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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Adam Cheyer, Oakland, CA (US);

Didier Rene Guzzoni, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); G09B 23/28 (2006.01); G06N 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/022 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06N 5/02 (2013.01); G06N 7/005 (2013.01); G09B 21/00 (2013.01); G09B 23/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. Embodiments of the present invention rely on the concept of 'active ontologies' (e.g., execution environments constructed in an ontology-like manner) to build and run applications for use by intelligent automated assistants. In one specific embodiment, a method for building an automated assistant includes interfacing a service-oriented architecture that includes a plurality of remote services to an active ontology, where the active ontology includes at least one active processing element that models a domain. At least one of the remote services is then registered for use in the domain.


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