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Interactive system and method for offering expert based interactive programs

  • US 5,632,007 A
  • Filed: 09/23/1994
  • Issued: 05/20/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for offering expert based interactive programs to one or more users so that a high level of conversational responsiveness and interactivity is achieved, the method comprising:

  • defining a decision goal for an interactive scenario;

    implementing a set of rules leading to the defined goal, the rules comprising at least one premise and a conclusion whereby the rules are related hierarchically to one another in that a conclusion of at least one of the rules is a premise of another rule;

    forming queries, each query corresponding to a premise which requires a user response to determine the existence of the premise;

    mapping the queries and rules into a plurality of media independent data streams to generate an interactive program, the plurality of data streams containing frames, the frames being time-synchronized between data streams and containing an information portion and a command portion;

    storing the data streams in an interactive storage medium;

    retrieving the plurality of data streams from the interactive storage medium; and

    whereby the retrieved data streams offer the expert based interactive programs to the one or more users.

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