User context based dynamic service combination system and method

• US 20070136746A1
• Filed: 12/08/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Kyung-Sook, Bae, Jung-Sook, Kim, Jae-Ho, Lee, Sun-Young, Shin, Byoung-Cheol, Lee, Jong-Yun, Yoon, Seong-Im, Shin, Gyung-Chul
• Application Number:
  US11/635,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136746A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44213 Monitoring of end-user related data arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A dynamic service combination system and service provision method using user'"'"'s context information are provided. a service may be dynamically provided and a new service may be combined to be provided to a service user using the user'"'"'s context information. In addition, a new ontology may be configured by finding a new knowledge through AI engine'"'"'s data mining, and thus a success rate of the service provision may be increased, and a dynamic service provision may be achieved.

Claims

1. A context-based service provision system which a service provider'"'"'s service is dynamically provided to a service user based on user context information, the context-based service provision system comprising:

a physical layer sensing context information including service a user'"'"'s information, a preference, a peripheral environment state, a service user'"'"'s body state, and a service context;

a context awareness layer recognizing, storing, and managing the service user'"'"'s context information base on the context information sensed from the physical layer;

a service provisioning layer for estimating and combining a service based on the stored context information of the context awareness layer and a service using history service, providing a service user'"'"'s adaptive service; and

an application layer being connected to the service user and the service provider, and transmitting a service user request information and a service provision information to the service provisioning layer.

2. The context-based service provision system of claim 1, wherein

the service provisioning layer comprises

a lookup service unit for performing a search to a queried service in response to a service provision request of the service user;

a service storing unit storing a plurality of service information therein, and performing a search to the requested service of the lookup service unit;

an event manager for managing the service user'"'"'s using service history information;

a transaction storing unit the service user'"'"'s service history information managed by the event manager;

an artificial intelligence engine unit for finding and outputting a service combination pattern based on the service history information stored at the transaction storing unit;

a service combination unit performing a service combination based on the service combination patterns found from the artificial intelligence engine unit;

a service estimating unit determining whether the searched service of from the service storing unit is adaptive to the service user;

a service practicing unit for displaying a service to a service'"'"' user terminal when the service estimated by the service estimating unit is adaptive to the service user; and

a service agent for managing and registering a service which the service provider provides to the service user.

3. The context-based service provision system of claim 2, wherein

the artificial intelligence engine unit comprises a data mining engine unit for analyzing the service user'"'"'s service using pattern based on the stored service history information of the transaction storing unit, finding a service user'"'"'s service preference based on the analyzed using pattern, and extracting a new service combination pattern;

and

an ontology engine unit for updating the service information by defining and managing a correlation between a basic service and a new service combination pattern based on the extracted new service combination pattern of from the data mining engine unit.

4. The context-based service provision system of claim 1, further comprising a service server for providing the service user'"'"'s user context information, basic service information, and transaction storing information.

5. The context-based service provision system of claim 4, wherein

the user context information includes at least one of a user'"'"'s profile, a user'"'"'s present position or location, such user'"'"'s present state information as a user'"'"' present position peripheral temperature.

6. A context-based service provision method in which a service provision system provides a service of a service provider to a service user based on user'"'"'s context information, the context-based service provision method comprising:

(a) searching a service based on a service query requested by the service user;

(b) analyzing a service using pattern based on a service user'"'"'s using service history information when there is no service to be provided based on the query to the service user; and

(c) gathering a service combination pattern corresponding to the service user based on the analysis, and providing a combined service to the service user after combining a service based on the gathered service combination pattern.

7. The context-based service provision method of claim 6, further comprising, wherein when the service to be provided to the service user has been provided at the step (b),

(i) estimating whether the gathered service is an service user adaptive service based on the search of the service provision system;

and

(ii) providing a service through a service user'"'"'s terminal when the gathered service is an service user adaptive service.

8. The context-based service provision method of claim 7, wherein

the (i) estimating a service includes

(i-1) determining whether the gathered service is in concordance with a query provided on the service user'"'"'s service request;

and

(i-2) determining whether to be a service user-adaptive service based on the service user'"'"'s context information when the gathered service is concordance with the query of the service user.

9. The context-based service provision method of claim 8, further comprising when not satisfying any one of the steps (i-1) and (i-2),

informing it to the service user that there is no service adaptive to the query, and analyzing the service using pattern of the step (b).