På stället nedan http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7333967.html Kan vi läsa om en "Method and system for automatic computation creativity and specifically for story generation" som fått USA-patentnummer 7333967 (patentinnehavare Selmer Bringsjord och David Angelo Ferrucci). Patentbeskrivningen börjar: 1. A computer-implemented method of automatically generating a story, comprising: selecting a theme of said story; examining elements of said theme and instantiating said theme; using said theme to select and control other aspects of the story generation, including a plot of said story which employs knowledge-generated characteristics, relationships, and events; inputting said elements of said theme into a stage, said stage being a collection of elements of said story and their interrelationships; and inputting the stage into a simulation engine to play out a series of events over time, thereby to generate a plot, said plot including characters, their characteristics, and their respective interactions, and a history of events and their temporal relationships, said simulation engine including a predetermined randomness such that random elements from said databases are selected. 2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising: developing a scenario, including a plurality of activities, based on said plot generated, such that details of said activities are developed and bridged. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said scenarios are in a formal, logic based language independent of a spoken language, said method further comprising: inputting said scenarios into a natural language generator such that said scenarios are converted from said logic-based language to a natural language, said natural language being a spoken language understandable by a human reader, said conversion from said logic-based language to said natural language influencing at least one of story grammars, literary constraints, words, phrases, and sentence structure used in said scenario. (Men det är säkert i många flal mycket enkalre att helt enkelt *skriva* storyn! ?) --Ahrvid ----- SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistan grundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravewriting.com eller skriva- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe).