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

Ic card with multi-point of contact

A mobile phone for data acquisition using a detecting apparatus is provided to apply the wireless terminal to various apparatus for operating with the predetermined bio-information detecting apparatus or the sensor by collecting data or analog signal A signal collection unit(150) collects the predetermined analog signal from a detecting apparatus(160) detecting the predetermined signal or data An ADC(Analog Digital Converter) converts the analog signal into the predetermined data A storage stores the data to a memory unit for the statistical methods of predetermined numerical analysis In case the apparatus or the sensor is connected to the wireless terminal, the signal collection unit collects the analog signal through the electrical contact or the cable from the detecting apparatus

Mobile phone for collecting data

PURPOSE: A method for supplying a wireless coupon using a digital camera is provided to supply a wireless coupon through a wireless terminal having a digital camera by recognizing a pattern image including coupon creation information encoded through a medium capable of outputting an image using a digital camera mounted in the wireless terminal and creating a wireless coupon from encoded coupon creation information included in the pattern image. CONSTITUTION: A pattern image including coupon creation information is output on a coupon supply screen of a client(500). The pattern image is recognized through a digital camera mounted in a wireless terminal(505). The coupon creation information included in the recognized pattern image is extracted through a pattern image coupon agent mounted the wireless terminal(545). A wireless coupon capable of being used on an on/off line store is created by referring to the extracted coupon creation information(550). The created wireless coupon is outputted on a wireless terminal and used(565).

System and Method for Mobile Coupons by Using Digital Camera

PURPOSE: A system and a method for operating goods or service review and a recording medium thereof are provided to share use reviews about goods or services through homepages of a product manufacturing company or a product or service providing company CONSTITUTION: Reviews about goods or services registered in one or more websites are collected(705) Review connection application target goods and services that a company requests are checked among the collected reviews(710) It is checked whether a banned word is included in a review about the review connection application target goods and services(720) The collected goods or service reviews are registered in a homepage of the company(730)

System and method for providing goods(or service) review and recording medium

PURPOSE: A direction detection system is provided to allow users to easily recognize and judge their position and advancing direction by providing information on the user position and advancing direction through simple sign or symbol like arrow mark. CONSTITUTION: A direction detection system has a function of providing a constant azimuth value regardless of the change of direction of mobile communication equipment by mounting, as an independent module, a magnetometer with geomagnetic field measuring function, to the mobile communication equipment; and a function of providing users of mobile communication equipment with information regarding position and advancing direction, by using the azimuth value provided from the magnetometer with geomagnetic field measuring function. The direction detection system includes a geomagnetic field measuring unit(421) for detecting geomagnetic field and protecting the system from erroneous operation caused due to perturbation or physical force applied from an external source; an azimuth calculation unit(422) for calculating azimuth for internal coordinate system of mobile communication equipment by using the data obtained from the geomagnetic field measuring unit and GPS/GIS system; and an azimuth correction system(423) for correcting the azimuth value measured by the geomagnetic field measuring unit.

Hong Jong Cheol

Papers

Ic card with multi-point of contact

Mobile phone for collecting data

System and Method for Mobile Coupons by Using Digital Camera

System and method for providing goods(or service) review and recording medium

Direction-finding system embedded in wireless telecommunication devices for sensing geographical magnetic field