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Mohammad Makarechian

Imed Zitouni

Vipul Agarwal

Soumya Batra

Karthik Tangirala

Rahul Kumar Jha

Christopher G Kaler

Erik B Christensen

Kenneth David Wolf

Stephen James Millet

David Wortendyke

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

James Ernest Johnson

Tirunelveli R Vishwanath

Lance Olson

Richard Douglas Hill

Umesh Madan

Stefan R Batres

Michael James Coulson

John David Doty

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Craig Andrew Critchley

Uday Sooryakant Hegde

Vijay Gajjala

Michael Marucheck

Krishnan Srinivasan

Elliot Lee Waingold

Geary L Eppley

Matthew Thomas Tavis

Tomasz Janczuk

Stephen T Swartz

David Edwin Levin

Michael Steven Vernal

Shy Cohen

Max A Feingold

Richard Dievendorff

Douglas M Purdy

Natasha Harish Jethanandani

David Owen Driver

Aaron Stern

Siddhartha Puri

Saurab Nog

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Anastasios Kasiolas

Douglas A Walter

Kapil Gupta

Ryan Thomas Sturgell

Vipul A Modi

Alexander Martin DeJarnatt

Sowmyanarayanan K Srinivasan

Scott Christopher Seely

Jonathan T Wheeler

Evgeny Osovetsky

Yaniv Pessach

Mauro Ottaviani

Erin Honeycutt

Chaitanya Dutt Upadhyay

Michael Thomas Dice

Alfred M Lee, Iv

Eugene Shvets

Yasser Shohoud

Anand Rjagopalan

Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan

Serge Sverdlov

Vaithialingam B Balayogan

A computer-implemented technique is described herein for expediting a user's interaction with a digital assistant. In one implementation, the technique involves receiving a system prompt generated by a digital assistant in response to an input command provided by a user via an input device. The technique then generates a predicted response based on linguistic content of the system prompt, together with contextual features pertaining to a circumstance in which the system prompt was issued. The predicted response corresponds to a prediction of how the user will respond to the system prompt. The technique then selects one or more dialogue actions from a plurality of dialogue actions, based on a confidence value associated with the predicted response. The technique expedites the user's interaction with the digital assistant by reducing the number of system prompts that the user is asked to respond to.

Expediting interaction with a digital assistant by predicting user responses

A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.

Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services

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