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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:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sugato Bagchi, White Plains, NY (US);

Kenneth J. Barker, Mahopac, NY (US);

Branimir K. Boguraev, Bedford, NY (US);

Mihaela A. Bornea, White Plains, NY (US);

Adam R. Faulkner, New York, NY (US);

Yanpeng Li, Elmsford, NY (US);

Siddharth A. Patwardhan, Ridgewood, NJ (US);

Sara Rosenthal, Spring Valley, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/24568 (2019.01); G06F 16/283 (2019.01);
Abstract

Provided herein are techniques for processing a context-situated inquiry to provide results satisfying the inquiry. An inquiry and its supporting context are processed using natural language processing to determine an interpretation for the inquiry and context, and the interpretation is presented to receive corrective information for the interpretation. The corrective information is applied to the interpretation and content is retrieved based on the interpretation of inquiry and context to produce candidate results for the inquiry. Supplemental information is iteratively received to generate updated candidate results.


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