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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:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

May. 20, 2019
Applicant:

Vb Assets, Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Larry Baldwin, Maple Valley, WA (US);

Tom Freeman, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Michael Tjalve, Bellevue, WA (US);

Blane Ebersold, Seattle, WA (US);

Chris Weider, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

VB Assets, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 17/22 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 15/1822 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 17/22 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01); G10L 2015/0631 (2013.01); G10L 2015/225 (2013.01); G10L 2015/228 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01);
Abstract

A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and an adaptive response may be generated for the user. Responses may be worded based on the degrees of certainty and to frame an appropriate domain for a subsequent utterance. In one implementation, misrecognitions may be tolerated, and conversational course may be corrected based on subsequent utterances and/or responses.


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