terminal may select the desired remote UI through the provided UI list. | 06-09-2011 |
