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| 20100091710 | METHOD OF PROVIDING IP MOBILITY USING SCTP SIGNALING IN 3GPP BASED NEXT GENERATION MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Provided is a method of providing IP mobility using SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) signaling in a 3GPP (3 | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100156715 | METHOD AND DISPLAYING ACCOMPANYING VEHICLE POSITION INFORMATION AND APPARATUS THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method for displaying accompanying vehicle position information and an apparatus thereof. The method for displaying the position information according to the present invention receives position information, displays the received position information with a unique identifier of a preset partner terminal, when the position information includes the unique identifier, and displays the received position information with an own identifier, when the position information does not include the unique identifier. According to the present invention, it is possible to display the accompanying vehicle position information with the own position information, without using a separate group management server. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157942 | Method for FMIPv6 Handover in UMTS Network and Apparatus for the Method - The present invention is related to FMIPv6 handover method and apparatus for the method in UMTS network. The present invention comprises obtaining lower layer information about a target RNS from a current RNS; obtaining upper layer information about a target core network from a current core network; establishing a tunnel between a current core network and a target core network by using the lower layer information and allocating a target RNS; and after allocation of a target RNS, transmitting a message notifying a target core network of connection to the target RNS and receiving packet data from the target core network. The present invention supports efficient handover in UMTS network by using MIH service and reduces handover delay | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158010 | METHOD FOR FORWARDING PACKET IN MPLS L3VPN - The present invention relates to a method for forwarding a packet which is to provide a VPN service using an IPv4 address in an MPLS network. The method for forwarding the packet according to the present invention extracts routing information including a VRF identifier from a packet, when the packet is received at one or more CE routers in the MPLS network, searches for next hop information in a forwarding table by using the VRF identifier and a prefix, substitutes the searched next hop information by destination information of the received packet, and transmits the packet to an output port. According to the present invention, since the plurality of forwarding tables for providing the VPN are provided without extending a memory, the packet forwarding can be stably performed. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158018 | METHOD FOR FORWARDING PATH VIRTUALIZATION FOR ROUTER - Provided is a method for forwarding path virtualization for a router, which prevents the processing speed of the router from decreasing due to a plurality of operating systems installed in an upper layer of a hypervisor when the router is virtualized. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162360 | USER AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING PMIPv6 IN NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS - Provided are a user authentication apparatus and method for supporting PMIPv6 (Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6) in next generation networks. Authentication and mobility signaling protocol can be performed without having an additional signaling process when a mobile terminal moves by extending user profiles of the next generations to support the PMIPv6. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110134754 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAIRLY ALLOCATING RESOURCE TO NETWORK USERS - A method and an apparatus for fairly allocating resources to network users are provided. The method for fair resource allocation to network users allows the resource allocation apparatus to collect flow information between a user terminal and a service server and aggregates the flow information based on at least one of a user terminal address, a service server address, a user terminal, a service server address, and a service. The allocation resource of the user is controlled to the predetermined recommended bandwidth by using the ratio of the aggregated flow information. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110149734 | SMART BORDER ROUTER AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FLOW USING THE SAME - A smart border router includes a traffic analyzer for receiving a traffic control policy including a network's routing policy and QoS policy from a router provided on a border of a network, and analyzing the same; a flow translator for, when receiving a plurality of flows from a specific network, translating a received flow to satisfy the traffic control policy of a destination network to which the flow will be transmitted; and a flow information controller for transmitting the translated flow to the destination network through a flow control protocol. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20100036626 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF HEALTH OF BATTERY BASED ON BATTERY VOLTAGE VARIATION PATTERN - An apparatus estimates SOH of a battery based on a battery voltage variation pattern. A data storing unit obtains and stores battery voltage, current and temperature data from sensors, at each SOH estimation. A first SOC estimating unit estimates first SOC by current integration using the battery current data. A second SOC estimating unit estimates open-circuit voltage from the voltage variation pattern, and calculates and stores second SOC corresponding to the open-circuit voltage and temperature using correlations between the open-circuit voltage/temperature and SOC. A weighted mean convergence calculating unit calculates and stores convergence value for weighted mean value of ratio of the second SOC variation to the first SOC variation. A SOH estimating unit estimates capacity corresponding to the weighted mean convergence value using correlation between the weighted mean convergence value and the capacity, estimates relative ratio of the estimated capacity to an initial capacity, and stores it as SOH. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100174499 | APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE OF BATTERY, APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF CHARGE OF BATTERY, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An apparatus for estimating an OCV of a battery includes a voltage sensing unit for measuring a battery output voltage; a temperature sensing unit for measuring a battery temperature; a data storing unit for periodically receiving the battery output voltage and temperature data from the sensing units and storing the data in a memory; an OCV variation estimating unit for calculating an OCV variation from a varying pattern of battery output voltages measured in the past and at the present, stored in the memory, by applying a mathematical model defining a correlation between the varying pattern and the OCV variation, and estimating an OCV at a current stage by reflecting a correction factor corresponding to the battery temperature on the calculated OCV variation; and an OCV estimating unit for estimating an OCV at the current stage by reflecting the estimated OCV variation on the OCV estimated at a last stage. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110032653 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A RELAY IN ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLE - Disclosed is a relay control apparatus and method for electric drive vehicles. The apparatus controls turn-off of a relay operative to connect an electric drive unit with a battery pack for supplying electrical power to the electric drive unit, and comprises a current sensor for measuring and outputting a residual current flowing between the battery pack and the electric drive unit; and a controller for, in a situation requiring turn-off of the relay, receiving the measured residual current value, comparing the measured residual current value with a reference value for the residual current, and controlling to maintain the ON-state of the relay or to turn off the relay on the basis of the comparison results. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110037476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ABNORMALITY OF CURRENT SENSOR IN BATTERY PACK - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for detecting abnormality of a current sensor operative to measure a charge or discharge current of a battery pack. The method comprises measuring current and voltage of the battery pack; and detecting abnormality of the current sensor by comparing variations in current and voltage over a predetermined time with a current reference value and a voltage reference value, respectively. | 02-17-2011 |
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| 20090305126 | SECONDARY BATTERY HAVING ELECTRODE WITH SELF CUTTING PART TO BE DESTRUCTED ON APPLICATION OF OVER-CURRENT - Disclosed herein is a plate-shaped secondary battery used as a unit cell for middle- or large-sized battery pack, the secondary battery having an electrode assembly, which can be charged and discharged, mounted in a sheet-shaped battery case including a metal layer and a resin layer in a sealed state, the electrode assembly having electrode terminals protruding outside a sealing part of the battery case, wherein at least one of the electrode terminals is provided at a position spaced a predetermined distance from the sealing part with a self cutting part having a vertical sectional area less than that of the remaining part of the at least one electrode terminal such that the self cutting part can break first when overcurrent flows in the secondary battery. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100141214 | POWER SWITCHING MODULE FOR BATTERY MODULE ASSEMBLY - Disclosed herein is a power switching module for a battery module assembly constructed in a structure in which a plurality of rectangular battery modules, each having a plurality of battery cells or unit modules connected in series to each other, are stacked in the width direction (the longitudinal direction) and the height direction (the transverse direction) by at least twos such that the rectangular battery modules generally constitute a hexahedral structure (hexahedral stack), outer edges of the hexahedral stack are fixed by a frame member, and input and output terminals of the rectangular battery modules are oriented such that the input and output terminals of the rectangular battery modules are directed toward one surface (a) of the hexahedral stack, wherein the power switching module comprises an insulative substrate mounted to the surface (a) of the hexahedral stack in a coupling fashion, elements mounted on the insulative substrate for controlling voltage and current during the charge and discharge of the rectangular battery modules, and connection members mounted on the insulative substrate for interconnecting the control elements. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100253287 | APPARATUS FOR BALANCING OF BATTERY PACK HAVING FUNCTION OF PREVENTION OF OVER-DISCHARGE - An apparatus balances a charging voltage of each battery cell of a battery pack. The apparatus includes a discharge resistor installed on a conductive line connected to both ends of a battery cell in parallel; a balance signal relay unit for relaying a charging voltage of the battery cell according to a balance control signal; and a discharge switching unit for receiving the relayed charging voltage of the battery cell as a driving voltage and connecting the battery cell to the discharge resistor to discharge the battery cell if the driving voltage is over an effective voltage level. This apparatus prevents overcharging of a battery cell, caused by a failure of a control processor, while balancing a charging voltage of battery cells. Also, the control processor may be protected against an electric impact by electrical insulation from a discharge circuit. Accordingly, the safety of the battery pack is improved. | 10-07-2010 |
