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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. 26, 2010

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2006
Applicants:

Paul M Aoki, Berkeley, CA (US);

Margaret H Szymanski, Santa Clara, CA (US);

James D Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);

Allison G Woodruff, Berkeley, CA (US);

Nicolas B Ducheneaut, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robert J Moore, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Paul M Aoki, Berkeley, CA (US);

Margaret H Szymanski, Santa Clara, CA (US);

James D Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);

Allison G Woodruff, Berkeley, CA (US);

Nicolas B Ducheneaut, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robert J Moore, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The disclosed technology is a computer application that establishes communication between a conversation-finder module and a computer application environment. The conversation-finder module determines a conversational floor based on three or more floor determination inputs. The conversational floor associates at least two of the three or more floor determination inputs as being on the conversational floor. The conversation-finder module and the computer application environment can be responsive to each other and can adapt to each other. That is (either or both), the computer application environment can adapt to the conversational floor(s) determined by the conversation-finder module; and the conversation-finder module can determine the conversational floors responsive to a floor determination input and/or control input from the computer application environment.


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