MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT ITEM

• US 20110010673A1
• Filed: 03/12/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TAKEDA, Kentaro
• Granted Patent: US 8,429,172 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/847
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a mobile communication terminal comprises a storage device which stores rule information including at least one pair of condition information and content information, wherein the condition information is composed of a plurality of condition labels, a condition estimator which generates condition estimation data indicating accuracy data regarding a condition of the terminal for each of a plurality of condition labels based on sensed data, wherein the each condition label is fallen into one of a plurality of condition items, a priority decision section which estimates the rule information and determines priority data for the pair, an estimator which generates an estimation value indicating a summation the accuracy data from the condition estimator and the priority data, and a selection section which provides a shortcut button to run a program with a display device based.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a storage device which stores rule information including at least one pair of condition information and content information for selecting a program to be recommended, wherein the condition information is composed of a plurality of condition labels;

a condition estimator which generates condition estimation data indicating accuracy data regarding a condition of the mobile communication terminal for each of a plurality of condition labels based on sensed data, wherein the each condition label is fallen into one of a plurality of condition items;

a priority decision section which estimates the rule information and determines priority data for the pair;

an estimator which generates an estimation value indicating a summation the accuracy data from the condition estimator and the priority data from the priority decision section; and

a selection section which provides a shortcut button to run the program with a display device based on the estimation value and the rule information.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the sensed data includes at least one of time information, place information, and movement information.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein the time information is output from a clock device, the place information is generated by a GPS receiver, and the movement information is generated by an accelerometer.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the selection section selects the shortcut buttons in descending order of the highest estimation value.

5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the selection section selects the shortcut buttons until the number of shortcut buttons reached a predetermined number.

6. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the rule information further includes a basic priority value, and the priority decision section calculates the priority data based on the number of condition labels from the condition item set to the rule information and the basic priority value.

7. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1 further comprising a display device, wherein the selection section displays the selected shortcut buttons on the display device.

8. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

an input section which obtains data provided from a sensor which senses a physical quantity;

a state estimator which produces, as a result of state estimation, a state label certainty degree for a state label indicating a state in which the mobile communication terminal is being put on the basis of the data obtained by the input section, the state label certainty degree indicating a degree of agreement between a state indicated by the state label and the state in which the mobile communication terminal is being put;

a recommend rule database on which a plurality of recommend rules each associating a condition corresponding to the state label and a content piece according to content written as the condition is recorded;

a recommend rule estimator which estimates the recommend rules recorded on the recommend rule database so as to provide a priority of each of the individual recommend rules;

an estimated value operation section which computes an estimated value of one of the recommend rules on the basis of the recommend rule, the result of state estimation and the priority; and

a recommended content choice section which chooses a content piece to be recommended on the basis of the estimated value.

9. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 9, wherein the recommend rule estimator estimates the recommend rule on the basis of specificity of content written as the condition of the recommend rule, the recommend rule estimator performing a process for reducing the priority of the recommend rule of low specificity.

12. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 9, wherein the sensor is one of a GPS receiver, an accelerometer and a clock device.

10. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 10, wherein the recommend rule estimator computes the number of unused state items which is the number of state items which are unused as the condition of the recommend rule, the recommend rule estimator identifying the specificity as being higher as the number of the unused state items increases.

11. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 11, wherein the recommend rule estimator computes the number of OR-relations used in the content written as the condition of the recommend rule for each of the state items, the recommend rule estimator converting a computed result to the number of unused state items.

13. A method for recommending a user a content item by means of a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

storing rule information including at least one pair of condition information and content information for selecting a program to be recommended, wherein the condition information is composed of a plurality of condition labels;

generating condition estimation data indicating accuracy data regarding a condition of the mobile communication terminal for each of a plurality of condition labels based on sensed data, wherein the each condition label is fallen into one of a plurality of condition items;

estimating the rule information and determining priority data for the pair;

generating an estimation value indicating a summation the accuracy data and the priority data; and

providing a shortcut button to run the program with a display device based on the estimation value and the rule information.

14. The method for recommending a user a content item according to claim 14, wherein the sensed data includes at least one of time information, place information, and movement information.

15. The method for recommending a user a content item according to claim 14, wherein the time information is output from a clock device, the place information is generated by a GPS receiver, and the movement information is generated by an accelerometer.

16. The method for recommending a user a content item according to claim 14, wherein the shortcut buttons are selected in descending order of the highest estimation value.

17. The method for recommending a user a content item according to claim 14, wherein the shortcut buttons are selected until the number of shortcut buttons reached a predetermined number.

18. The method for recommending a user a content item according to claim 14, wherein the rule information further includes a basic priority value, and the priority data is calculated based on the number of condition labels from the condition item set to the rule information and the basic priority value.

19. The method for recommending a user a content item according to claim 14, wherein the selected shortcut buttons are displayed on a display device.