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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2003
Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Ossining, NY (US);
Jan Sedivy, Prague, CZ;
Stephane H. Maes, Fremont, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing conversational computing in a distributed multi-modal environment and in particular, systems and methods for enabling a user to conversationally communicate with entities in a distributed network using a portable access device, wherein interaction dialog for communicating with entities in the network is described in a manner that is independent of, e.g., user language, access channel(s), I/O modalities of the access device, and regional/international settings, and wherein the user access device and/or a remote server comprise mechanisms for adapting the interaction dialog based on the user language, user preferences, access device characteristics and or regional/international settings, to thereby enable the user to interact with one or more entities in the network.