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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Open Invention Network, Llc, Durham, NC (US);
Inventor:
Gerald McCobb, Delray Beach, FL (US);
Assignee:
Open Invention Network, LLC, Durham, unknown;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/54 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01); H04M 3/533 (2006.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/541 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01); H04M 3/5166 (2013.01); H04M 3/5191 (2013.01); G10L 15/265 (2013.01); H04M 3/53333 (2013.01); H04M 2203/2061 (2013.01); H04M 2203/357 (2013.01);
Abstract
A virtual assistant application, system, and service that interacts with a caller over a telephone, cellular, or VoIP network as the called party's representative when the called party is unavailable, providing answers to queries and performing commands that were provisioned by the called party. The application includes a telephony interface, speech recognition and synthesis, a dialog manager, and knowledge domain. The application can also be configured to interact with a sender of SMS, MMS, or IM messages.