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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Rathnakara Malatesha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rathnakara Malatesha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing an interactive command assistant on an interactive whiteboard appliance is provided. A method comprises: generating an interactive command assistant chat window comprising a prompt; receiving a command word; submitting, to an interactive command manager, the command word causing the interactive command manager to identify a tree having the command word as a non-leaf node and including a second response options as child nodes of the non-leaf node; receiving the second response options each comprising an object word corresponding to the command word; displaying, in the interactive command assistant chat window, the second response options; receiving, via the interactive command assistant chat window, a second response option; in response to determining that the combination of the first response option and the second response option represent the complete command, generate an executable command; automatically causing the interactive whiteboard appliance to execute the executable command.