Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Amy Kathleen Karlson

Lisa Joy Stifelman

John Charles Krumm

Jaime Brooks Teevan

Shahriyar J Amini

Stuart Schechter

Stephen Edward Hodges

James William Scott

Joseph Spencer King

Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Ratul Mahajan

Carman G Neustaedter

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Stephen G Latta

Anoop Gupta

Lili Cheng

Kevin Geisner

Susan Theresa Dumais

David Bargeron

Owen Charles Braun

Vivek Pradeep

Shane Jeremy Landry

Adina Magdalena Trufinescu

Dragos A Manolescu

Rebecca Ann Norlander

Emily Grace Sappington

Jeffrey Spencer Davison

Simon Christer Muzio

Kevin J Endres

John Oberon

Sara Nopwan Siritaratiwat

Annie Lenore Smith

Alex David Daley

Nissanka Arachige Bodhi Priyantha

Paramvir Bahl

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer

Karin Strauss

Scott Field

Mary P Czerwinski

Sharad Agarwal

Daniel Chaim Robbins

Bongshin Lee

Cormac E Herley

Brian R Meyers

Stefan Saroiu

Ashok Kuppusamy

Aleksandar Uzelac

Sergio Paolantonio

Andrew W Jacobs

Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien

Oriana Riva

Seung Yang

Hisami Suzuki

T Scott Saponas

Vishwac Sena Kannan

Ryan Edward Gregg

Jason C Mayans

Daniel J Hwang

Marc A Smith

Oliver Scholz

Kori Marie Quinn

Yaser Khan

Jenny Kam

Arindam Chatterjee

Paul Johns

Sarah Siritaratiwat

Andrew John Sullivan

Dennis Mooney, Ii

Jen Anderson

James Francis Gilsinan, Iv

Mouni Reddy

Kimberly Eleanor Tee

Robert Juan Miller

Tulasi Menon

Henricus (Erik) Johannes Maria Meijer

Karl Rolando Henderson, Jr

Shanna Xiao Chen

Eric Neal Loewenthal

Shawn Lee Morrissey

Eiji Hayashi

Junius A Gunaratne

Kelvin K Tam

Aleksandr A Milanin

Stefan Valianu

Jason Wiese

Suheyla E B Onalan

Urmila Singhal

Colin Kimm Dixon

Connie Missimer

Jean Ku

Aaron W H Con

Andrea Elaina Grimes

Nikhil Rajkumar Jain

Hanjiang Zhou

Dennis James Ii Mooney

Stuart Edward Schechter

Stephen Hodges

James Scott

Systems and methods are provided for a calendar consultation with a user. The disclosed technology uses at least a personal profile or a personal scheduling model and identifies issues in scheduled calendar events associated with the user. Based on a number of the identified issues, a calendar consultant informs the user about the identified issues and prompts the user whether to interactively resolve the issues through a calendar consultation session. During the calendar consultation session, the calendar consultant interactively informs about issues, suggests options for resolving the issues, confirms an option to perform, and updates the calendar schedule. The calendar consultant proactively suggests the user to participate in interactive calendar consultation sessions and improves productivity of the user performing tasks.

Calendar consultation dialogue processor

A method includes receiving one or more search terms at a mobile computing device while the mobile computing device is located at a particular location. A search query that includes the one or more search terms and a location history of the mobile computing device is transmitted to a server. The method also includes receiving one or more search results in response to the search query, where the one or more search results include content identified based on a predicted destination of the mobile computing device. An interface identifying the one or more search results is displayed at the mobile computing device.

Mobile search based on predicted location

Systems and methods include activation of a first voice assistant application to execute a first user dialog session, the first application associated with a first voice keyword and, while the first application is active and executing the first session, reception of second audio signals representing a second voice keyword associated with a second voice assistant application, determination, in response to reception of the second audio signals, that the first application is uninterruptable, wherein the second application remains inactive in response to reception of the second audio signals, reception of a signal from the first application indicating that the first application is interruptable, reception of third audio signals representing the second keyword and, in response to reception of the third audio signals, determination that the first application is interruptable and transmission of an activation signal to the second application to activate the second application and execute a second user dialog session.

