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 method for relaying an application is provided to utilize the application for a smart card through a network system including a service relay server, a client terminal, and a service requestor server by using a unique code and/or key value linked with the application, and minimize a storage capacity of the smart card by storing the unique code and/or key value. A service relay server links/stores an application to be relayed by responding to a service requestor and a unique code corresponding to the application to a storage medium(210). The service relay server extracts the unique code corresponding to the application selected or requested by a client terminal from the storage medium, and provides the unique code to the client terminal(225). The service relay server provides application information and the unique code corresponding to the application to the service requestor requesting relay of the application selected or requested by the client terminal(230). The application is a discount coupon, a ticket, a gift certificate, a lottery ticket, a prescription, a meal ticket, electronic cash and a service.

Method for operating application(or data)

Mobile devices with function of reading rfid, recording medium, system and method for operating rfid information

A system for recommending a payment means is provided to enable a client to determine the efficiency and adequacy of a card which he/she possesses by providing the client with information about different cards which offer a service and/or benefit similar to his/her card. A system for recommending a payment means includes the followings: a means which linking-processes information about a plurality of payment means and additional information(information about the use of a payment means, service information and customer benefit information) corresponding to the payment means information in a storage medium; a means which compares the additional information of the payment means provided by the client with additional information previously stored in the storage medium to extract or generate information about the second payment means having additional information corresponding to the additional information provided by the client; and a means which provides the information about the second payment means to the client.

System for recommending payment means

A system and a method for lending deposit, and a recording medium and an information storage medium for the same are provided to lend the deposit of a first client to a second client corresponding to loan condition by receiving/linking the loan condition with first client information and providing the deposit to the second client corresponding to the received loan condition A first client terminal(110) or a program transmits loan condition for deposit deposited in a financial facility to a server(100) The server stores the received loan condition to a storage medium(105) by linking with first client information and/or first client account information, and lends the deposit to a second client corresponding to the loan condition A second client terminal(115) or the program requests a loan corresponding to the loan condition by connecting to a server The server includes a receiver(200), a loan processor(205), a storage(210), a transmitter(215), a loan interest processor(220), a judging part(225), a security setting part(230), an approving part(235), a loan condition checking part(240) and an information providing part(245) The receiver receives the loan condition, and the storage links/stores the loan condition and the first client information and/or the first client account information to the storage medium The loan processor lends the deposit of the first client to the second client corresponding to the loan condition

System and method for lending deposit, information storing medium and recording medium

A method for operating an LBS(Location Based Service) is provided to prevent unnecessary information from being provided according to location movement of a user in the conventional LBS and to prevent infringement of privacy according to unnecessary exposure of location of a wireless communication unit A method for operating an LBS comprises the following several steps If a wireless communication unit requests a contents providing server to provide one and more pieces of location based contents(300), the contents providing server extracts one and more pieces of location based contents from a location based contents database(305) and checks whether the location information included in the extracted contents is compatible with an independent type location measurement unit of the wireless communication unit(310) If not in the step 310(315), the contents providing server processes the location information of the extracted contents for being compatible with the independent type location measurement unit(320) If so in the step 310 or the location contents are processed for being compatible with the measurement unit(325), the wireless communication unit selects a storage medium where the location based contents are stored(330) Then, the contents providing server processes the location based contents for being stored at the selected storage medium(335) The contents providing server transmits the location based contents to the wireless communication unit(340) and the wireless communication unit stores the location based contents at the selected storage medium(345) If the location information is not separated from the location based contents when the location based contents is stored(350), the procedure for storing the location based contents is terminated If a user determines that the location information is separated from the location based contents when the location based contents is stored(355), the wireless communication unit separates the location information from the location based contents and stores the separated contents for rapid search of the location information(360)

Hong Jong Cheol

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Method for operating application(or data)

Mobile devices with function of reading rfid, recording medium, system and method for operating rfid information

System for recommending payment means

System and method for lending deposit, information storing medium and recording medium

Method for operating location based service