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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2013
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Elizabeth Ann Dykstra-Erickson, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Andrew Mauro, Montréal, CA;
Paweena Attayadmawittaya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aimee Piercy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Susan Dawnstarr Daniel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application, the method comprising activating the task assistant, the activation having an associated visual display. The method in one embodiment includes receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output, wherein the task assistant has a plurality of active states, each of the active states having an associated visual display.