Brokerage system and method for joint learning of different languages
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorShinya Arao
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Abstract
An environment enabling members to easily teach each other in order to learn a foreign-language conversation by utilizing the Internet chat service. A member profile server retrievably stores a plurality of member profiles for respective ones of registered members. Each of the member profiles includes at least native language information and interest language information of a corresponding registered member. When a registered member has been logged in, a broker allocates the registered member to a chat corner permitting a predetermined pair of languages that matches a combination of native language information and interest language information of the logged-in registered member.
Claims22
A system comprising:
- a chat server providing chat services;
- a member profile server retrievably storing a plurality of member profiles for respective ones of registered members, each of the member profiles including at least native language information and interest language information of a corresponding registered member;
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- a broker for allocation a registered member who has logged in to a chat corner permitting a predetermined pair of languages that matches a combination of native language information and interest language information of the logged-in registered member.
A brokerage method in a system having a chat server providing chat services, comprising the steps of:
- a) retrievably storing a plurality of member profiles for respective one of registered members in a member profile server, each of the member profiles including at least native language information and interest language information of a corresponding registered member;
- b) when a login request of a registered member occurs, receiving a combination of native language information and interest language information of the logged-in registered member from the member profile server;
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- c) allocating the logged-in registered member to a chat corner permitting a predetermined pair of languages that matches the combination of native language information and interest language information of the logged-in registered member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.