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| 20080212568 | WIRE AND WIRELESS INTERNET PHONE TERMINAL USING WIDEBAND VOICE CODEC - A wire/wireless Internet phone terminal using a wideband voice codec is provided. The wire/wireless Internet phone terminal using a wideband voice codec includes: a multimedia application processor for including a process core to perform a protocol according to a wire and wireless interface communication scheme and supporting wideband voice service; an Ethernet processing unit for connecting the multimedia application processor to the Ethernet to perform an Ethernet physical-layer function of and transforming a power input from the Ethernet to supply a driving power to the multimedia application processor; a PSTN (public switched telephone network) processing unit for connected to the multimedia application processor and a PSTN to emulate a telephone function; and a wireless processing unit for connecting the multimedia application processor to an AP (access point) in a wireless manner. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a wideband service without a limitation to wire/wireless implementation. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080298260 | OPERATIONAL STATUS TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ETHERNET-BASED AUTOMATIC PROTECTION SWITCHING PROCESS - Provided is an operational status testing apparatus and method for an Ethernet-based APS process. A test command signal which contains a command to perform an operational test for the APS process of a first node and a second test response signal that indicates that the operation of the APS process of a second node is performed normally, from among far end request signals that are received from the second node connected to own first node via an Ethernet network, are filtered. When the far end request signals are test command signals, a first test response signal that indicates that the operation of the APS process of the first node is performed normally is generated, and a top priority local request signal is selected based on priorities of the first test response signal and at least one local request signal that indicates the status of the APS process of the first node, and an output signal to be transmitted to the second node is determined based on priorities of the top priority local request signal and the filtered the far end request signal. The function for testing the operational status for the APS process defined in ITU-T recommendation G.8031 is embodied, and when an operational status test request is received from another node, the APS process can be tested effectively without having to perform a complicated diagnosis operation for the APS process. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090254676 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA FRAME END-TO-END USING VIRTUAL SYNCHRONIZATION ON LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND NETWORK DEVICES APPLYING THE SAME - A method for transferring data frame end-to-end in a local area network is provided. In the method, a virtual synch frame shaper is loaded on a frame transmission layer structure provided in end stations in transmitting and receiving sides, which transmits data frame passing through a plurality of Ethernet switches in the LAN. Then, slot counters, which are counted through the virtual synch frame shaper, are exchanged between the end stations, and the slot counters are synchronized. Afterward, the transmit time slot is allocated based on the synchronized slot counters for transmitting data frames between the end stations. Finally, data frames are transmitted based on the synchronized slot counters and the allocated transmit time slot. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100248698 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE INLCUDING MOBILE CLOUD PLATFORM - Provided is a mobile terminal device including a mobile cloud platform. The mobile cloud platform includes a mobile cloud platform layer, a mobile cloud application layer, and a mobile cloud service layer. The mobile cloud platform layer virtualizes resources provided from the mobile terminal device. The mobile cloud application layer provides a service requested by a user to the user through a virtual mobile terminal user interface. The mobile cloud service layer provides the requested service constantly regardless of a change of mobile terminal environment. The mobile terminal device forms a mobile cloud together with other mobile terminal devices. Each of the mobile terminal devices includes a mobile cloud platform. | 09-30-2010 |
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| 20100272949 | VACUUM INSULATOR - A vacuum insulator includes first lateral beams, first longitudinal beams, second lateral beams and second longitudinal beams. The first longitudinal beams are arranged in parallel to one another at a predetermined interval. Each of the first lateral beams has a sectional area alternatively changed to be wide and narrow by the period that is ½ of the interval. The first longitudinal beams are intersected with the first lateral beams at a predetermined angle, and are arranged in parallel to one another at a predetermined interval. Each of the first longitudinal beams has a sectional area alternatively changed to be wide and narrow by the period that is ½ of the interval. Portions with the wide sectional area of each of the first longitudinal beams are attached on portions with the wide sectional area of each of the first lateral beam. The second lateral beams are intersected with the first longitudinal beams, and are arranged in parallel to one another at a predetermined interval at a predetermined angle and are alternately positioned. Each of the second lateral beams has a sectional area alternatively changed to be wide and narrow by the period that is ½ of the interval. Portions with the wide sectional area of each of the second lateral beams are attached on portions with the wide sectional area of each of the first longitudinal beams. The second longitudinal beams are intersected with the second lateral beams at a predetermined angle and are arranged in parallel to one another at a predetermined interval to be alternately positioned with the first longitudinal beams. Each of the second longitudinal beams has a sectional area alternatively changed to be wide and narrow by the period that is ½ of the interval. Portions with the wide sectional area of each of the second longitudinal beams are attached on portions with the wide sectional area of each of the second lateral beams. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100279055 | VACUUM INSULATOR - The vacuum insulator includes an internal structure; a filler for filling empty spaces of the internal structure; and an envelope having an upper envelope composed of a metal layer and a polymer layer formed on the metal layer to surround an upper surface of the internal structure, and a lower envelope composed of a metal layer and a polymer layer formed on the metal layer to surround a lower surface of the internal structure, the metal layer of the upper envelope and the metal layer of the lower envelope being opposite to each other, wherein in a certain area along outlines of the upper envelope and the lower envelope, the metal layer of the upper envelope and the metal layer of the lower envelope between which a film composed of a Low density polyethylene LDPE and a Linear-Lowdensity polyethylene LLDPE is inserted, are adhered by heat, and in an area excluding the certain area, the metal layer of the upper envelope and the metal layer of the lower envelope are adhered by polyurethane. | 11-04-2010 |
