USER-CENTRIC PLATFORM FOR DYNAMIC MIXED-INITIATIVE INTERACTION THROUGH COOPERATIVE MULTI-AGENT COMMUNITY

• US 20130338919A1
• Filed: 11/30/2012
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Appy Risk Technologies Limited (Trak Global Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc. (Trak Global Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Basir, Otman A.
• Application Number:
  US13/690,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20130338919A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/537
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A user-centric vehicle platform may include an in-vehicle device. A user portal remote from the in-vehicle device provides a plurality of user agents communicating with the in-vehicle device.

Claims

1. A user-centric vehicle platform:

an in-vehicle device; and

a user portal remote from the in-vehicle device, the user portal providing a plurality of user agents communicating with the in-vehicle device.

2. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein the plurality of user agents are user-customizable.

3. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein the plurality of user agents act on behalf of the user.

4. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein the plurality of user agents are configured to communicate with user agents of another user.

5. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein the in-vehicle device communicates with a mobile communication device of the user.

6. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein at least one of the user agents receives location information indicating a current location of the in-vehicle device and wherein the at least one user agent acts based upon the location information.

7. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of user agents receives presence information indicating a presence of the user in the vehicle and acts based upon the presence information.

8. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein one of the plurality of user agents is a navigation agent, one of the user agents is a shopping agent and one of the user agents is a traffic agent.

9. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein one of the plurality of user agents is an internet radio agent.

10. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein one of the plurality of user agents is a music agent.

11. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein the platform prioritizes and queues communications from the plurality of user agents to the user relative to one another.

12. The user-centric vehicle platform of claim 1 wherein the plurality of user agents monitor a human-machine interface and execute actions based upon triggers in the human-machine interface.

13. A method for providing user-centric interaction:

receiving customization of a plurality of user agents at a computer remote from a user; and

the plurality of agents acting on behalf of the user on the computer remote from the user.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein at least one of the plurality of user agents is configured to communicate with a user agent of another user, wherein the user agent of the another user is also at the computer which is also remote from the another user.

15. The method of claim 13 further including the step of the plurality of user agents receiving information from a mobile communication device of the user.

16. The method of claim 13 further including the steps of at least one of the plurality of user agents receiving location information indicating a current location of the user and the at least one of the plurality of user agents acting based upon the location information.

17. The method claim 13 further including the steps of at least one of the plurality of user agents receiving presence information indicating a presence of the user in a vehicle and acting based upon the presence information.

18. The method of claim 13 further including the steps of:

one of the plurality of user agents providing a navigation route to the user, one of the plurality of user agents shopping for the user and one of the plurality of user agents monitoring traffic for the user.

19. The method of claim 13 further including the step of one of the plurality of user agents monitoring internet radio for the user.

20. The method of claim 13 further including the step of one of the plurality of user agents selecting music for the user.

21. The method of claim 13 further including the step of prioritizing and queuing communications from the plurality of user agents to the user relative to one another.

22. The method of claim 13 further including the steps of the plurality of user agents monitoring a human-machine interface and executing actions based upon triggers in the human-machine interface.