Net communication system

• US 20020112018A1
• Filed: 12/28/2001
• Published: 08/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kaminagayoshi, Takehiro
• Application Number:
  US10/033,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20020112018A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8058 Virtual breeding, e.g. tamagotchi
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

In the net communication system, a system server device brings in a user of a pet whose taste and/or character corresponds with taste and/or character of the other user automatically, in such a way that a pet that becomes a double of one'"'"'s own is made to pasture at a pet ranch formed within the system server device when he/she feels like pasturing. For this reason, it is possible to establish communications to the other user while making a search for the other user without having need of troublesome labor hour.

Claims

1. An information processing equipment comprising:

information extracting means for extracting user'"'"'s information from inputted sentence information, the user'"'"'s information including a string based on which at least character or taste can be inferred from; and

information processing means for forming an object corresponding to the user'"'"'s information extracted by the information extracting means,

wherein information processing means forms the object so as to have a shape representing at least character or taste which is inferred from the string extracted by the information extracting means.

2. A method of information processing comprising:

a step of extracting user'"'"'s information from inputted sentence information, the user'"'"'s information including a string based on which at least character or taste can be inferred from; and

a step of forming an object corresponding to the user'"'"'s information extracted in the extracting step,

wherein the forming step further comprises a step of forming the object so as to have a shape representing at least the character or the taste which is inferred from the string extracted in the extracting step.

3. The method of information processing according to claim 2, further comprising:

a step of forming at least writing in diary style based on the inputted sentence information.

4. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein an information processing program to be executed on a computer, the information processing program comprising the steps of:

extracting user'"'"'s information from inputted sentence information, the user'"'"'s information including a string based on which at least character or taste can be inferred from; and

forming the object so as to have a shape representing at least the character or the taste which is inferred from the string extracted in the extracting step.

5. An information processing program to be executed on a computer, comprising the steps of:

extracting user'"'"'s information from inputted sentence information, the user'"'"'s information including a string based on which at least character or taste can be inferred from; and

forming the object so as to have a shape representing at least the character or the taste which is inferred from the string extracted in the extracting step.

6. An information processing equipment, comprising:

storing means for storing therein a plurality of user'"'"'s objects which are respectively provided with user'"'"'s information added;

detecting means for detecting objects whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other by executing collating processing of the user'"'"'s information of respective objects stored in the storing means; and

transmitting means for transmitting information concerning collating result to respective users of the object detected by the detecting means.

7. A method of information processing, comprising:

a step of storing a plurality of user'"'"'s objects which are respectively provided with user'"'"'s information added;

a step of detecting objects whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other by executing collating processing of the user'"'"'s information of respective objects stored in the storing step; and

a step of transmitting information concerning collating result to respective users of the object detected in the detecting step.

8. The method of information processing according to claim 7, wherein the user'"'"'s information is formed from information indicating at least character or taste.

9. The method of information processing according to claim 7, wherein

the user'"'"'s information is formed from sentence information, and

the collating processing comprises a step of extracting strings of the sentence information to respectively execute collating processing of the user'"'"'s information of respective objects based on the strings thus extracted.

10. The method of information processing according to claim 7, further comprising:

a step of executing communication processing which makes it possible to perform at least chat between the respective users by connecting communication lines between the respective users to which the collating result is transmitted.

11. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein an information processing program to be executed on a computer, the information processing program comprising:

a step of storing a plurality of user'"'"'s objects which are respectively provided with user'"'"'s information added;

a step of detecting objects whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other by executing collating processing of the user'"'"'s information of the respective objects stored in the storing step; and

a step of transmitting information concerning collating result to respective users of the object detected in the detecting step.

14. The network communication system according to claim 13, wherein the user'"'"'s information is formed from information indicating at least character or taste of each user.

15. The net communication system according to claim 13, wherein

the user'"'"'s information input to the user'"'"'s terminal device is formed from sentence information,

the information extracting means extracts strings indicating at least character or taste of the user from the sentence information, and

the object forming means forms objects corresponding to at least character or taste of the user based on the strings extracted by the information extracting means.

16. The net communication system according to claim 15, wherein the sentence information input to the user'"'"'s terminal device is formed from sentence information of electronic mails of respective users.

17. The net communication system according to claim 13, further comprising:

communication control means for making it possible to perform at least chat between the respective users by connecting communication lines between the respective users to which the collating result is transmitted.

12. An information processing program to be executed on a computer, comprising:

a step of storing a plurality of user'"'"'s objects which are respectively provided with user'"'"'s information added;

a step of detecting objects whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other by executing collating processing of the user'"'"'s information of the respective objects stored in the storing step; and

a step of transmitting information concerning collating result to each user of the object detected in the detecting step.

13. A network communication system comprising:

a plurality of user'"'"'s terminal devices which are provided with information extracting means for extracting user'"'"'s information from input information, object forming means of forming an object corresponding to the user'"'"'s information extracted by the information extracting means, and communicating means, which is connected with predetermined network, for adding the user'"'"'s information to the formed object and transmitting the object to which the user'"'"'s information is added via the network; and

an information processing equipment which is provided with storing means for storing the object transmitted via the predetermined network by the communicating means of the terminal devices and the user'"'"'s information added to the objects, detecting means for detecting the object whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other by executing collating processing of the user'"'"'s information of each object stored in the storing means, and transmitting means for transmitting the information concerning collating result via the predetermined network to the terminal device of respective users of the object detected by the detecting means.

18. A method of net communication comprising:

in a terminal device,

a step of extracting information based on which at least character or taste of the user can be inferred from input user'"'"'s information;

a step of forming objects corresponding to the information thus extracted; and

a step of adding the user'"'"'s information to the object and transmitting the object to which the user'"'"'s information is added via predetermined network, and

in an information processing equipment connected to the net communication,

a step of executing collating processing between respective user'"'"'s information of respective objects transmitted from the respective terminal devices via predetermined network;

a step of detecting objects whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other; and

a step of transmitting information concerning collating result to the terminal device of respective users of the object thus detected via the predetermined network.

19. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein a net communication program to be executed on a computer, the net communication program comprising:

an information processing program at terminal device side to be executed on the terminal device, the information processing program at the terminal device side, including;

a step of extracting user'"'"'s information from input information;

a step of forming an object corresponding to the user'"'"'s information extracted in the extracting step; and

a step of adding the user'"'"'s information to the formed object and transmitting the object to which the user'"'"'s information is added via predetermined network, and

an information processing program at information processing equipment side to be executed on the information processing equipment connected to the network, the information processing program at the information processing equipment, including;

a step of detecting objects whose information of the users are identical with each other or close to each other by executing collating processing of the objects transmitted from the each terminal device via the predetermined network and the user'"'"'s information added to the objects; and

a step of transmitting information concerning collating result via the predetermined network to the terminal devices of respective users of the objects detected in the detecting step.