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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Dorrene Brown, Redmond, WA (US);
David Brett, Seattle, WA (US);
Adarsh Sridhar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Yujia Liu, Zibo, CN;
Eugeniya Salatovka, Redmond, WA (US);
James Francis Gilsinan, IV, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/60 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 8/76 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 8/76 (2013.01); G06F 11/36 (2013.01); G06F 11/3604 (2013.01); G06F 11/3668 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure help improve virtual assistant systems by providing dynamic, customizable deployment groups for virtual assistant software features. Users, such as software developers, can deploy and remove software packages from different groups, and precisely define the members in any number of different deployment groups that can access the deployed virtual assistant software.