Google Inc.

Ernest Galbrun

Marcin M Nowak-Przygodzki

Matthew Stokes

Mugurel-Ionut Andreica

Andre Elisseeff

Dana Ritter

Torsten Marek

Lukasz Suder

João Paulo Pagaime Da Silva

Mathias Carlen

Gökhan Hasan Bakir

Gökhan Bakir

Marius Dumitran

Implementations are described herein for analyzing existing interactive web sites to facilitate automatic engagement with those web sites, e.g., by automated assistants or via other user interfaces, with minimal effort from the hosts of those websites. For example, in various implementations, techniques described herein may be used to extract, validate, maintain, generalize, extend and/or distribute individual actions and 'traces' of actions that are useable to navigate through various interactive websites. Additionally, techniques are described herein for leveraging these actions and/or traces to automate aspects of interaction with a third party website. For example, in some implementations, techniques described herein may enable users to engage with an automated assistant (via a spoken or typed dialog session) to interact with the third party website without requiring the user to visually interact with the third party web site directly and without requiring the third party to implement their own third party agent.

Analyzing web pages to facilitate automatic navigation

Implementations are described herein for analyzing existing interactive web sites to facilitate automatic engagement with those web sites, e.g., by automated assistants or via other user interfaces, with minimal effort from the hosts of those websites. For example, in various implementations, techniques described herein may be used to abstract, validate, maintain, generalize, extend and/or distribute individual actions and 'traces' of actions that are useable to navigate through various interactive websites. Additionally, techniques are described herein for leveraging these actions and/or traces to automate aspects of interaction with a third party website. For example, in some implementations, techniques described herein may enable users to engage with an automated assistant (via a spoken or typed dialog session) to interact with the third party web site without requiring the user to visually interact with the third party web site directly and without requiring the third party to implement their own third party agent.

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Ernest Galbrun