Patent ID: 11961134
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A proposal system, comprising:
a first processing circuit including at least one processor; and at least one memory; and
a second processing circuit including at least one processor and at least one memory,
the at least one memory of the first processing circuit storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor of the first processing circuit, cause the first processing circuit to:
receive information related to a printer usage situation;
receive purchased printer information;
train a learning model using supervised data and at least the information related to a printer usage situation and the purchased printer information as learning data; and
transmit at least a portion of the learning model to the second processing circuit; and

the at least one memory of the second processing circuit storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor of the second processing circuit, cause the second processing circuit to
receive the at least a portion of the learning model from the first processing circuit;
acquire sales performance information of sales related to a purchased device made on a store;
generate a learned model using the at least a portion of the learning model, wherein the learned model is generated using at least training data corresponding to a trend of a product and wherein the learned model has a smaller size than the learning model;
accept information that is related to a usage situation of a user printer from a customer;
infer a purchase target device using the learned model, based on the information that is related to the usage situation of the user printer that was accepted from the customer and the sales performance information that was acquired; and
output as proposal information a result of the inference,

wherein
the output proposal information preferentially outputs the result of the inference regarding a printer whose manufacturer is the same as that of a printer which was previously used by the customer.