METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC SENDING OF E-MAIL AND AUTOMATIC SENDING CONTROL PROGRAM SUPPLYING MEDIUM

Patent №

US 6,760,751

Granted

2004-07-06

Filed 1997

Owner

SONY CORPORATION

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08992770

An E-mail can be sent easily with an animated representation as if a pet were going in and out on a GUI picture simulating the inside of a room for dispatching or delivering a mail. In addition, the user can send an E-mail with a friendly feeling for an agent. By sending agent data updated responsive to experiences of an electronic pet as annexed papers to the E-mail, the animation as if an electronic pet were going in and out on a GUI picture simulating the inside of a room for dispatching or delivering a mail is displayed. The behaviour of the pet displayed by animation is varied depending on the keeping environment. The electronic pet selects an illustrative sentence in keeping with the agent data from pre-set illustrative sentences for voluntarily sending the sentence as an E-mail to a user who is a keeper or to a counterpart of past mailing of the user.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning0.60
Knowledge representation0.08
Speech0.04
Vision0.01
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

SONY CORPORATION

assignment · 92320620

SO-NET ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION

namechg · 187720611

Assignors

HACHIYA, KAZUHIKO, KITAMURA, MICHIO, KOKI, TAKASHI, OTAKI, NAMIE

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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