(12) United States Patent Takano et a].

Transcription

1 US B2 (12) United States Patent Takano et a]. (10) Patent N0.: (45) Date of Patent: US 8,566,060 B2 *Oct. 22, 2013 (54) (75) (73) (*) (21) (22) (86) (87) (65) (51) (52) (58) INFORMATION SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREFOR Inventors: Kosuke Takano, KanagaWa (JP); Naofumi Yoshida, KanagaWa (JP); Shuichi Kurabayashi, KanagaWa (JP) Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (U S) Notice: Appl. No.: PCT Filed: PCT No.: 371 (0)0) (2), (4) Date: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 614 days. This patent is subject to a terminal dis claimer. 12/665,107 Mar. 5, 2009 PCT/JP2009/ Apr. 5, 2010 PCT Pub. No.: WO2010/ PCT Pub. Date: Sep. 10, 2010 Prior Publication Data US 2011/ A1 Aug. 4, 2011 Int. Cl. G01L 15/00 G06Q 10/10 G06F 9/46 G06F 3/00 US. Cl. ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) USPC /121; 705/2; 718/106; 719/321 Field of Classi?cation Search USPC /121, 81, 84, 127, , 702/l88il89; 705/243, , 7.15, 705/7.21*7.22, 7.26*7.27;718/102*103, 7l8/l06il07;719/321*322,327 See application?le for complete search history. (56) References Cited JP JP 6,886,045 B1 8,184,170 B2 U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 4/2005 HalasZ et al. 5/2012 Yamaji (Continued) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS /1997 8/2001 (Continued) OTHER PUBLICATIONS International Preliminary Report on Patentability for PCT/JP2009/ dated Oct. 28, US. Of?ce Action on US. Appl. No. 12/665,304 DTD May 9, International Preliminary Report on Patentability for PCT/JP2009/ mailed Oct. 27, (Continued) Primary Examiner * Toan Le (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Foley & Lardner LLP (57) ABSTRACT The information service providing device of the disclosure of the present application selects sensors Which may be used for the implementation of an information service to be provided Within a plurality of sensors Which the device can make use of, and in addition, selects the mo st appropriate one Within the sensors Which may be used and selects an appropriate param eter for the sensors and processing programs in order for the information service to be provided appropriately, and set to these in response to the environment in Which the information service is implemented. Furthermore, the information service providing device of the disclosure of the present application provides, With only the receipt of the designation of desired information service by a user, various information services are provided by appropriately combining various kinds of sensors and a plurality of processing programs. 11 Claims, 21 Drawing Sheets T0148, FROM 1415 T0148, FROM 146, IO/FROM 100 N m an 278 R I _ [ TO/F OM 16

2 US 8,566,060 B2 Page 2 (56) References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 2002/ A1 7/ / A1 1/ / A1 4/ / A1 3/ / A1 1/ / A1 3/ / A1 5/ / A1 12/ / A1 9/ / A1 8/ / A1 9/ / A1 10/ / A1 10/ / A1 10/ / A1 3/ / A1 12/ / A1* 9/ / A1 1/ / A1 2/ / A1 2/ / A1* 9/2011 Buchanan et al. Darby LeDain et al. Ploucha Vassy Nakabayashi et a1. Fukuda et a1. Brown Tatrnan et a1. Alsafadi et al. Kubo et al. Kusaka et al. HalasZ et al. Kii et al. Gao et al. Strandell et al. Takano et al /300 Gross Andretich Fung et al. Takano et al /321 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS JP JP JP JP JP JP JP JP JP JP JP JP W0 W0 03/ W0 WO 2006/ / / /2002 7/2004 2/2005 3/2005 3/2006 9/2006 9/ /2006 5/ /2008 2/2003 2/2006 OTHER PUBLICATIONS International Search Report for PCT/JP2009/ mailed Apr. 28, International Search Report for PCT/ J P2009/ mailed Apr. 28, Decision ofrejection for JP mailed Jun. 4, 2010 (With English translation). Notice of Reasons for Rejection for JP mailed Dec. 1, 2009 (With English translation). Decision ofrejection for JP mailed Jun. 4, 2010 (With English translation). Kurabayashi, Shuichi et al., Active Multidatabase System for Mobile Computing Environment, Information Processing Society of Japan, The Special Interest Group Technical Reports of IPSJ 2000 DBS-122, 2000, 9 pages (With English abstract). Kurabayashi, Shuichi et al., A Multidatabase System Architecture for Integrating Heterogeneous Databases With Meta-Level Active Rule Primitives, Proceedings of the 20th IAS T ED International Con ference on Applied Informatics, 2002, 10 pages. Notice of Reasons for Rejection for JP mailed Dec. 1, 2009 (With English translation). US Notice ofallowance on US. Appl. No. 12/665,304 DTD Sep. 18, US Of?ce Action on US. Appl. No. 12/640,967 DTD Oct. 2, Final Rejection for Japanese Pat. Appln. No , mailed on Sep. 15, 2009, 6 pp. (including English Translation). Notice of Rejection for Japanese Pat. Appln. No , mailed on Apr. 21, 2009, 4 pp. (including English Translation). Notice of Allowance for US. Appl. No. 12/568,188 dated Jan. 4, Shin ya and Takeo, M., A Possibility of Estimation of the Degree of Interest by Eye Movement: Based on the interviews to the specialists of eyeball movement, accessed at , accessed on Jan. 21, 2013, pp. 3 (English Abstract). US Of?ce Action on US. Appl. No. 12/640,967 DTD Jan. 16, * cited by examiner

3 US. Patent 0a. 22, 2013 Sheet 1 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2 O l MOBILE STATION v o. v,, _. I. _ f 102-n M m a. - FIXED TERMINAL USER

4

5 US. Patent 0a. 22, 2013 Sheet 3 or 21 US 8,566,060 B2 TO/FROM 100 FIG M CPU USER OPERATION, ETC. (w an: ~ ~ ~ DISPLAY TO USER, ETC. BUS 154

6 US. Patent 0a. 22, 2013 Sheet 4 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2.97» v.2; E 2;.2: EOEE 02 H T00 8% NNN 8N 6N Ii [J NR EN \, Q M a \,, 2?. gm 2%,. H h \% H 9201,69

7 US. Patent 0a. 22, 2013 Sheet 5 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2 TO 232 o O......,.. C), b.. o v v & m m E. *7 T T F (9 8 o ca o 8....,..,. co m 7 co TO/FROM 16

8

9

10

11 US. Patent Oct. 22, 2013 Sheet 9 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2 FIG. 9 TO/FROM 100 I 222 FIG. 10 TO/FROIVI 100 I 222

12 US. Patent Oct. 22, 2013 Sheet 10 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2 FIG. 11A NEW SERVICE SPECIFIED? Y \ S102 REFER TABLE OF SERVICE DEFINITION S108 EXECUTABLE SERVICE? SELECT N, SENSOR SENSOR WITH PRIORITY. Y v 8110 SELECT SENSOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRIORITIES ' S112 SENSOR OPERATING ORMALLY? " S116 OTHER SENSOR? TERMINATE SERVICE I I, A S1OI1/2I B C D E

13 US. Patent 0a. 22, 2013 Sheet US 8,566,060 B2 FIG. 118 S142 ACOUIRE MODULE, ETC. MODULE, ETC. IS PRESENT? S140 S144 C A D A E A PREPARE SERVICE EXECUTION V PROCESS SERVICE (148) INTERRUPT GENERATED? FLU C W M P R T. m U V EE E OE W8 E SW El, 6N T RR R EO PC M RR EE C? m A? W T A E Y T D W E W G TERMINATE SERVICE SERVICE IN ACTION? S160 S10 2/2

14 US. Patent 0a. 22, 2013 Sheet 12 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2 OH wmm T3... T) 2% 120$ 20% go, _ Ema

15

16

17

18

19

20 US. Patent Oct. 22, 2013 Sheet 18 0f 21 US 8,566,060 B2 FIG. 18A Y v 8102 REFER TABLE OF SERVICE DEFINITION S182 SELECT COMBINATION COMBINATION WITH PRIORITY? Y, S184 SELECT COMBINATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRIORITIES " S186 COMBINATION OPERATING V S116 OTHER COMBINATION? TERMINATE SERVICE I A S18 1/2 v B C D E

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40