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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Applicant:
Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Emery, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Lavanya Colinjivadi Viswanathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Media Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2020.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04M 3/493 (2006.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/3346 (2019.01); H04L 51/02 (2013.01); H04M 3/4936 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present teaching relates to facilitating a user-machine conversation. In one example, a query is obtained from a user. The query is directed to a first conversational bot. A reply in response to the query is obtained from the first conversational bot. A degree of validity of the reply is determined based on the reply and the query. A second conversational bot is determined based on the query and the degree of validity. The conversation is directed to the second conversational bot with the query.