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| 20100135171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF VoIP QoE AND COMPENSATION METHOD - Provided are a system and a method for measurement voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) quality of experience (QoE), and a compensation method. a method for measuring QoE for a VoIP telephone service in real time, and claiming aftertreatment on the basis of the measurement quality. The present invention measures subjective or objective quality for an actually generated call, and allows the subjective or objective quality to be linked with aftertreatment such as compensation. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110143719 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL BASED ON RECOGNITION OF VEHICLE DRIVING CONDITION - A communication server in cooperation with a telematics center receives a result message for condition guidance service selection result information from the telematics center to control a driver terminal according to traveling condition recognition of a vehicle, stores a driver terminal number, call control request information during traveling, and condition notice information during traveling included in the result message, sets a condition guidance service, and controls call connection with a call connection attempting terminal for attempting a call connection to the driver terminal according to a type of the result message. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145110 | INDEX INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD ACCORDING TO CHARGING PERIOD IN SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT SYSTEM - An index management device of a service level agreement system includes: an external link processor for receiving a customized service request for requesting a different service per subscriber received by a subscriber subscription management system; a quality manager for extracting needed information from output information from the external link processor; an index management interface for checking a characteristic of the output information from the quality manager and an information management method; a table storage unit for storing index information of the service level agreement system; and an index manager for managing the index information stored in the table storage unit according to the customized service request and a request from the index management interface. | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20080280211 | Electrolyte for Lithium Secondary Battery Comprising Chelating Agent and Lithium Secondary Battery Using the Same - Disclosed herein is an electrolyte for lithium secondary batteries comprising: a chelating agent, which forms complexes with transition metal ions in the battery, and at the same time does not react and coordinate with lithium ions; a non-aqueous solvent; and an electrolyte salt, as well as a lithium secondary battery comprising the electrolyte. The chelating agent, which is contained in the electrolyte for lithium secondary batteries, can suppress a side reaction in which transition metal ions are reduced and deposited as transition metals on the anode. Also, the chelating agent can suppress internal short-circuits in the battery and the resulting voltage drop of the battery and a reduction in the safety and performance of the battery, which can occur when transition metals are deposited on the anode. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20100159321 | ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING CHELATING AGENT AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an electrolyte for lithium secondary batteries comprising: a chelating agent, which forms complexes with transition metal ions in the battery, and at the same time does not react and coordinate with lithium ions; a non-aqueous solvent; and an electrolyte salt, as well as a lithium secondary battery comprising the electrolyte. The chelating agent, which is contained in the electrolyte for lithium secondary batteries, can suppress a side reaction in which transition metal ions are reduced and deposited as transition metals on the anode. Also, the chelating agent can suppress internal short-circuits in the battery and the resulting voltage drop of the battery and a reduction in the safety and performance of the battery, which can occur when transition metals are deposited on the anode. | 06-24-2010 |
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| 20080207230 | Multi-Mode Communication System and Method Thereof - The present invention relates to a multi-mode communication system and a method thereof. The multi-mode communication system uses a first mode among a plurality communication modes for accessing a first mobility control entity (MCE) among a plurality of MCEs, and communicates data with the first MCE. The multi-mode communication system receives a paging request that has been transmitted from a multi-mode control entity (MMCE) for accessing a second MCE from the first MCE and analyzes the paging request, and puts the first mode into a sleep mode and a second mode for accessing the second MCE into an awake mode based on the analysis. Subsequently, multi-mode UE accesses the second MCE by using the second mode in the awake mode. According to the present invention, an MMCE for multi-mode control is provided to integrate and manage an idle state for each access mode of multi-mode user equipment, thereby minimizing power consumption due to access of the multi-mode UE to a radio access system. In addition, a change of the access of the multi-mode UE to the radio access system due to a paging request can be efficiently performed. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090080354 | Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Providing System and Method Thereof - The present invention relates to a multi-media broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) providing system and a method thereof. The MBMS providing system provides an MBMS to a terminal having an MBMS function. The MBMS providing system includes a service center and a radio access network. The service center provides MBMS data and metadata having service announcement information abut the MBMS to the terminal. The radio access network periodically transmits establishment information for receiving the metadata to the terminal, and provides the metadata and the MBMS data received from the service center to the terminal through nodes for transmitting data. The establishment information includes first establishment information having a service identifier and IP/UDP parameters for receiving the metadata, and second establishment information for establishing a radio channel. