Patents by Inventor Kimiyoshi Yoshida
Kimiyoshi Yoshida 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).
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Patent number: 7877513Abstract: A server computer stores user favorites information that relates to the favorites of a user. Whether digital information that has newly occurred on a network suits the favorites of the user is judged based on the user favorites information. If it is judged that there exists digital information that suits the favorites of the user, the server computer informs the user of the new establishment of the digital information that suits the favorites of the user by transmitting E-mail to the user. When a browsing request of the digital information is made by the user, the server computer delivers the digital information to the user and stores history information relating to a history of the digital information that has been delivered to the user. Thereafter, the server computer updates the user favorites information based on the history information.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fumihiko Nishio, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7765311Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7761582Abstract: A method of managing personal information of a user wherein personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests personal information of the user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information on its own.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7516225Abstract: Upon receiving a request for preparing a recommended CD list in Step S71, the experience/preference information providing server stores the member ID of the user requested a recommended CD list as remarkable member in Step S72. Then, in Step S73, the experience/preference information providing server extracts members having a taste similar to that of the remarkable member as taste sharing members (members who like CDs (music) similar to those the remarkable member likes). In Step S74, the experience/preference information providing server prepare a synthetic experience/preference list by collecting experience/preference element data of the taste sharing members. In Step S75, the experience/preference information providing server 14 prepares a recommended experience (CD) list best adapted to the user from the synthetic experience/preference list and transmits it to the terminal unit of the remarkable member.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7412648Abstract: A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on the basis of answers on daily items of the user, typical situation dependent keyword(s) of the user in one or more individual typical situations previously prepared is(are) created in accordance with the degree of typical liking tendency of the user and typical situation dependent keyword(s) is(are) revised in accordance with the habitual situation characteristics of the user, so that keyword(s) according to the actual situation of the user can be created.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kimiyoshi Yoshida, Yasushi Takahashi, Yoshihito Fujiwara
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Patent number: 7373589Abstract: A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on the basis of answers on daily items of the user, typical situation dependent keyword(s) of the user in one or more individual typical situations previously prepared is (are) created in accordance with the degree of typical liking tendency of the user and typical situation dependent keyword(s) is (are) revised in accordance with the habitual situation characteristics of the user, so that keyword(s) according to the actual situation of the user can be created.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kimiyoshi Yoshida, Yasushi Takahashi, Yoshihito Fujiwara
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Patent number: 7343616Abstract: Based on a user's own basic selection tastes, the priority order of the information is determined, so that an information retrieval method and the apparatus which can retrieve the information desired by the user easily among from a huge amount of programs can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1998Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasushi Takahashi, Yoshihito Fujiwara, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20080016231Abstract: A method of managing personal information of a user wherein personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information on its own.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7284063Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the terminal device to enter the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information from a proxy device to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the terminal device to input the personal information on its own.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2003Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 7117518Abstract: In an information retrieval method and apparatus, a specific user model is formed for a specific user based at least upon the specific user's own selection data. A plurality of specific user models formed for respective users are registered, and a group user model is formed on the basis of the plurality of specific user models. Information is subsequently retrieved based on the group user model. The group user model may be formed by selecting a maximum, minimum or average value of the plurality of specific user models.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1998Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasushi Takahashi, Yoshihito Fujiwara, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20060095508Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20060026266Abstract: A server computer stores user favorites information that relates to the favorites of a user. Whether digital information that has newly occurred on a network suits the favorites of the user is judged based on the user favorites information. If it is judged that there exists digital information that suits the favorites of the user, the server computer informs the user of the new establishment of the digital information that suits the favorites of the user by transmitting E-mail to the user. When a browsing request of the digital information is made by the user, the server computer delivers the digital information to the user and stores history information relating to a history of the digital information that has been delivered to the user. Thereafter, the server computer updates the user favorites information based on the history information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Inventors: Fumihiko Nishio, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20050165769Abstract: A keyword creation method and its apparatus to simply create keywords in user's retrieving a desired item of information from a vast amount of information. The habitual situation characteristics and the degree of typical liking tendency of a user are calculated on the basis of answers on daily items of the user, typical situation dependent keyword(s) of the user in one or more individual typical situations previously prepared is(are) created in accordance with the degree of typical liking tendency of the user and typical situation dependent keyword(s) is(are) revised in accordance with the habitual situation characteristics of the user, so that keyword(s) according to the actual situation of the user can be created.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Kimiyoshi Yoshida, Yasushi Takahashi, Yoshihito Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20050021729Abstract: Upon receiving a request for preparing a recommended CD list in Step S71, the experience/preference information providing server stores the member ID of the user requested a recommended CD list as remarkable member in Step S72. Then, in Step S73, the experience/preference information providing server extracts members having a taste similar to that of the remarkable member as taste sharing members (members who like CDs (music) similar to those the remarkable member likes). In Step S74, the experience/preference information providing server prepare a synthetic experience/preference list by collecting experience/preference element data of the taste sharing members. In Step S75, the experience/preference information providing server 14 prepares a recommended experience (CD) list best adapted to the user from the synthetic experience/preference list and transmits it to the terminal unit of the remarkable member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventor: Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 6842752Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is pre-stored in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 6782409Abstract: Upon receiving a request for preparing a recommended CD list in Step S71, the experience/sympathy information providing server stores the member ID of the user requested a recommended CD list as remarkable member in Step S72. Then, in Step S73, the experience/sympathy information providing server extracts members having a taste similar to that of the remarkable member as sympathizers (members who like CDs (music) similar to those the remarkable member likes). In Step S74, the experience/sympathy information providing server prepare a synthetic experience/sympathy list by collecting experience/sympathy element data of the sympathizers. In Step S75; the experience/sympathy information providing server 14 prepares a recommended experience (CD) list best adapted to the user from the synthetic experience/sympathy list and transmits it to the terminal unit of the remarkable member.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20040078473Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the terminal device to enter the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information from a proxy device to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the terminal device to input the personal information on its own. This holds true the a personal computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 6651090Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is pre-stored in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2000Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20030195972Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is stored beforehand in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the terminal device to enter the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information from a proxy device to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the terminal device to input the personal information on its own. This holds true the a personal computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Inventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 6601092Abstract: Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is pre-stored in a user profile database of a server. When the user accesses a service provider device from a terminal device through the server and the Internet, the service provider device requests the personal information of that user. The server reads the requested personal information from the user profile database and transfers the personal information to the service provider device. This novel arrangement makes it unnecessary for the user to input the personal information.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Itabashi, Kimiyoshi Yoshida