The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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:
Apr. 09, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sergey Zeltyn, Haifa, IL;

Avi Yaeli, Ramot Menashe, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for generating automatically transactional dialog flows for a virtual assistant based on a set of predefined (labeled) transactional flows defining user interaction paths to accomplish one or more tasks. The virtual assistant is represented by a tree structure comprising a plurality of dialog nodes where each transactional flow comprises a respective subset of the nodes descending from a parent node to one or more completion nodes. New transactional flows may be generated automatically based on similarity with the predefined transactional flows, by selecting a candidate node and one of the predefined transactional flows comprising a completion node most similar to the candidate completion node and further selecting a candidate parent node most similar to the parent node of the selected predefined transactional flow. The new transactional flows may be then generated to comprise all descendant nodes of the candidate parent node.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…