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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:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2021
Applicant:

Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);

Inventors:

Ghodratollah Aalipour Hafshejani, San Jose, CA (US);

Arpit Sharma, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Sahana Radhakrishna, San Bruno, CA (US);

Haoxuan Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);

Tanmay Peter Kuruvilla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Phani Ram Sayapaneni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kotlasanthos Kumar, San Bruno, CA (US);

Assignee:

Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06F 40/279 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 40/279 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06Q 30/0613 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for providing an automated assistant that retrieves information from a knowledge base in response to a user's natural language communications. A refinement signal based on a subsequent user communication relevant to a previous search, establishes the type of search to be performed by the automated assistant in generating a response to the user communications. A reply communication to the user includes the selected results from search type selected. The types of searches are SPECIFIC, RELATIVE and NEGATION searches.


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