Patent ID: 9473445
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An agent server for providing communication between a personified agent and one or more human members participating in a community comprising: a communication unit that communicates With external devices via a communications network; a memory that stores status information received from the external devices; and a controller configured to: collect, in a case where monitoring posts detects that one of the stored keywords has appeared in a member conversation and the detected keyword is associated with each of the member or each combination of the members participating in the conversation, status information, which (i) indicates an event relating to the community and (ii) is designated by being associated with the detected specific keyword; create a character by personifying one of the external devices thereby allowing the members of the community to experience a simulated communication with the external device; and post a message as the character, to the conversation mediation server which conforms to an event that (i) is associated with each of the members or each combination of the members participating in the conversation and (ii) is indicated by the collected status information.