Method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication, and communication system, and information recording medium thereof

• US 6,950,026 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2003
• Issued: 09/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Original Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Inventors: Terada, Kazunori, Fukuhara, Tomohiro, Azechi, Shintaro, Kubota, Hidekazu, Nishida, Toyoaki, Yamashita, Koji, Matsumura, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): Blount, Eric
• Application Number:
  US10/615,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20040160325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/517, 340/518, 340/532, 340/539.32, 340/3.1, 340/3.42, 340/539, 340/3.43, 340/573.4, 600/300, 700/48, 700/16, 700/17, 705/1, 705/2
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The present invention enables appropriate behavior of an individual who has problems with memory, and behavior support thereof with certainty. The individual who has problems with memory always carries the portable communication terminal and loads and collects various types of information along with an ID through the communication network as behavior monitoring information. Also various types of provided information (e.g. map information) are collected. When a specific status information (e.g. forgetting the road to take) of the individual who carries the portable communication terminal is loaded, memory support information (behavior support information) is generated by conversation, text and image, so that the specific status where the individual who lost memory cannot take an action to be performed next can be individually dispelled on the spot based on the information collected in the past and various types of provided information, and this memory support information is transferred to the individual carrying the portable communication terminal. In this way, information for dispelling a specific status where an individual who lost memory cannot take an action to be performed next on the spot can be implemented by inference, personally and instantaneously.

Claims

1. A method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication, to provide information for dispelling a specific status where an individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next, comprising the steps of:

a communication network side equipment collecting daily behavior monitoring information of said individual transferred from a communication terminal via a communication line;

said communication network side equipment loading information on a specific status where the individual who lost personal memory can not take an action to be performed next, which is transferred from said communication terminal, via a communication line; and

said communication network side equipment generating memory support information by one or both of retrieval and inference for dispelling a specific status where the individual who lost personal memory cannot shift to action to be performed, and transferring the memory support information to said communication terminal via a communication line;

wherein when the specific status is not dispelled by the transfer of said memory support information from the communication line network side equipment to the communication terminal and the specific status information is transferred again from the communication terminal to the communication network side equipment, said communication network side equipment transfers at least one of conversation, text and image information to said communication terminal and executes the behavior monitoring again, executes one or both of retrieval and inference again from this information, and generates new memory support information.

2. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein said behavior monitoring information includes current absolute position information of said communication terminal, and is at least one type of communication information of conversation, text, and image in said communication terminal.

3. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein at least one type of information of map, traffic and weather, loaded from an equipment on the communication network, is newly added to said behavior monitoring information.

4. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein said memory support information is at least one type of information of conversation, text and image.

5. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein said behavior monitoring information is corrected by an external terminal.

6. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein during generation of said new memory support information, at least one of map information, traffic information which includes the structure of roads and inside of facilities, and weather information, is loaded from an equipment on the communication network, and new memory support information is generated by one or both of retrieval and inference again.

7. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein said memory support information is generated based on at least one of the following (a), (b) and (c):

(a) level, that is a degree of the problem with memory;

(b) layer, that is a depth of hierarchical explanation of the memory support information with respect to the degree of the problem with memory; and

(c) range, that is a range of memory support information with respect to the degree of the problem with memory.

8. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 7, wherein the memory support information is generated by one or both of retrieval and inference, based on at least one of said level, layer and range, such that when the set stages of said level, layer and range have changed, the stages of said level, layer and range for the individual who carries said communication terminal are automatically changed and set and the memory support information is generated by one or both of the next retrieval and inference based on these new stages of said level, layer and range.

9. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein the information on said specific status is information on a specific status including the length of time for which the absolute position information of the communication terminal does not change, and the specific status is identified by comparing this information on the specific status and a predetermined threshold value.

10. The method for complementing personal lost memory information with communication according to claim 1, wherein the information on said specific status indicates the status of an object left behind by a worsening or interruption of the field strength of the communication line connection status between the communication terminal and a non-contact storage element with no power supply which is attached to the object, and the memory support information is the notification of said object left behind.

11. A memory information complementary communication system for providing information for dispelling a specific status where an individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next, comprising:

a portable communication terminal for transferring personal daily behavior monitoring information. and specific status information where the individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next via a communication line;

a communication network side equipment which collects the behavior monitoring information from said portable communication terminal, receives the information on the specific status where the individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next, which is transferred from said portable communication terminal, via the communication line, generates memory support information to dispel this specific status by one or both of retrieval and inference, and transfers the memory support information to said portable communication terminal via the communication line;

wherein said portable communication terminal or the fixed communication terminal further comprises;

absolute position information detection means for transferring the current absolute position information as the behavior monitoring information;

information transfer means for transferring at least one type of communication information of conversation, text and image; and

wherein said communication network side equipment further comprises a behavior monitoring server, an information behavior support agent server for generating memory support information based on conversation, text and image, and information collection data base means for loading and storing at least one of behavior monitoring information, traffic information and weather information.

12. The memory information complementary communication system according to claim 11, further comprising information providing means for newly adding at least one type of information of map, traffic and weather to said behavior monitoring information, on the communication line network.

13. The memory information complementary communication system according to claim 11, wherein said portable communication terminal further comprises radio communication means for detecting the status of an object left behind by a worsening or interruption of the field strength of the communication line connection status with the non-contact storage element with no power supply, which is attached to an object carried by the individual who carries said portable communication terminal, so that the communication network side equipment generates and transfers memory support information of the object left behind.

14. A memory information complementary communication system for providing information for dispelling a specific status where an individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next, comprising:

a non-contact storage element with no power supply which is attached to the individual;

a plurality of fixed communication terminals which transfers the personal daily behavior monitoring information and information on the specific status where the individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next via a communication line by radio line connection with said non-contact storage element; and

a communication network side equipment, which collects the behavior monitoring information from each one of said plurality of fixed communication terminals, receives the information on the specific status where the individual who lost personal memory cannot take an action to be performed next, which is transferred from said fixed communication terminal, via the communication line, generates memory support information to dispel this specific status by one or both of retrieval and inference, and transfers the memory support information to said fixed communication terminal via the communication line;

wherein said communication network side equipment further comprises a behavior monitoring server, an information behavior support agent server for generating the memory support information by conversation, text and image, and information collection data base means for loading and storing behavior monitoring information, and at least one of map information, traffic information and weather information.