Patent Document ID: 9704103
Application ID: 14571472
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising providing affinity therapy through a mobile telephone to improve a diagnosed psychological state of an autistic child, the providing of the affinity therapy comprising through the mobile telephone developing a relationship between the autistic child and a consistently presented animated character portrayed on the mobile telephone, the developing of the relationship comprising facilitating successive spoken conversations and non-spoken interactions through the mobile telephone between the autistic child and the animated character portrayed on the phone, at least some of the successive spoken conversations and the non-spoken interactions being interleaved, the relationship being developed over a time period that spans the successive spoken conversations and non-spoken interactions, the facilitating of a current one of the successive spoken conversations comprising: presenting to the autistic child a segment of speech of the animated character, the speech of the segment conforming to speech qualities that are characteristic of the animated character and are presented consistently with the speech qualities of other speech segments of the current spoken conversation and of others of the successive spoken conversations, the segments of speech comprising segments of morphed versions of human speech of two different humans, detecting a segment of speech of the autistic child, the autistic child's segment of speech and the segment of speech presented to the autistic child comprising a portion of the current spoken conversation, and presenting to the autistic child a subsequent segment of speech of the animated character, the subsequent segment of speech being determined by a choice made by an intelligent agent comprising a human, the choice having been made by the human in response to an automated presentation through a user interface of a list of suggested responses, the list of suggested responses being produced by intelligent processes applied to the detected segment of speech of the autistic child.