Method and system of providing a personalized performance

• US 8,285,654 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2007
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nathan Bajrach
• Original Assignee: Nathan Bajrach
• Inventors: Bajrach, Nathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Rivas, Omar Fernandez
• Assistant Examiner(s): COUGHLAN, PETER D
• Application Number:
  US12/305,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254836A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,937 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 706/14
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs

Abstract

A computer for use with a system capable of providing a personalized performance of a story having a predefined timeline and a method of operating the system. The method comprises receiving inputs from users; analyzing at least said received inputs in order to recognize actual input components; matching said actual input components to a set of predefined input components; modifying the story timeline in accordance with results of said matching; and generating the performance in accordance with the modified story timeline. The technique may be used, for example, for personalized presentation; message positioning and persuasion application; simulated teacher performance application; performance and business indicators analysis application; simulated tour guide application; simulated hostess application; self-introduction related application; dating services related application; blog service and navigation application; social and networking service application; public relations and promotional services application; entertainment application; medical and health care services application; customer support services application, etc.

Claims

1. A computer for use in a system capable of providing a personalized performance of at least one story having a predefined timeline, the computer comprising;

an input analysis unit operatively coupled to an event details records unit,

said computer is configured to support at least one user interface configured to receive the one or more inputs from one or more users,

said input analysis unit is configured to parse the one or more received user inputs, to recognize one or more components comprised in said inputs, thus giving rise to actual input components, and to match said actual input components to predefined input components, and

said event details records unit is configured to accommodate one or more event detail records comprising at least data related to matching between actual and predefined input components and received from the input analysis unit; and

wherein said computer is further configured to modify the predefined story timeline in accordance with a result of processing said one or more event detail records, to generate a performance in accordance with the modified story timeline; and

to facilitate providing said generated performance via the user interface.

2. The computer of claim 1 wherein the user interface is operatively associated with a communication device having input and output capabilities and capable to communicate with the computer.

3. The computer of claim 1 configured to provide the personalized performance as a service or part thereof provided by a service provider.

4. The computer of claim 1 further comprising a performance interface configured to facilitate an interaction with a service provider.

5. The computer of claim 4 wherein the interaction with a service provider comprises obtaining from the service provider one or more media items, scripts and/or story boards personalized for a certain user and/or user group.

6. The computer of claim 1 further comprising a user database with information related to one or more users and/or users'"'"' group, said information related to at least one subject selected from a group comprising:

general personal information, demographic details, user profile, personal preferences, mood at certain time, attitude at certain time, historical information, statistical information.

7. The computer of claim 6 further configured to analyze inputs received from a certain user in respect to certain timeline, define one or more indicators of user'"'"'s communication style and/or one or more attributes characterizing user'"'"'s personality, and to update the user database accordingly.

8. The computer of claim 6 further configured to modify the predefined timeline for a certain user in accordance with information comprised in the user database and related to said user.

9. The computer of claim 1 further comprising a media library containing one or more media items to be used when generating the performance of the story.

10. The computer of claim 1 further comprising a scripts library containing at least one or more scripts and/or one or more story boards related to one or more episodes of one or more stories.

11. The computer of claim 10 further configured to modify at least one script or story board based on data previously obtained during interacting with one or more users.

12. The computer of claim 1 further comprising a components library comprising a set of predefined input components.

13. The computer of claim 12 further configured to modify the set of predefined input components based on data previously obtained during interacting with one or more users.

14. The computer of claim 1 wherein the event details records further comprise a context information related to a position in the story timeline, media item currently presented to the user and/or currently activated script/story.

15. The computer of claim 1 further comprising a controller unit operatively coupled with the events details records unit and configured to process said events details records and to select one or more actions if a result of said processing matches a predefined criterion.

16. The computer of claim 15 further comprising an output manager configured to communicate with the controller unit and to enable generating the performance in accordance with one or more actions selected by the controller unit and communicated to the output manager.

17. The computer of claim 16 further comprising a counter unit operatively coupled to the output manager and to the event details records unit, and configured to keep counters on the usage of certain media items by the output manager and to provide this data or derivatives thereof to the event details records unit.

18. The computer of claim 16 further comprising a context unit operatively coupled to the output manager and to the event details records unit, and configured to extract context data related to the performance and provide this data or derivatives thereof to the event details records unit.

19. The computer of claim 15, wherein at least one action is selected from a group comprising story timeline related actions, user related actions and operation related actions.

20. The computer of claim 1 wherein the received user'"'"'s inputs comprise at least one input selected from a group comprising:

(a) text input;

(b) audio input;

(c) video input;

(d) speech input;

(e) image input;

(f) information related to predefined elements of the user interface;

(g) mood characteristics;

(h) attitude characteristics.

21. The computer of claim 1 wherein the provided performance comprises at least one output selected from a group comprising:

(a) text output;

(b) audio output;

(c) video output;

(d) speech output;

(e) image output.

22. Use of the computer of claim 1 for at least one application selected from a group comprising:

(a) personalized presentation;

(b) message positioning and persuasion application;

(e) simulated teacher performance application;

(d) performance and business indicators analysis application;

(e) simulated tour guide application;

(f) simulated hostess application;

(g) self-introduction related application;

(h) dating services related application;

(i) blog service and navigation application;

(j) social and networking service application;

(k) public relations and promotional services application;

(l) entertainment application;

(m) medical and health care services application;

(n) customer support services application.

