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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:
Oct. 20, 2009

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2005
Applicants:

William D. Ramsey, Redmond, WA (US);

Jonas Barklund, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sanjeev Katariya, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

William D. Ramsey, Redmond, WA (US);

Jonas Barklund, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sanjeev Katariya, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for performing natural language processing in which natural language input is mapped to a task. The system includes a task interface for defining a task, the associated data and the manner in which the task data is interpreted. Furthermore, the system provides a framework that manages the tasks to facilitate natural language processing. The task interface and framework can be used to provide natural language processing capabilities to third party applications. Additionally, the task framework can learn or be trained based upon feedback received from the third party applications.


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