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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Donald Brinkman, Seattle, WA (US);
Dustin Abramson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oussama Elachqar, Seattle, WA (US);
Hailong Mu, Redmond, WA (US);
Maria Alexandropoulou, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms for discovering, synthesizing, presenting and interacting with multiple chat bots. A broker system can interact with a user and receive a query which is passed to a search engine. The search results are evaluated for bots provided by domains. The query can be submitted to the discovered bots. For domains that do not provide a bot, a bot can be synthesized if desired and the query submitted to the synthesized bots. Answers from the bots are retrieved. Answer are directly presented for bots that are directly surfaced to the user in the search results page. Answers can be fused for bots that are not directly surfaced to the user and presented via a broker bot. Answers from the one bot can be fed to other bots so that the bots can participate in a group chat between bots and the user.