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Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Otsuka, Tokyo, JP;

Kyosuke Nishida, Tokyo, JP;

Narichika Nomoto, Tokyo, JP;

Hisako Asano, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06N 5/043 (2023.01); H04L 51/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/90324 (2019.01); G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06N 5/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

To enable provision of appropriate information for a user query even in a case there are multiple information provision modules which are different in answer generation processing. A query sending unitsends a user query to each one of a plurality of information provision module unitsthat are different in the answer generation processing and that each generate an answer candidate for the user query. An output control unitperforms control such that the answer candidate acquired from each one of the plurality of information provision module unitsis displayed on a display uniton a per-agent basis with information on an agent associated with that information provision module unit


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