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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2007
Takehide Yano, Yokohama, JP;
Takehide Yano, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dialog apparatus includes a dialog unit configured to perform a dialog with a user and to collect a plurality of items to be referred to in accordance with the dialog as the dialog continues, a dividing unit configured to divide the items into normal items related to any usable application and unusable items related to any usable application deleted, a managing unit configured to manage the items which the dialog unit refers to during the dialog with the user, in the normal items and the unusable items, an applying unit configured to apply a plurality of changes in the items to managing of the normal items and the unusable items, and a referring unit configured to refer to the managing unit in accordance with the items collected by the dialog unit and to determine to output a use-disapproval notice when the collected items include at least one unusable item.