Information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11475336-B2
Application number	US-201917251051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2019
Priority date	Jul 18, 2018
Publication date	Oct 18, 2022
Grant date	Oct 18, 2022

Abstract

An information processing system includes a control unit (200) that controls: a personal agent personalized to a user; and a group agent that provides support for a group made up of a plurality of users corresponding to a plurality of the personal agents.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing system comprising:
a control circuit that controls:
a personal agent personalized to a user and configured to provide support to the user; and
a group agent that provides support for a group made up of a plurality of users corresponding to a plurality of personal agents by cooperating with the plurality of personal agents.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit sets any one of determination criteria based on information acquired from the plurality of users and preset determination criteria as personal determination criteria of the personal agent.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein the control circuit updates the personal determination criteria according to a feedback of the corresponding user of the plurality of users with respect to a matter recommended by the personal agent according to the personal determination criteria.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit sets any one of personal determination criteria of a specific user and preset determination criteria as group determination criteria of the group agent.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4 , wherein
the control circuit updates determination criteria of the group agent according to a feedback of a predetermined user with respect to a matter recommended by the group agent according to the group determination criteria.

6. The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein the control circuit updates the group determination criteria according to the feedback of the predetermined user with respect to the matter recommended by the group agent according to the group determination criteria.

7. The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein
the control circuit updates the group determination criteria according to feedbacks of the plurality of users belonging to the group with respect to the matter recommended by the group agent according to the group determination criteria.

8. The information processing system according to claim 4 , wherein
the control circuit fixes the group determination criteria when the preset determination criteria are set as the group determination criteria.

9. The information processing system according to claim 4 , wherein
the control circuit sets at least a part of the personal determination criteria so as not to be applied to the group determination criteria.

10. The information processing system according to claim 9 , wherein the control circuit performs control so that information including a keyword set to be closed by the specific user among the personal determination criteria is not applied to the group determination criteria.

11. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit compares
group determination criteria of a first group agent associated with a personal agent of a first user, and
group determination criteria of a second group agent associated with a personal agent of a second user, and

associates a new group agent having determination criteria including common parts and parts present in only one group agent with the personal agent of the first user and the personal agent of the second user.

12. The information processing system according to claim 11 , wherein
the control circuit deletes association between the personal agent of the first user and the new group agent and associates the first group agent with the personal agent of the first user.

13. The information processing system according to claim 11 , wherein the control circuit deletes association between the personal agent of the first user and the new group agent and takes over a group determination criteria of the new group agent to another new group agent associated with the personal agent of the first user.

14. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit is capable of generating a new group agent based on the personal agent belonging to the group.

15. The information processing system according to claim 14 , wherein
the control circuit uses the personal determination criteria of the personal agent as the group determination criteria of the new generated group agent.

16. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit forms the group by associating the group agent with the plurality of the personal agents.

17. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the group agent is capable of accessing information that is open to another user by the user, and
the personal agent is capable of accessing information that is not open to another user by the user, as well.

18. An information processing method for causing a processor to control:
a personal agent personalized to a user and configured to provide support to the user; and
a group agent that provides support for a group made up of a plurality of users corresponding to a plurality of the personal agents by cooperating with the plurality of personal agents.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon, the program, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to function as a control circuit that controls:
a personal agent personalized to a user and configured to provide support to the user; and
a group agent that provides support for a group made up of a plurality of users corresponding to a plurality of the personal agents by cooperating with the plurality of personal agents.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Ono Hideyuki

Classifications

• G06F16/906

  Clustering; Classification · CPC title

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• G06F16/9035 Primary

  Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles · CPC title

• G06F16/908

  using metadata automatically derived from the content · CPC title