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090286527 | Apparatus and a method for service continuity between umts network and wlan network - Service continuity is provided between a 3GPP network and a non-3GPP network. When a mobile station having accepted service in the 3GPP network moves to the non-3GPP network or returns from the non-3GPP network to the 3GPP network, an interworking gateway is interworked with a GGSN through a universal tunnel using a packet data network, and accordingly a mobile subscriber may accept seamless service. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100074220 | HANDOVER METHOD BETWEEN SYSTEMS OF MULTI-MODE TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a handover method between systems of a multi-mode terminal. A multi-cast based protocol is added to an Internet protocol (IP) based wireless network to cooperate with the wireless access protocol of the terminal. In addition, minimized processes are added to use the wireless access protocol having wide area coverage. Accordingly, the handover between the systems may be performed while packet loss or service delay caused by a movement of a user may be minimized, and terminal complexity may not be increased. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100150082 | TERMINAL DEVICE OF CARRIER AGGREGATION BASED MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BUFFER STATUS REPORTING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a buffer status reporting method of a terminal device in a mobile communication system. The buffer status reporting method includes obtaining a radio resource allocation for a plurality of component carriers from a base station, configuring a plurality of medium access control-protocol data units (MAC-PDUs) including buffer status information corresponding to the plurality of component carriers, the plurality of MAC-PDUs including generated sequence numbers (SNs), and transmitting the plurality of MAC-PDUs to the base station through the plurality of component carriers. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110105141 | PAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS CONSIDERING CARRIER AGGREGATION ENVIRONMENT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a paging method and apparatus considering a carrier aggregation (CA) environment in a mobile communication system. A paging method of a user equipment may include: selecting a component carrier (CC) set of the user equipment by selecting a CC for each component carrier element (CCE); receiving, from an evolved Node-B (eNB), a paging message containing a CC set; setting up a connection with the eNB through the CC set of the user equipment when the received CC set is the same as the CC set of the user equipment, or when all the CCs are included in the received CC set; and changing the CC set of the user equipment to the received CC set and setting up the connection with the eNB through the changed CC set when the received CC set is different from the CC set of the user equipment. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20090249078 | OPEN ID AUTHENTICATION METHOD USING IDENTITY SELECTOR - Provided is an Open ID authentication method using an identity selector, which can simplify the authentication of an open ID and reduce phishing and hacking risks by automatically performing an open ID-based login process without the need to manually input an open ID uniform resource locator (URL) to a login window. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100310078 | SYSTEM FOR USER-CENTRIC IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AND METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal for a user-centric identity management system includes: a browser that requests a service to the service provider server and receives a service parameter in which a plurality of selectable protocol parameters corresponding to the service are recorded from the service provider server; an interaction unit that selects any one protocol parameter among the plurality of protocol parameters by receiving the service parameter through the browser; and a service processing unit that performs a service protocol with the service provider server on the basis of the protocol parameter selected through the interaction unit, and receives token information required to receive the service from the service provider server and transfers the token information to the browser. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110126010 | SERVER, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IDENTITY - Disclosed herein is a system and method for managing identity. The system includes a mobile terminal, a web server, and a service terminal. The mobile terminal includes a smart card on which a management server for managing user identity is mounted. The web server generates the user identity and provides the generated identity to the management server over a wired/wireless network. The service terminal receives a required identity from the mobile terminal using Near Field Communication (NFC). | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110153800 | IDENTITY SHARING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An identity protocol gate way according to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes an artifact generating and inquiring module generating an artifact by receiving a sharing request message from a mobile identity wallet according to a request made by an application program of a mobile device, inquiring corresponding identity information according to a request of the identity information including the artifact from a web server and transferring the inquired identity information to the web server; and a protocol converting module converting the sharing request message into a protocol message of a wired environment by receiving the sharing request message from the mobile identity wallet, transferring the protocol message to the identity web server, transferring sharing response information and the artifact to the application program of the mobile device by using a mobile protocol in response to the sharing response information from the identity web server. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20090157222 | NETWORK-BASED ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CONTENT TRANSMISSION/EXECUTION THEREIN - A network-based robot system for performing content transmission/execution includes a content management unit for managing contents created in a tree-like, hierarchical structure, and one or more robots connected to the content management unit over a network. Each robot requests the content management unit to provide a content to be executed by the robot, downloads the content from the content management unit via the network, and determines a content execution plan to execute the content depending on specification of the robot. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100115524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREAD PROCESSING ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - An apparatus for thread processing robot software components includes a data port unit for storing input data in a buffer and then processing the data in a periodic execution mode or in a dedicated execution mode; an event port unit for processing an input event in a passive execution mode; and a method port unit for processing an input method call in the passive execution mode by calling a user-defined method corresponding to the method call. In the periodic execution mode, the data is processed by using an execution thread according to a period of a corresponding component. In the dedicated execution mode, a dedicated thread for the data is created and the data is processed by using the dedicated thread. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100161836 | METHOD PORT ARRANGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF FOR ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - A configuration method of a method port arrangement for robot software component includes: generating a requester method port module and a provider method port module; generating a requester method module and a provider method module depending on application of a method module to be generated in the component; registering the requester method module in the requester method port module and the provider method module in the provider method port module; and registering, in a method port management module, the requester method port module and the provider method port module where the requester method module and the provider method module have been registered. The method further includes establishing the requester method port module to be operated by interconnecting the requester method port module and the provider method port module; and executing input and output operations to/from the requester method port or the provider method port depending on application of the component. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100168911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ROBOT COMPONENTS - An apparatus for managing robot components in an intelligent robot includes a robot application including a plurality of robot components, a robot application management tool that manages the operation of the robot application, monitors the status caused by the operations of the robot application and information on the robot components, a lifecycle manager that manages lifecycles of the robot components under the management of the robot application management tool, and an operation system that transfers a sensing signal about peripheral environment generated from the sensor to the robot application, and transfers an execution signal from the robot application to the actuator. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100316039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RANGING CODE - An apparatus for generating a ranging code extracts a ranging code in each ranging mode, using a ranging code table storing one period data in bytes of the PN code according to a reference UL PermBase number, and an offset table that stores byte offsets for the start positions of the PN codes of the reference UL PermBase number and the other plurality of UL PermBase numbers and bit offsets in the byte including the start positions, on the basis of the PN code according to the reference UL PermBase number. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110054684 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING/ACQUIRING OPERATION RIGHT OF MOVING ROBOT IN MULTI-OPERATOR MULTI-ROBOT ENVIRONMENT - In an operating system having a first controller configured to manage one or more robots included in a first region, and a second controller configured to manage one or more robots included in a second region adjacent to the first region, a method for enabling the second controller to acquire an operation right of N robots (where N is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) operated by the first controller, the method includes: transmitting a control mapping status (CMS) containing an operation right change message to the first controller, upon reception of an operation right request signal from a user of the N robots; and checking a connection status of the N robots, upon reception of the CMS containing the operation right change message from the first controller, and acquiring an operation right by providing CMS acquisition information and control mapping information to the robots included in the second region. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110153073 | FAULT TOLERANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - An apparatus for performing fault tolerance against a failure occurring during driving robot software components includes: a component executor for executing the robot software components, which are assigned with one thread from an operating system and have a same priority and cycle, by using the assigned thread; and an executor monitor for periodically monitoring the operation of the component executor and determining whether or not there is a failure in the robot software components executed by the component executor. The apparatus further includes: an executor manager for generating the component executor which is assigned with the robot software components having the same priority and cycle and, when the executor monitor determines that there is a failure in the execution of the robot software components, generating a new component executor. