Title:
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SERVICE RETRIEVAL
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3842768
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily retrieve the optimum device for a request from devices in which various kinds of functions (services) and various states are thought according to various kinds of requests from each device.
SOLUTION: A request description describing contents and conditions of a service requested is received from a first device which is one of a plurality of devices, an assembly of words coincident with or similar to a word indicating the contents of the service described in the request description is obtained, and a first service description indicating a service function by using a single word within the assembly of words is retrieved from a plurality of service descriptions. A condition similarity degree which is a similarity degree between a meaning of an expression described in the condition of the first service description and a meaning of an expression described in the condition of the request description is calculated, and a respective priority degree of the first service description is calculated based on the similarity degree between the service function described in the respective first service descriptions and the service contents described in the request description and the condition similarity degree.
Inventors:
Takahiro Kawamura
Tetsuo Hasegawa
Akihiko Osuka
Tetsuo Hasegawa
Akihiko Osuka
Application Number:
JP2003301267A
Publication Date:
November 08, 2006
Filing Date:
August 26, 2003
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Toshiba Corporation
International Classes:
H04L12/28; G06F7/00; G06F17/30; G06Q10/00; G06Q50/00; H04L12/24; (IPC1-7): H04L12/28; G06F17/60
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Kurata Masatoshi
Sadao Muramatsu
Ryo Hashimoto
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Kurata Masatoshi
Sadao Muramatsu
Ryo Hashimoto