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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Vishal Sharma, Los Altos, CA (US);
Elhum Amjadi, Foster City, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Techniques for designing a unified messaging platform that functionally integrates an unlimited number of apps by different developers into a single messaging context, allowing users to seamlessly take advantage of external apps' features from within a messaging session. In an aspect, an assistant interface translates between the custom protocol used by a local messaging app and a universal semantic information interchange language (SIIL). The assistant interface communicates using SIIL with an assistant server, which includes a plurality of plugins each dedicated to an external app or 'service module' that can interact with the messaging app. In an aspect, the assistant server may include a command inference block incorporating adaptive learning techniques to infer user intent from the messaging session. Further aspects include flexible and robust techniques to enable users to share authority to use external apps with other users, and to revoke such authority, during a messaging session.