An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.

Using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant

A mobile terminal and a control method thereof, which can obtain an image, are provided. A mobile terminal (100) includes a camera unit (121), a pictogram extraction unit (182) and a controller (180). The camera unit (121) obtains image information corresponding to at least one of a still image and a moving image. The pictogram extraction unit (182) extracts at least one pictogram from the obtained image information. The controller (180) detects information related to the extracted pictogram, and displays the detected information to be overlapped with the obtained image information. In the mobile terminal, the controller (180) includes, as the detected information, at least one of previously recorded information and currently searched information related to the extracted pictogram.

Mobile terminal and control method thereof

In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler and to store mapping data between first user identifiers and first account identifiers, a profile generator to generate a profile of a user based on the transaction data, and a portal coupled to the transaction handler to receive a query identifying a second user identifier used by the first tracker to track online activities of a user. The system is to identify a second account identifier of the user from the second user identifier based on the mapping data between the first user identifiers and the first account identifiers to facilitate targeted advertising using the profile of the user and/or to provide information about certain transactions of the user related to a previously presented advertisement.

Systems and methods to match identifiers

A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. Embodiments of the present invention rely on the concept of “active ontologies” (e.g., execution environments constructed in an ontology-like manner) to build and run applications for use by intelligent automated assistants. In one specific embodiment, a method for building an automated assistant includes interfacing a service-oriented architecture that includes a plurality of remote services to an active ontology, where the active ontology includes at least one active processing element that models a domain. At least one of the remote services is then registered for use in the domain.

Method and apparatus for building an intelligent automated assistant

A system and a method for operating RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) information, and an RFID information operation device and a recording medium for the same are provided to obtain PR(Public Relation) information related to an article in addition to basic information of the article corresponding to an RFID tag by extracting the information corresponding to the RFID data when the RFID tag is read. The second information extractor(105) selects and/or extracts the second information corresponding to the information corresponding to the RFID data from a storage medium(115). The second information operator(110) transmits the selected and/or extracted second information to the second information storage medium(120), and/or stores the second information to the third storage medium(125) by linking with unique ID information of an RFID data transmitter(145). The second information includes the information corresponding to a goods name, a keyword, and/or an index included in the RFID data, and more than one additional and/or PR information corresponding to the RFID data.

System and method for operating rfid information, devices for operating rfid information and recording medium

A portable telephone and a portable telephone-readable recording medium are provided to offer a radio terminal synchronized with an RFID(Radio Frequency ID), thereby previously finding out hidden cameras or eavesdropping devices installed in a private space. A controller has a remote control processor for remote-controlling a radio terminal based on remote control information. The remote control information is extracted or generated from a remote control server on a radio network. An RFID information reader is composed of an antenna for receiving RFID information from an RFID tag attached on at least one product around the radio terminal, and an RFID information-reading module for reading the RFID information. The RFID information read by the RFID information reader is provided to the remote control server through a radio network, and then compared with at least one database of the remote control server. An RFID readout information is generated based on the compared result. The RFID readout information is provided to the remote control server on the radio network via a radio processor. The remote control server determines whether the radio terminal is remote-controlled or not, based on the RFID readout information.

Mobile phone and program recording medium

A system for operating characterized coupons with a smart card and an IC chip for the same are provided to enable a user to receive benefits such as discriminated incentive through a member shop terminal linked with a characterized coupon applet by discriminatingly providing the incentive according to predetermined time or frequency and installing the characterized coupon applet including characterized information to the smart card of the user. A provider issues characterized coupon data discriminatingly applying the incentive according to the predetermined date or time, and provides the issued characterized coupon data to the smart card(100). A characterized coupon processor inquires the predetermined date of the characterized coupon from the smart card, and determines application date of the characterized coupon by comparing the predetermined date with current date data. A characterized coupon processor inquires the predetermined frequency of the characterized coupon from the smart card, and determines an application frequency of the characterized coupon by comparing the predetermined frequency with that of accumulation data of the current characterized coupon. The characterized coupon processor discriminatingly applies the incentive to the characterized coupon by activating the characterized coupon depending on a determination result.

System for operating qualified coupon using smart card(or ic card) and ic chip

A system and a method for card payment, a server, a payment terminal and a program recording medium are provided to prevent an unauthorized use of a lost or stolen card by using a vehicle license plate number A payment approval request statement including a card number and payment information read from a client card is received to a statement receiver(1905) A number confirming unit(1915) confirms whether a vehicle license plate number corresponding to the card number is included in the received payment approval request statement as described above exists in a storage medium(830) or not If the vehicle license plate number exists, a member shop confirming unit(1920) confirms whether the member store information included in the payment approval request statement is a vehicle usage member shop or not If the member shop is a vehicle usage member shop, the incentive provider(1925) provides a predetermined incentive for a client

System and method for card payment, server, payment terminal and program recording medium

A voice payment transaction method for performing payment process by extracting a payment command set connected with voice recognition data from a memory is provided to improve the convenience of wireless payment by simplifying a process of wireless payment. A wireless terminal compares audio data which a user inputs and voice recognition data already stored in a memory. A wireless terminal determines whether the compared data is matched with each other(355). In case audio data which the user inputs and voice recognition data already stored in memory are matched, the wireless terminal extracts the payment command set which voice recognition data and link is processed from the memory(360). The payment command set extracted from the wireless terminal(375).

Hong Jong Cheol

Papers

System and method for operating rfid information, devices for operating rfid information and recording medium

Mobile phone and program recording medium

System for operating qualified coupon using smart card(or ic card) and ic chip

System and method for card payment, server, payment terminal and program recording medium

Method for processing voice payment