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

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a proposal system having a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit to perform a method comprising:
in the first processing circuit,
receiving information related to a printer usage situation;
receiving purchased printer information;
training 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
transmitting at least a portion of the learning model to the second processing circuit; and

in the second processing circuit,
receiving the at least a portion of the learning model from the first processing circuit;
acquiring sales performance information of sales related to a purchased device made on a store;
generating 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;
accepting information that is related to a usage situation of a user printer from a customer;
inferring a purchase target device using the learned model, based on the accepted information that is related to the usage situation of the user printer and the acquired sales performance information; and

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