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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Devin Samuel Jacob Caplow-Munro, Seattle, WA (US);
Amit Kaistha, Coppell, TX (US);
Denys V Yaremenko, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brett Andrew Tomky, Seattle, WA (US);
Charbel Khawand, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andrew James Hillenius, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for user intent evaluation includes receiving recorded speech of a human user. One or more attention indicators are detected in an image of the human user. Using a trained command recognition model, a command confidence is estimated indicating a confidence that the recorded human speech includes a command for a smart assistant computing system. Based at least in part on detecting the one or more attention indicators, and the command confidence exceeding a command confidence threshold, the human user is classified as intending to interact with the smart assistant computing system.