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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2024
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
James R. Kennedy, Glendale, CA (US);
Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju, Pasadena, CA (US);
Maike Paetzel-Pruesmann, Zurich, CH;
Ronald Cumbal, Stockholm, SE;
Komath Naveen Kumar, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a hardware processor, a memory storing software code, and a machine learning (ML) model trained to detect an interruption to a conversation. The system detects, during a conversational turn by an artificial intelligence (AI) character in interaction with a human and/or another AI character, sound produced by the human and/or the other AI character, classifies, using the ML model, the sound as an interruption or irrelevant to the interaction. When the sound is irrelevant to the interaction, the conversational turn of the AI character continues. When the sound is an interruption, the system identifies a response strategy for continuing the interaction, and executes the response strategy including at least one of: (i) retention of the conversational turn, (ii) relinquishment of the conversational turn, or (iii) a negotiation, with the human and/or the other AI character, to determine the retention or the relinquishment of the conversational turn.