23. A method of operating a computerized system capable of providing a personalized performance of a story having a predefined timeline stored in a memory of a computer, the method comprising:

(a) receiving one or more inputs from one or more users;

(b) using the computer for analyzing at least said received inputs in order to recognize one or more components comprised in said inputs thus giving rise to actual input components;

(c) using the computer for matching said actual input components to a set of predefined input components;

(d) accommodating in the memory of the computer one or more event detail records comprising at least data related to matching between actual and predefined input components;

(e) using the computer for processing said accommodated event detail records

(f) using the computer for modifying the story timeline in accordance with results of said processing; and

(g) using the computer for generating the performance in accordance with the modified story timeline.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the inputs received from one or more users are substantially concurrent.

25. The method of claim 23 wherein the recognition is provided by segmenting the received inputs and matching the resulting segments to one or more predefined potential components, thus giving rise to the actual input components being result of a positive match.

26. The method of claim 25 wherein at least one potential component among the predefined potential components is configured to provide a positive match with two or more segments.

27. The method of claim 23 further comprising

receiving data related to at least one element of the group comprising user profile, operational session and story context, and recording said data in the event details record in appropriate fields;

wherein at least one of said appropriate fields is included in the processing of the event details record.

28. The method of claim 23 wherein processing the accommodated event details detail records further comprises processing data selected from the group comprising:

(a) data related to user inputs and/or derivatives thereof;

(b) user-related information;

(c) context-related data comprising position in the story timeline, media item currently presented to the user and/or currently activated script/story.

29. The method of claim 23 wherein the personalized performance is provided as a service provider'"'"'s service or part thereof.

30. The method of claim 29 wherein the interaction with service provider comprises obtaining from the service provider one or more media items, scripts and/or story boards personalized for a certain user and/or user group.

31. The method of claim 23 further comprising an interaction with a service provider.

32. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

(a) analyzing inputs received from a certain user in respect to certain timeline;

(b) defining one or more indicators of a user'"'"'s communication style and/or one or more attributes characterizing user'"'"'s personality; and

(c) modifying said certain timeline in accordance with results of operation (b).

33. The method of claim 23 further comprising obtaining information related to a certain user and/or user'"'"'s group, said information related to at least one subject selected from a group comprising:

general personal information, demographic details, user profile, personal preferences, mood at certain time, attitude at certain time, historical information, and statistical information, and modifying the timeline for a certain user in accordance with said information.

34. The method of claim 23 further comprising modifying at least one predefined input component based on data previously obtained during interacting with one or more users.

35. The method of claim 23 wherein the received user'"'"'s inputs comprise at least one input selected from a group comprising:

(a) text input;

(b) audio input;

(c) video input;

(d) speech input;

(e) image input;

(f) information related to predefined elements of the user interface;

(g) mood characteristics;

(h) attitude characteristics.

36. The method of claim 23 wherein the provided performance comprises at least one output selected from a group comprising:

(a) text output;

(b) audio output;

(c) video output;

(d) speech output;

(e) image output.

37. Use of the method of claim 23 for at least one application selected from a group comprising:

(a) personalized presentation;

(b) message positioning and persuasion application;

(c) simulated teacher performance application;

(d) performance and business indicators analysis application;

(e) simulated tour guide application;

(f) simulated hostess application;

(g) self-introduction related application;

(h) dating services related application;

(i) blog service and navigation application;

(j) social and networking service application;

(k) public relations and promotional services application;

(l) entertainment application;

(m) medical and health care services application;

(n) customer support services application.

38. The method of claim 23 further comprising recording data related, at least, to user inputs in connection with corresponding context, defining one or more inputs frequently used in respect to a certain context, and configuring a default selection within respective context in accordance with said defined inputs.

39. The method of claim 23 further comprising recording data related, at least, to user inputs in connection with corresponding context, and analyzing said data in order to provide one or more indicators of efficiency of the persuasion during the performance.

40. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps of operating a system capable of a personalized performance of a story having a predefined timeline, the method comprising:

(a) receiving one or more inputs from one or more users;

(b) analyzing at least said received inputs in order to recognize one or more components comprised in said inputs thus giving rise to actual input components;

(c) matching said actual input components to a set of predefined input components;

(d) accommodating one or more event detail records comprising at least data related to matching between actual and predefined input components;

(e) processing said accommodated event detail records;

(f) modifying the story timeline in accordance with results of said processing;

(g) generating the performance in accordance with the modified story timeline.

41. A computer program product comprising a computer usable non-transitory medium having computer readable program code embodied therein of operating a system capable of a personalized performance of a story having a predefined timeline, the computer program product comprising:

(a) computer readable program code for causing the computer to receive one or more inputs from one or more users;

(b) computer readable program code for causing the computer to analyze at least said received inputs in order to recognize one or more components comprised in said inputs thus giving rise to actual input components;

(c) computer readable program code for causing the computer to match said actual input components to a set of predefined input components;

(d) computer readable code for causing the computer to accommodate one or more event detail records comprising at least data related to matching between actual and predefined input components;

(e) computer readable program code for causing the computer to process said accommodated event detail records;

(f) computer readable program code for causing the computer to modify the story timeline in accordance with results of said processing;

(g) computer readable program code for causing the computer to generate the performance in accordance with the modified story timeline.