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AssigneeU.S. Phi,ips Corporation
InventorJudith F. M. Masthoff
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A user of a system comprising a large set of information items, for example a multimedia database, is assisted by an agent in searching the set. The agent has a given affinity for the information items and selects a specific information item from the set in conformity with said affinity. On the basis of the interactions between the user and the system an image is formed of the affinity of the user for the information items. The agent utilizes this image, in addition to its own affinity, for the selection of a specific information item. A major application of the invention concerns a system in which the information items are presented as objects in a space and in which the agent guides the user through the space and proposes a specific object to the user.
A method enabling a user to fetch a specific information item from a set of information items in an information processing system in which each information item has one or more item attributes, the system comprising a first agent for evaluating the item attributes associated with the information items, thus forming an agent affinity between the first agent and each of the information items evaluated, the method comprising:
A computer method for selecting at least one specific information item from amongst a set of information items, each item having one or more attributes, the method comprising executing the following steps in a digital data processing device:
An information processing system comprising:
A digital data processing device for selecting at least one specific information item, the device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.