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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Vipul Agarwal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rahul Kumar Jha, Redmond, WA (US);
Soumya Batra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Karthik Tangirala, Redmond, WA (US);
Mohammad Makarechian, Seattle, WA (US);
Imed Zitouni, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for expediting a user's interaction with a digital assistant. In one implementation, the technique involves receiving a system prompt generated by a digital assistant in response to an input command provided by a user via an input device. The technique then generates a predicted response based on linguistic content of the system prompt, together with contextual features pertaining to a circumstance in which the system prompt was issued. The predicted response corresponds to a prediction of how the user will respond to the system prompt. The technique then selects one or more dialogue actions from a plurality of dialogue actions, based on a confidence value associated with the predicted response. The technique expedites the user's interaction with the digital assistant by reducing the number of system prompts that the user is asked to respond to.