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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2017
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Shane J. Landry, Woodinville, WA (US);

Anne K. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Lisa J. Stifelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Adam D. Elman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Larry Paul Heck, Los Altos, CA (US);

Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 17/27 (2013.01); G06F 17/279 (2013.01); G06F 17/2775 (2013.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described herein that are capable of suggesting intent frame(s) for user request(s). For instance, the intent frame(s) may be suggested to elicit a request from a user. An intent frame is a natural language phrase (e.g., a sentence) that includes at least one carrier phrase and at least one slot. A slot in an intent frame is a placeholder that is identified as being replaceable by one or more words that identify an entity and/or an action to indicate an intent of the user. A carrier phrase in an intent frame includes one or more words that suggest a type of entity and/or action that is to be identified by the one or more words that may replace the corresponding slot. In accordance with these techniques, the intent frame(s) are suggested in response to determining that natural language functionality of a processing system is activated.


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