US 11,734,288 B2
Information providing method
Hiroshi Yahata, Osaka (JP); Takahiro Nishi, Nara (JP); Tadamasa Toma, Osaka (JP); Toshiyasu Sugio, Osaka (JP); Christopher John Wright, London (GB); Bernadette Elliott Bowman, London (GB); and David Michael Duffy, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Mar. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/693,474.
Application 17/693,474 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/029916, filed on Aug. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-106432 (JP), filed on Jun. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0197919 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G06Q 50/12 (2012.01)
CPC G06F 16/24578 (2019.01) [G01N 33/0001 (2013.01); G06Q 50/12 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing information in an information management system that is used to provide a dish search screen, the method comprising:
providing, on the dish search screen as one of a plurality of search filters, one search filter for filtering dishes or restaurants based on rating results of the dishes or restaurants rated by a second user who has a sense-of-taste characteristic similar to a sense-of-taste characteristic of a first user;
obtaining first data indicating an input value in a measurement test regarding sense of taste of the first user from a first communication terminal through a network, wherein the measurement test regarding the sense of taste is used for measuring taste sensitivity of the first user;
obtaining second data indicating an input value in a measurement test regarding sense of taste of the second user from a second communication terminal through the network;
obtaining rating information indicating the second user's rating of a dish or a restaurant from the second communication terminal, wherein the rating information indicating the second user's rating of the dish or the restaurant is managed as the second user's rating result of the dish or the restaurant;
generating a first evaluation value of the first user's sense of taste in association with the first user, based on the first data;
generating a second evaluation value of the second user's sense of taste in association with the second user, based on the second data; and
filtering the dishes or the restaurants based on the second user's rating result when a first difference between the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value is in a first predetermined range in a case in which the first user uses the search filter to filter the dishes or the restaurants.