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

PURPOSE: A multi-level wireless advertisement mail system is provided to track all the tasks of a client from a step of receiving an advertisement mail from an advertisement agent server system to a step of retransmitting the advertisement to other mail addresses by using a mail directory stored at a mobile terminal so that it can activate a wireless advertisement mail transmission CONSTITUTION: The system comprises an advertisement agent server(20), a mail server(40) of the first advertisement receiver, a mail browser(50), an advertisement mail receiver, an advertisement mail retransmitter, advertisement mail tracking agents, and a tracking server The advertisement agent server(20) transmits an advertisement mail to the mail server(40) of the first advertisement receiver The mail browser(50) receives the advertisement mail from the mail server(40), and transmits the advertisement mail to the advertisement mail receiver, which filters the mail and outputs an effective mail on a display The advertisement mail retransmitter adds a profit distribution key to the filtered advertisement mail, and transmits the mail to other mail accounts stored in an address directory The advertisement tracking agent reports the mail receiving and transmission processes to the tracking server(26) The advertisement mail, transmitted by the first advertisement receiver, is transmitted to the second advertisement receiver without going by way of the advertisement agent The second advertisement receiver performs the same processes as the first advertisement receiver, such as an addition of a profit distribution key to the mail and a transmission of the mail to other mail accounts Also, the advertisement tracking agent reports the mail receiving and transmission processes to the tracking server(26)

System for tracking and managing multi-level advertising e-mails on wireless telecommunication devices

A method for providing advertisement by using a customer pattern is provided to enable member shops to offer various kinds of discriminated customer services to a customer by storing a customer pattern code to a customer card and enabling a member shop terminal to check a customer pattern code stored in the customer card when the customer performs payment with the customer card. A customer pattern code classifying a customer pattern is stored to a storage medium by linking with the customer pattern(505). The customer pattern code is provided to a customer. A web server receives the customer pattern code from a customer terminal connected through the wired/wireless network. The web server checks the customer pattern linked with the received customer pattern code(530). AD(ADvertisement) data, which is classified into each customer pattern code, matched with the checked client pattern is output to the customer terminal(545). The customer pattern code includes AD information based on the customer pattern. The customer terminal includes more than one of a PC connected to the wired Internet, a wireless terminal, a kiosk terminal, and a member shop card terminal like a POS(Point Of Sale) terminal.

Method for providing advertisement by using customer disposition data

A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for realizing a mobile loan contract relay function is provided to offer a deposit of a loaner client to a borrower client fit for loan condition information by referring to the loan condition information if a terminal or a program of the loaner client which deposits an amount of money to a bank transmits the loan condition information to a bank server. The program stores the loan condition information received from the first client to a storage medium by linking with the first client information and/or the first client account information. The program receives loan request information and the second client authentication information from the second client mobile terminal directly or through a relay server. The program checks whether the second client is fit for the loan condition information based on the loan request information and/or the second client authentication information. The program offers the deposit of the first client to the second client if the second client is fit for the loan condition information.

A computer readable recording medium for relaying mobile money borrow and lending contract

PURPOSE: A proxy settlement method is provided to perform a proxy settlement through a proxy settlement client when a client can not use a holding settlement tool, as storing the proxy settlement client information to perform the proxy settlement of the client in a proxy settlement server. CONSTITUTION: The proxy settlement server receives the client information and the proxy settlement client information from the client holding the settlement tool(310). The proxy settlement server links/stores the client information and the proxy settlement client information in a database(315). When the client can not use the settlement tool, a settlement tool I/O(Input/Output) terminal generates/transmits a proxy settlement request message including the client information to the proxy settlement server(355). The proxy settlement server extracts the proxy settlement client information linked with the client information from the database(360). The proxy settlement is performed with the settlement tool of the proxy settlement client(390).

Proxy settlement method by extracting information of proxy settlement client

PURPOSE: A method and a system for recommending a gift are provided to make a client wanting to present the gift easily present the gift to a person anonymously by considering the preference of the person CONSTITUTION: The method comprises the steps of a client selecting a gift recommending service by connecting to an intermediation server, showing a product list page for the gift to the client(300), the client setting up the product list by selecting the products from the product list page and transmitting a mobile communication terminal number and an e-mail address of a gift receiver to the server(305), and the server transmitting the selected product list to the mobile communication terminal number and the e-mail address by writing out in a format such as a short message and a mail main paragraph(310) The responding data is received to the server(315) and the checked product in the responding data is informed to the client as a web page, the short message and a mail(320) The client buys the most preferred product by seeing the responding result(325)

Hong Jong Cheol

Papers

System for tracking and managing multi-level advertising e-mails on wireless telecommunication devices

Method for providing advertisement by using customer disposition data

A computer readable recording medium for relaying mobile money borrow and lending contract

Proxy settlement method by extracting information of proxy settlement client

Method and system for recommending gifts