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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2024
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Severin Achill Klingler, Stettlen, CH;
Razvan Dinu, Voluntari, RO;
Pascal Joël Bérard, Zürich, CH;
Christian Eduard Schüller, Frauenfeld, CH;
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In various examples, an interactive agent platform that hosts development and/or deployment of an interactive agent such as a digital avatar may employ backchanneling to provide feedback to the user while the user is talking or doing something detectable. For example, backchanneling may be implemented by triggering interactive agent postures (e.g., based on whether the user or the avatar is speaking, or based on the interactive agent waiting for a response from the user), short vocal bursts like 'yes', “aha”, or “hmm” while the user is talking (e.g., signaling to the user that the interactive agent is listening), gestures (e.g., shaking the interactive's agent's head), and/or otherwise. As such, a designer may specify various backchanneling techniques that make conversations with an interactive agent feel more natural.