Activation management for multiple voice assistants

A primary virtual assistant and local virtual assistant herein can provide secondary information, including, without limitation, user-specific information, without having direct access to such information. For example, a user may invoke a secondary virtual assistant, through the local virtual assistant connected to a primary virtual assistant system. This invocation may be sent through the primary virtual assistant to the third party provider, i.e., the secondary virtual assistant. The secondary virtual assistant has access to the secondary information, for example, email, calendars, other types of information specifically associated with the user or learned from past user actions while this information is not directly available to the primary virtual assistant. This secondary information is then provided to the local virtual assistant in response to the invocation to be provided to the user.

Personalized updates upon invocation of a service

A system and method include detection of a user utterance of one of plurality of voice keywords, each of the plurality of voice keywords associated with a respective voice assistant application, determination, in response to the detection of the one of the plurality of respective voice keywords, of whether any of the plurality of voice assistant applications are designated as uninterruptable, and, if it is determined that none of the plurality of voice assistant applications are designated as uninterruptable, activation of the one of the plurality of voice assistant applications associated with the detected keyword.

Providing a random factoid in response to a user trigger is provided. Aspects are directed to a device, method, and computer-readable medium to provide random factoids responsive to a triggering event. Various inputs such as user taps, gestures, voice commands, environment commands, etc., are monitored to recognize a triggering event associated with the random factoid system. Upon determining that the input is a triggering event, a random factoid is randomly selected and provided to the user. The factoid can be a fun fact or a helpful learning tip. In some examples, the random factoid system provides a contextual random factoid based one or more contextual factors, such as geographic location of the device, the user's interaction history, the user's demographic data, etc., thus providing an improved user experience.

Random factoid generation

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

An electronic device in a topology of interconnected electronic devices can listen for a wake phrase and voice commands. The device can control when and how it responds so that a single device responds to voice commands. Per-task device preferences can be stored for a user. If a preferred device is not available, the task can still be performed on a device that has appropriate capabilities. Machine learning can determine a user's preferences. Power conservation and effective user interaction can result.

Device arbitration for listening devices

Systems and methods that regulate range of access to personal information of a mobile unit's owner. The access control component can designate granularity for access levels and/or a spectrum of access modes&#x2014;(as opposed to a binary choice of full access or no access at all). Such access can be based on a spectrum and/or discrete trust relationship between the owner and user of the mobile unit. A profile definition component can exploit an owner's trust relationships to designate levels of security. The profile definition component can further define a profile based on a set of applications, such as entertainment mode, browser mode, and the like.

Owner privacy in a shared mobile device

Techniques for implementing an integrative interactive space are described. In implementations, video cameras that are positioned to capture video at different locations are synchronized such that aspects of the different locations can be used to generate an integrated interactive space. The integrated interactive space can enable users at the different locations to interact, such as via video interaction, audio interaction, and so on. In at least some embodiments, techniques can be implemented to adjust an image of a participant during a video session such that the participant appears to maintain eye contact with other video session participants at other locations. Techniques can also be implemented to provide a virtual shared space that can enable users to interact with the space, and can also enable users to interact with one another and/or objects that are displayed in the virtual shared space.

Integrated interactive space

Securely joining a secure wireless communications network is described, for example, where a printer or other device is securely added to a home wireless network. In various embodiments, a temporary wireless network is established between a new joiner device and a second wireless communications device which is already a member of a secure home wireless network. In an example, the temporary wireless network is set up using a secret key known to the new joiner device and the second wireless communications device by virtue of physical proximity. In various examples, the secure, temporary wireless network is used to transfer credentials of the secure home network to the new joiner device which then joins the home network. In an example the temporary wireless network is cancelled once the new joiner device becomes a member of the secure home (or other) wireless network.

Securely joining a secure wireless communications network

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush