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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127856 | ELECTRONIC PATCH DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD IN NETWORK SYSTEM Provided are an electronic patch device, network system, and operation method in the network system. The network system includes n (n is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) network equipments, a backup network equipment used for backing up one of the n network ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110546 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING APPLICATIONS AUTOMATICALLY Disclosed are an apparatus and method for generating applications. A plurality of source codes corresponding to functional modules of the applications are stored in the module storage unit 120. The request analysis unit analyzes a request received from a client w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110205 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENSURING FAIRNESS OF UDP DATA TRANSMISSION IN ETHERNET ENVIRONMENT Provided are an apparatus and method for ensuring fairness of user datagram protocol (UDP) data transmission in an Ethernet environment. Transmission control protocol (TCP) transmission rate calculator calculates a current TCP transmission rate based on amount of a TCP ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109862 | USER DEVICE AND METHOD OF RECOGNIZING USER CONTEXT A method and user device for recognizing a user context are provided. The method includes: recognizing at least one behavior generated from an object by analyzing a signal obtained by at least one sensor from among a plurality of sensors included in a user device; and r... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109615 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING BIOMARKERS An apparatus and method for extracting biomarkers with higher reliability by analyzing toxicity indicating how genetic variants appearing in sequences affect gene functions are provided. The apparatus includes a pre-processor that analyzes sequences of samples of genes ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106571 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA A method and an apparatus for transmitting data are provided. The method and the apparatus for transmitting data obtain reception information of a packet received by a reception apparatus on a virtual machine installed on an operating system of the data transmission app... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120047366 | SOC WITH SECURITY FUNCTION AND DEVICE AND SCANNING METHOD USING THE SAME A system-on-chip (SOC) for semiconductor intellectual property (IP), a device including the same, and a method of operating the same are provided. The SOC includes: an interface which receives scanning data from a main module in which the SOC is mounted; and an anti-vir... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042375 | SYSTEM-ON-CHIP MALICIOUS CODE DETECTION APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR A MOBILE DEVICE System-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based apparatus for detecting malicious code in portable terminal is provided. Apparatus includes SoC including hardware-based firewall packet-filtering packet received from outside through media ac... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036572 | SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP MALICIOUS CODE DETECTION APPARATUS FOR A MOBILE DEVICE System-on-chip (SoC)-based apparatus for detecting malicious code in portable terminal is provided. SoC-based apparatus includes SoC including central processing unit (CPU) configured to generally control respective units of SoC for SoC-based malicious code detection, S... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036571 | SMART CARD, ANTI-VIRUS SYSTEM AND SCANNING METHOD USING THE SAME A smart card installed in a device receives from the device data to be scanned and determines whether a virus exists in the data. Accordingly, security of the device may be enhanced without using substantial resources of the device.... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120023584 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOC-BASED ANTI-MALWARE SERVICE, AND INTERFACE METHOD A device in which a system-on-chip (SOC) providing an anti-malware service is mounted and a method of performing the anti-malware service are provided. The device includes: a storage unit which stores a function library which is a collection of operations provided for u... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110321044 | CLIENT HYPERVISOR-BASED TERMINAL DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF A client hypervisor-based terminal device includes an advertisement module that provides an advertisement, an advertisement time controlling part that monitors a user time of a user module, and a client hypervisor part which operates the advertisement module based on a ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314548 | ANTI-MALWARE DEVICE, SERVER, AND METHOD OF MATCHING MALWARE PATTERNS An efficient virus detection, malware detection, and packet filtering system in a mobile device by providing optimized hash functions from a server to a mobile device that reduce hash collisions during the virus detection, malware detection, and packet filtering in a sy... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314547 | ANTI-MALWARE SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF An anti-malware device and an operating method thereof are provided. The operating method includes: filtering by a first logic unit of the processor, input data based on a rule; and scanning by a second logic unit of the processor, for malware in the data, the filtering... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110295894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING PATTERN System and method for matching a pattern are provided. The pattern matching method includes performing a sub pattern matching operation to match at least one sub data of a plurality of sub data of a target data with a pre-stored pattern data, and performing a full patte... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110254620 | POWER INTERFACE CIRCUIT OF CONTACT IC CARD READER A power interface circuit of a contact integrated circuit (IC) card reader is provided. The power interface circuit includes a power control unit configured to invert, amplify and output a power control signal supplied from the outside, a switching diode unit configured... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110126287 | ANTI-VIRUS PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF An anti-virus protection system and method including receiving an address of a data server from a user, writing and transmitting a request message including the address received from the user, receiving the data from the data server, and determining whether the data con... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110103581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING NON-INTERACTIVE KEY AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION SECURITY USING THE SAME A method and apparatus for generating a non-interactive key, and a method for communication security using the same. A event is detected, and keys are generated based on the detected event. Thus, keys are generated using a small number of calculating operations with a s... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103360 | LOCATION TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS DEVICE USING WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT Provided are real time location tracking system and method of a wireless device using a wireless LAN AP, the system and method include measuring intensities of APs that are currently detected by the wireless device of which location is to be estimated, collecting ADD, c... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20100299753 | Method of Preventing TCP-Based Denial-of-Service Attacks on Mobile Devices Provided is a method of preventing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)-based Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a mobile device. The method efficiently prevents a DoS attack on a mobile device, which wirelessly and constantly transmits TCP packets to the mobile device ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100145950 | Realtime Unification Management Information Data Conversion and Monitoring Apparatus and Method for Thereof Provided are an apparatus and method for converting and monitoring management information data in an integrated manner and in real time. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for converting and monitoring management information data... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100122112 | System and Method for Communication Error Processing in Outside Channel Combination Environment Provided are a system and method for processing communication errors in an outside channel combination environment. The system includes: first and second outside-affairs servers connected with a plurality of user terminals and having respective outside-affairs processin... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100095283 | Migration Apparatus Which Convert Application Program of Mainframe System into Application Program of Open System and Method for Thereof Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting an application program of a mainframe system into an appropriate application program for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: a source obtaining module connected with the mainframe system, and dec... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100088763 | Method for Preventing Denial of Service Attacks Using Transmission Control Protocol State Transition Disclosed is a method of preventing a denial of service (DoS) attack using transmission control protocol (TCP) state transition. Flow of packets transmitted between a client and a server using TCP is monitored to prevent the DoS attack, e.g., SYN flooding, and to effici... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100088552 | Method for Obstruction and Capacity Information Unification Monitoring in Unification Management System Environment and System for Thereof Provided are a method and system for integrated monitoring of fault and performance information in an integrated management system environment including an integrated management server that interworks with a managed server having a built-in agent for the sake of integra... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100088353 | Migration Apparatus Which Convert Database of Mainframe System into Database of Open System and Method for Thereof Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting a database of a mainframe system into an appropriate database for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: a data extraction module connected with a database of the mainframe system and extracting dat... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100085214 | Parking Place Confirmation System and Method Thereof Disclosed is a system and method for checking a parking position that enables a parking lot user to conveniently check a position of a vehicle that he/she has parked using his/her mobile communication terminal. When a customer with a mobile communication terminal having... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100082708 | System and Method for Management of Performance Fault Using Statistical Analysis A system includes: at least one managed resource having an agent for collecting and transmitting performance information; an integrated management server for receiving the information and managing it in an integrated manner; a statistical information generating module f... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100077480 | Method for Inferring Maliciousness of Email and Detecting a Virus Pattern Provided is a method of distinguishing an abnormal e-mail and determining whether an e-mail is affected with a virus. The method includes the steps of: decoding a received e-mail packet in a readable format and then analyzing and classifying a header of the packet accor... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100042661 | Rehosting Method Which Convert Mainframe System into Open System Provided is a rehosting method for converting a mainframe system environment into an open system environment. The rehosting method rebuilds hardware (HAV) and software (SAV) of a company-data processing mainframe system environment to be appropriate for an open system e... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042640 | Migration Apparatus Which Convert SAM/VSAM Files of Mainframe System into SAM/VSAM Files of Open System and Method for Thereof Provided are a migration apparatus and method for converting a sequential access method (SAM)/virtual storage access method (VSAM) file of a mainframe system into an appropriate SAM/VSAM file for an open system. The migration apparatus includes: an information obtaining... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100017657 | System and Method for Performance Test in Outside Channel Combination Environment Provided are a system and method for a performance test in an outside channel combination environment. In an outside channel combination environment including first and second outside-affairs servers in an active-active form, first and second outside channel combination... | 01/21/2010 |
