Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Thomas Phillip Alexander Howard

Michael Alexander Oldfield

Farhad Fuad Islam

Dong Mei Zhang

Ryszard Kowalczyk

Mikhail Prokopenko

A system () for earning functional usage patterns of a user of the system () and for planning a best sequences of events suitable for a particular user in a particular context is disclosed. Information relating to user decisions, such as the context during which the decision was made and the actual user decision, is gathered by the DTV-agent () and delivered to the active avatar agent (). The learning module () operates to identify all generalization patterns from a number of instances. Method () then determines which particular decision is most appropriate by comparing the generalization patterns with the current context for which a decision must be made. Clusters of such behavior patterns are formed with each cluster having the same number of matched attributes. A decision selecting process then selects a decision which is most appropriate to the current context from the behavior patterns.

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Wamberal, Australia

Thomas Phillip Alexander Howard