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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2002
Mikhail Prokopenko, Lane Cove, AU;
Dong Mei Zhang, Carlingford, AU;
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Carlton, AU;
Thomas Phillip Alexander Howard, Wamberal, AU;
Farhad Fuad Islam, Apex, NC (US);
Michael Alexander Oldfield, Eastwood, AU;
Mikhail Prokopenko, Lane Cove, AU;
Dong Mei Zhang, Carlingford, AU;
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Carlton, AU;
Thomas Phillip Alexander Howard, Wamberal, AU;
Farhad Fuad Islam, Apex, NC (US);
Michael Alexander Oldfield, Eastwood, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.