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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:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Matthias Wagner, Munich, DE;
Wolf-tilo Balke, Hannover, DE;
Inventors:
Matthias Wagner, Munich, DE;
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Hannover, DE;
Assignee:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of discovering at least one service being advertised in a communication system using at least one service ontology describing service characteristics with service attributes supports user-centered and personalized discovery of services. A discovery statement is formulated as a function of the query term and services with service attributes matching the discovery statement are discovered using the structure implied by the service ontology.