Intelligent internet system with adaptive user interface providing one-step access to knowledge

Abstract

An Intelligent Internet system having the capacity to discover, acquire, organize, store, and make accessible knowledge about things of interest to users and to help users more efficiently interact with these things in a rich variety of ways. The Intelligent Internet system provides users with a personalized interface that dynamically adapts to each user's interests and context. This interface provides users with direct access to “knowledge” about things that humans or machines can uniquely sense, recognize, name, understand and interact with, whether real or imagined. Users can access the knowledge stored in the Intelligent Internet system to find, learn about and select products and services; communicate with family, friends, colleagues, classmates, customers and suppliers; learn about things they encounter in their environment, make decisions about them, consume and share content related to them and perform transactions.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 212,654, entitled INTELLIGENT INTERNET SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE PROVIDING ONE-STEP ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE, filed Mar. 14, 2014, which claims benefit to U.S. provisional patent application No. 61 / 800,302, entitled INTELLIGENT INTERNET SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE PROVIDING ONE-STEP ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE, filed on Mar. 15, 2013. The entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The disclosed embodiments relate generally to digital assistants, and more specifically to digital assistants that intelligently provide assistance to help users learn about and interact with things.BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY[0003]All human activities involve interacting with “entities,” i.e., things real and imagined in our internal and external environments. Examples of entities include: people, places, organizations,...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The patent describes a new system called the Intelligent Internet that can directly acquire knowledge about human behaviors and how to interact with entities. It does not rely on complex junction points between user interface, applications, and operating system, and it provides a simplified way for users to learn about updates and communicate messages of all types. The system has the capacity to organize and store knowledge about entities and make it easily available to users. Overall, the Intelligent Internet system simplifies interactions with entities and helps users to efficiently disambiguate among them.

Problems solved by technology

Today's Internet has two major deficiencies: 1) it lacks an innate ability to acquire and apply knowledge about the entities it connects, and 2) it does not allow users to connect directly to and interact with the vast majority of entities currently lacking assigned IP addresses, for example: people, places, events and other things the human brain is able to recognize, understand and interact with.

These deficiencies currently lack a commercially viable solution.

However, the Web only understands “files” while the human brain understands “things,” i.e. entities.

Both the Internet and the Web speak languages difficult for the human brain to decipher.

The Web places upon its users the burden of making sense of the files with which it is capable of connecting.

The Web has a number of other important deficiencies related to control and risk.

Users who click on or touch a hyperlinked object typically have little idea where they may be taken, and indeed may end up accessing dangerous files.

However, the Semantic Web has its own major deficiencies, including: 1) most importantly, like the Internet and World Wide Web, it lacks an innate capacity to acquire and apply knowledge; 2) it is designed to enable computers to understand its content, not humans; and 3) it stores only a few simple types of the knowledge that we humans consider useful or even essential for interacting with things of interest to us in our environment.

Entities can be difficult for both humans and machines to recognize and disambiguate.

A major challenge in recognizing and disambiguating among entities is the fact that a specific entity may be represented by differing “symbolic objects.” These symbolic objects appear everywhere in our environment: on display screens of devices, in things we see with our eyes or hear with our ears.

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