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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2016
Entefy Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alston Ghafourifar, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Brienne Ghafourifar, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mehdi Ghafourifar, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Entefy Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for improved intelligent personal assistant (IPA) software agents that are configured to interact with various people, service providers, and/or smart devices across multiple connection protocols, communications formats, and communication protocols in a seamless and more accurate fashion. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for an improved Message Understanding Service (MUS) that is able to match generic user commands and queries (i.e., commands and queries that are not explicitly directed to a particular service endpoint or smart device) with the service endpoint(s) that have the greatest confidence level of being able to handle the generic command or query.