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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2003
Applicants:
Tetsuo Kosaka, Yonezawa, JP;
Hiroki Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenichiro Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are an interactive system and method of controlling the same for achieving a task more efficiently. Items of data to be searched are stored in a memory () in a form classified according to prescribed classes, and a dialog controller () decides the order in which questions are presented to a user in order to narrow down the object of a search to data in a specific class. The questions are then presented to the user in the decided order by a question generator ().