Maluuba Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Research in Motion Corporation

James Simpson

Sam Pasupalak

Kaheer Suleman

Andrew James McNamara

Wilson Hsu

Joshua R Pantony

Zhiyuan Wu

Phil Tregenza

Tareq Ismail

Jeffrey Charles Bos

Ilan Gabriel Caron

Raphael Renous

Yifat Peled

Mohamed Musbah

Jennifer Lee

A method, system, and computer program product provide a conversation agent to process natural language queries expressed by a user and perform commands according to the derived intention of the user. A natural language processing (NLP) engine derives intent using conditional random fields to identify a domain and at least one task embodied in the query. The NLP may further identify one or more subdomains, and one or more entities related to the identified command. A template system creates a data structure for information relevant to the derived intent and passes a template to a services manager for interfacing with one or more services capable of accomplishing the task. A dialogue manager may elicit more entities from the user if required by the services manager and otherwise engage in conversation with the user. In one embodiment, the conversational agent allows a user to engage in multiple conversations simultaneously.

Conversational agent

A method, system, and computer program product provide a conversation agent to process natural language queries expressed by a user and perform commands according to the derived intention of the user. A natural language processing (NLP) engine derives intent using conditional random fields to identify a domain and at least one task embodied in the query. The NLP may further identify one or more subdomains, and one or more entities related to the identified command. A template system creates a data structure for information relevant to the derived intent and passes a template to a services manager for interfacing with one or more services capable of accomplishing the task. A dialog manager may elicit more entities from the user if required by the services manager and otherwise engage in conversation with the user. In one embodiment, the conversational agent allows a user to engage in multiple conversations simultaneously.

A system, method and computer program for performing voice commands on a mobile device and presenting the results on an interactive timeline is disclosed. A user may utter a voice command into the microphone of their mobile device while an application is running. The voice command is processed to derive the intention of the user, specifically by determining the domain, at least one task and at least one parameter for the task from the voice command. A services component performs the task identified and presents the results on the mobile device screen. In various embodiments, the results are presented on a timeline and may be grouped together by domains and sorted by the time that the results were obtained. A search history view may also be viewed that includes search results sorted chronologically each of which is represented graphically by an icon that represents the category of each search. When a user utters a voice command, the text representation is displayed together with an edit button, a resay button, and a progress bar. A user may modify the text representation at any time while the natural language processing is being performed.

Interactive user interface for an intelligent assistant

A slot mechanism for an electronic device is adapted to receive a card therein. The slot mechanism includes a slot disposed within the electronic device. A pivotally moveable tab is spring biased to protrude within an interior of the slot. A spring biased card release mechanism includes a first arm disposed within the interior of the slot and a second arm disposed exterior to the slot. The second arm is configured to prevent movement of the pivotally moveable tab by the card when the card is inserted in an incorrect orientation, thereby preventing complete insertion of the card. The first arm is configured to allow movement of the pivotally moveable tab by the card when the card is inserted in a correct orientation, thereby allowing complete insertion of the card.

Mechanism for facilitating correct card insertion in electronic devices

Automatic message-based module invocation within a transactional message system is described. The modules can be software components, executable program files, etc. In one embodiment, a system includes one or more queues, a trigger store, and a trigger service. Each queue is capable of receiving messages. The trigger store includes one or more triggers, where each trigger is associated with a queue, and has associated therewith one or more rules, where each rule has a condition and an action. The trigger service is designed to, upon receipt of a message in a queue, check the condition of each rule of each trigger associated with the queue, to determine if the message satisfies the rule's condition. If such satisfaction occurs, then the action of the rule is performed, which can include invocation of a module. The rules may be short-circuit rules, non-destructive rules, and/or destructive rules, and may be checked in either a concurrent or serial manner.

Automatic message-based module invocation

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