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153079 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AND MONITORING ROBOT APPLICATION AND ROBOT DRIVEN THEREBY - Provided is a technology that effectively distributes and monitors the execution of robot application to allow a plurality of robots to perform tasks in cooperation with each other. An apparatus for distributing and monitoring robot application according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a robot information manager managing information of a plurality of robots constituted by a plurality of nodes classified by a driving function; a robot application generator generating the robot application combining a plurality of components for driving the plurality of robots; and a robot application controller distributing the robot application to the plurality of robots on the basis of the information of the plurality of robots and receiving execution monitoring information of the robot application. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154361 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COORDINATING OPERATION ACTION OF ROBOT SOFTWARE COMPONENT - Provided are an apparatus and a method of controlling the execution of components without an additional port or messaging for applying the dependency among the components. The apparatus comprises: a profile analyzing unit analyzing execution dependency information of components defined in an execution coordination profile; a component managing unit arranging the components in accordance with the execution sequence of the components caused by the execution dependency information; an execution coordination managing unit determining whether or not each of the components executes the operation on the basis of the execution dependency information of the corresponding component managed by the execution coordination units allocated to the components, respectively; and an operation executing unit executing the operation of each of the components in accordance with the determination result of the execution coordination manager. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20100161823 | A STREAMING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL VIDEO ACCESS BASED ON SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - Provided is a streaming service system and method for a universal video access based on scalable video coding (SVC). A gateway to provide a streaming service may include: an SVC content file parser to receive an SVC content file from a streaming server, and to separately extract an SVC network abstraction layer (NAL unit) of a base layer and an SVC NAL unit of a scalable enhancement layer from SVC NAL units that are included in the SVC content file; an SVC NAL selection unit to select an SVC NAL unit corresponding to a client type of each of terminals; and a packet generation unit to transmit the selected SVC NAL unit to a corresponding terminal. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100329360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SVC VIDEO AND AAC AUDIO SYNCHRONIZATION USING NPT - A method of supporting synchronization of Scalable Video Coding (SVC) information and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) information using a Normal Play Time (NPT), the method including: receiving video information using a decoding apparatus; receiving audio information using the decoding apparatus; calculating the NPT of the video information using a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) time stamp included in the received video information; calculating the NPT of the audio information using the RTP time stamp included in the received audio information; comparing the NPT of the video information and the NPT of the audio information to calculate a difference value; determining whether the calculated difference value is included in a specific synchronization region; and outputting the audio information and the video information when the calculated difference value is determined to be included in the specific synchronization region. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110055550 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESERVING SECURITY IN VIDEO MULTICASTING SERVICE - A method and an apparatus for maintaining information security in a video multicasting service are provided. The method includes: generating a network abstraction layer unit using received video information; encrypting the network abstraction layer unit of the video information; realtime transport protocol (RTP) packetizing the encrypted network abstraction layer unit of the video information; recording unit format information and field information, included in the network abstraction layer of the video information being stored in a memory, in a header extension field of the RTP header; and transmitting the RTP packet including the encrypted video information to a routing device. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110153731 | METHOD OF UPDATING CONTENT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT BEING SERVICED IN STREAMING SERVER GROUP - Provided is a method of updating content information associated with a content being serviced in a streaming server group. The content information updating method may include: monitoring whether a new streaming server joins a streaming server group servicing the same category of a content; updating content information associated with the content being serviced in the streaming server group, and transferring the updated content information to a client when the new streaming server joins; and providing a content service via the new streaming server according to a request of the client. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20090056448 | BIDIRECTIONAL READOUT CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING DIRECTION AND AMPLITUDE OF CAPACITIVE MEMS ACCELEROMETERS - There is provided a bidirectional readout circuit for detecting direction and amplitude of an oscillation sensed at a capacitive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer, the bidirectional readout circuit converting capacitance changes of the capacitive MEMS accelerometer into a time change amount by using high resolution capacitance-to-time conversion technology and outputting the time change amount as the direction and the amplitude of the oscillation by using time-to-digital conversion (TDC) technology, thereby detecting not only the amplitude of the oscillation but also the direction thereof, which is capable of being applied to various MEMS sensors. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090320595 | MICROMACHINED SENSOR FOR MEASURING VIBRATION - There is provided a micromachined sensor for measuring a vibration, based on silicone micromachining technology, in which a conductor having elasticity is connected to masses moving due to a force generated by the vibration and the vibration is measured by using induced electromotive force generated due to the conductor moving in a magnetic field. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100251826 | MICRO PIEZORESISTIVE PRESSURE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A micro semiconductor-type pressure sensor and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The micro semi-conductor-type pressure sensor is implemented by etching a cavity-formation region of a substrate to form a plurality of trenches, oxidizing the plurality of trenches through a thermal oxidation process to form a cavity-formation oxide layer, forming a membrane-formation material layer on upper portions of the cavity-formation oxide layer and the substrate, forming a plurality of etching holes in the membrane-formation material layer, removing the cavity-formation oxide layer through the plurality of etching holes to form a cavity buried in the substrate, forming a membrane reinforcing layer on an upper portion of the membrane-formation material layer to form a membrane for closing the cavity, and forming sensitive films made of a piezoresisive material on an upper portion of the membrane. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110150701 | CHEMICAL SENSOR USING METAL NANO-PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CHEMICAL SENSOR USING METAL NANO-PARTICLES - A chemical sensor using metal nano-particles and a method for manufacturing a chemical sensor using metal nano-particles are provided. The chemical sensor includes: metal nano-particles; single-ligand organic molecules (or a single molecule) that binds to the metal nano-particles by using a metal bonding functional group; a substrate bonding functional group formed at the metal nano-particles and the single-ligand organic molecules as bound to each other; a substrate; electrodes formed on the substrate and having an interdigitate (IDT) structure; and a substrate functional group formed on the substrate and positioned between the electrodes, wherein the substrate bonding functional group and the substrate functional group are covalently bonded. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20110133607 | POLYMER ACTUATOR CONTAINING GRAPHENE AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - A polymer actuator containing graphene and a method of preparing the same are provided. The polymer actuator includes an ion-conductive polymer membrane, a metal electrode disposed on both surfaces of the ion-conductive polymer membrane, and graphene dispersed within the ion-conductive polymer membrane. As the graphene is dispersed within the polymer membrane, reverse ion migration due to an osmotic pressure occurring after solvent migration caused by electrostimulation in operation of the actuator can be prevented, and thus drivability of the polymer actuator can be improved. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110140580 | METAL NONPARTICLE-POLYMER COMPOSITES, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND POLYMER ACTUATOR USING THE SAME - Metal nanoparticle-polymer composites, a method of manufacturing the same, and a polymer actuator using the same are provided. The method includes synthesizing an organometallic compound as a precursor of metal nanoparticles, preparing a solution mixture containing the organometallic compound and a polymer, and drying and annealing the solution mixture to generate the metal nanoparticle-polymer composite including metal nanoparticles. Thus, highly efficient metal nanoparticle-polymer composite materials may be manufactured with a uniform distribution without synthesizing nanoparticles. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141241 | MODULE FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL CAMERA - Provided is a convergence control module for a three-dimensional (3D) camera that can be operated with low power to reduce power consumption, which has been a problem in the 3D camera. A 3D camera module includes at least one camera module, a moving guide for supporting the camera module and providing a moving path, a control driver for moving the camera module along the moving guide, and a control unit for controlling the control driver. | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20100077261 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING THE FIVE SENSES INFORMATION, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REALISTIC SERVICE USING FIVE SENSES INTEGRATION INTERFACE - The present invention relates to a realistic service and system using a five senses integrated interface, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for encoding the five senses and a system and method for providing realistic service using a five senses integrated interface, to allow a user to select a product to sensorially experience through an integrated interface in a remote location, which includes a integration recognizer detecting data selected by the user and recognizing an object, and transmitting five senses data of the object through a network, a five senses data analyzer receiving a five senses data packet including the five senses data of the object through the network, and extracting and analyzing the five senses data packet in terms of data on each of the five senses, and a five senses integration representer representing five senses using the data on each of the five senses. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20110065549 | REAL TIME AUTOMATIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF SPORTING GOODS AND CONTROL METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a real time automatic control system and more particularly, there are provided a system providing sports suitable for a user by automatically controlling sporting goods by considering health history information and state information of a user in real time while the user is playing sports using the sporting goods, and a control method using the same. For this, there is provided a real time automatic control system of sporting goods that includes: a sensor device outputting condition information including a rating of perceived exertion of a user in real time; a server device storing profile information including health history information and sporting history information of the user; and an exercise intensity setting device setting an optimal exercise intensity by using the condition information and the profile information, and controlling the sporting goods in real time in accordance with the optimal exercise intensity. | 03-17-2011 |