Patents by Inventor Shigefumi IINUMA

Shigefumi IINUMA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11798053
    Abstract: Provided is an information provision system which determines preference of a user based on a dialogue with the user utilizing an Internet shopping site and determines a recommended commodity based on the determined preference. An information provision server in an information provision system receives utterance (input) by a user utilizing an Internet shopping site via a user terminal and provides a response thereto onto the user terminal, thereby performing control so as to have a conversation with the user. Further, based on the input by the user and user attributes, the information provision server determines a user type of the user and when a recommended commodity is presented to the user, determines the recommended commodity from among commodities purchased by other user whose user type is the same as the user type of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Henmi, Shigefumi Iinuma, Takaaki Okade
  • Publication number: 20200320604
    Abstract: Provided is an information provision system which determines preference of a user based on a dialogue with the user utilizing an Internet shopping site and determines a recommended commodity based on the determined preference. An information provision server in an information provision system receives utterance (input) by a user utilizing an Internet shopping site via a user terminal and provides a response thereto onto the user terminal, thereby performing control so as to have a conversation with the user. Further, based on the input by the user and user attributes, the information provision server determines a user type of the user and when a recommended commodity is presented to the user, determines the recommended commodity from among commodities purchased by other user whose user type is the same as the user type of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Takuo HENMI, Shigefumi IINUMA, Takaaki OKADE
  • Patent number: 10558335
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing system for a system administrator not highly skilled in the arts of natural language or artificial intelligence to be able to easily correct or add a response to an input from a user to arrange the response into an appropriate one if the response is not appropriate. When an input sentence does not hit any knowledge data, the system administrator is able to add a combination of the input sentence and a response thereto by opening a new QA quick addition screen from a knowledge maintenance screen by pressing a link of the input sentence. Furthermore, the system administrator is able to easily add the input sentence to knowledge data as a synonymous sentence of a candidate Q, which is determined to be semantically close to the input sentence, by clicking the candidate Q on the knowledge maintenance screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Henmi, Shigefumi Iinuma
  • Patent number: 10339222
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing system capable of changing a response to an input from a user based on a predetermined response condition and further making a user terminal to perform a specified behavior (action) in outputting the response. An information providing server selects a reference text semantically closest to the input sentence from a user from knowledge data to determine a response text associated with the reference text. If a plurality of response texts are associated with the reference text, the information providing server determines the response in accordance with the response condition. Furthermore, the information providing server controls the user terminal to perform the behavior registered with the reference text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Henmi, Shigefumi Iinuma
  • Publication number: 20170091846
    Abstract: Provided is an information provision system which determines preference of a user based on a dialogue with the user utilizing an Internet shopping site and determines a recommended commodity based on the determined preference. An information provision server in an information provision system receives utterance (input) by a user utilizing an Internet shopping site via a user terminal and provides a response thereto onto the user terminal, thereby performing control so as to have a conversation with the user. Further, based on the input by the user and user attributes, the information provision server determines a user type of the user and when a recommended commodity is presented to the user, determines the recommended commodity from among commodities purchased by other user whose user type is the same as the user type of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Takuo HENMI, Shigefumi IINUMA, Takaaki OKADE
  • Publication number: 20160147873
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing system capable of changing a response to an input from a user based on a predetermined response condition and further making a user terminal to perform a specified behavior (action) in outputting the response. An information providing server selects a reference text semantically closest to the input sentence from a user from knowledge data to determine a response text associated with the reference text. If a plurality of response texts are associated with the reference text, the information providing server determines the response in accordance with the response condition. Furthermore, the information providing server controls the user terminal to perform the behavior registered with the reference text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Takuo HENMI, Shigefumi IINUMA
  • Publication number: 20160148105
    Abstract: Provided is an information providing system for a system administrator not highly skilled in the arts of natural language or artificial intelligence to be able to easily correct or add a response to an input from a user to arrange the response into an appropriate one if the response is not appropriate. When an input sentence does not hit any knowledge data, the system administrator is able to add a combination of the input sentence and a response thereto by opening a new QA quick addition screen from a knowledge maintenance screen by pressing a link of the input sentence. Furthermore, the system administrator is able to easily add the input sentence to knowledge data as a synonymous sentence of a candidate Q, which is determined to be semantically close to the input sentence, by clicking the candidate Q on the knowledge maintenance screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Takuo HENMI, Shigefumi IINUMA