METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS AND SMART APPLIANCES

• US 20160255186A1
• Filed: 03/19/2015
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Eletrônica da Amazônia Ltda (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Eletrônica da Amazônia Ltda (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: KANEBLAI MARTINS COSTA, GUSTAVO, BARBOSA SILVEIRA, ALEXANDRE, JOSE TOBIAS, RODRIGO, ZILSE PEREIRA BORGES, RENATA, ORTIZ DELVEQUIO FRANCO, VIVIANE, VICTOR MOTTA, PAULO, ROGRIO PIVA, FLVIO, GUSTAVO PELLACANI PETRINI, DANIEL, LOPES RAMOS, THIAGO, KIM, TAEHWAN
• Granted Patent: US 10,003,683 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/18 using natural language modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

The present invention provides a method (200) that allows users (211) of smart appliances to interact in a similar way with objects (202, 207) such as devices, smart appliances, Web services, software applications (THINGS/objects) and people (212) and also the communication of an object (202) with another object (207). The provided method comprises mapping the entire object (207) connected as a contact. These contacts (objects) will act as real instant messaging contacts, receive user commands and entries in a natural language fashion and provide response using the IM interface. Such objects (202, 207) must register as an instant messaging user on a common instant messaging server (210). Furthermore, an application wrapper (208) is also used to map an instant messaging contact and an object allowing an object not supporting this solution to be used by a device implementing the proposed method.

Claims

1. A method for communication between users and smart devices connected to a instant messaging (IM) server in the cloud, wherein people and objects are similarly recorded as contacts in a contacts list of IM, the method characterized by comprising the steps of:

sending data (302) from the requester user (300) to an IM contact (301) of a contact list (320);

checking (303) if the contact is a real person or an object;

if the IM contact (301) is a real person contact, sending the message (302) in natural language data (304) to the destine contact (301);

if the IM contact (301) is an object contact, loading a natural language interface NLI (305) consisting of;

detecting markers and commands (306) of the original message data (302);

analyzing the message context and ontology of the object (307) to identify its purposes;

evaluating (308) the possible object commands, identifying those with most likely intention of the applicant (300);

submitting a command/request (309) to the object (311); and

receiving a response from the object (311) and translating it into a natural language response.

2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the registration of a new IM contact (301) in the IM contact list (320) is made through one of:

Pairing the user device with other devices, smart appliances and sensors that can be registered as a new contact of the contacts list;

access of the user device to a Web service not registered; and

executing a new software application.

3. Method according to claim 2, characterized in that the step of pairing the user device comprises pairing by means of one of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, near field communication (NFC), among others.

4. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the introduction data, message or content is performed using one or more of a human language, speech to text technology and text to speech technology.

5. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the object (311) comprises one or more of devices (103), smart appliances (104), web service (105), software applications (102).

6. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the transmitted data (302) comprise one or more of a digital audio, digital image or video, compressed text, among others.

7. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that a service wrapper (920) is used to establish the connection between an IM server (900) and a web service (911) that does not support/incorporates the proposed method.

8. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that a device wrapper (921) is used to establish the connection between an IM server (900) and an smart appliance (931) that does not support/incorporate the proposed method.