Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Christopher Michael Whitten

Marieke Watson Iwema

Vishwac Sena Kannan

Sangwoo Han

Benjamin Abraham Russell Brown

Andrew Stephen Brown

Yochay Kiriaty

John Anthony Taylor

Christopher Lee Mullins

Steven Wayne Ickman

Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell

Scott Jeff Gellock

Thomas Matthew Laird-Mcconnell

A visual bot designer displays a user interface that has a visual authoring canvas and a property pane. It can also have a serialized file display pane. A user can provide authoring inputs on any of the user interfaces, and the visual bot designer computing system generates and displays updates on the other parts of the user interface.

Visual design of a conversational bot

The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to generate and present a chat bot diagnostic visualization that provides real-time visual insights into operation of a chat bot for debugging assistance. A chat bot diagnostic tool is programmed to launch a graphical user interface that displays a visual representation of diagnostic data for debugging a chat bot in real-time. To enable conversational specific data to be reviewed, the present disclosure is configured to implement a middleware adapter within in a run-time stack of a chat bot that is configured to trace data traffic between a chat bot and a channel of an application/service. This enables the chat bot diagnostic tool to observe data traffic and filter the data traffic to identify relevant data for debugging a chat bot. A debugging data visualization of a chat bot interaction is emulated through a graphical user interface of the chat bot diagnostic tool.

Chat bot diagnostic visualization

A chatbot designer user interface (UI) has a visual authoring canvas that shows visual elements indicative of a logical flow of processing in a chatbot application. The designer UI receives an authoring input identifying a language processing system that is to be used during runtime. The chatbot application is configured to use the identified language processing system.

Configuring a chatbot with remote language processing

A visual trigger node, indicative of a trigger, is displayed on a first display portion. A trigger configuration user interface is also displayed. A property input, indicative of a property that activates the trigger, is detected and code is generated to map the trigger to the property.

Visual trigger configuration of a conversational bot

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Christopher Michael Whitten