US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on May 27 for "Interaction assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,678, issued on May 27, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Interaction assistance device" was invented by Hiroki Asai (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Hisashi Kurasawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yoshinori Isoda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interaction assistance device 10 is configured to: calculate a first use degree representing a degree to which a function is used in accordance with the user speech in a first period for each function by referring to an interaction history DB (10a) storing an interaction history for each user including information representing a function corresponding to the user speech i...