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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2009
Daniel Coffman, Bethel, CT (US);
Liam D. Comerford, Carmel, NY (US);
Steven Degennaro, Pauling, NY (US);
Edward A. Epstein, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Stephane H. Maes, Danbury, CT (US);
David Nahamoo, White Plains, NY (US);
Daniel Coffman, Bethel, CT (US);
Liam D. Comerford, Carmel, NY (US);
Steven DeGennaro, Pauling, NY (US);
Edward A. Epstein, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Stephane H. Maes, Danbury, CT (US);
David Nahamoo, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for conversational computing includes executing code embodying a conversational virtual machine, registering a plurality of input/output resources with a conversational kernel, providing an interface between a plurality of active applications and the conversational kernel processing input/output data, receiving input queries and input events of a multi-modal dialog across a plurality of user interface modalities of the plurality of active applications, generating output messages and output events of the multi-modal dialog in connection with the plurality of active applications, managing, by the conversational kernel, a context stack associated with the plurality of active applications and the multi-modal dialog to transform the input queries into application calls for the plurality of active applications and convert the output messages into speech, wherein the context stack accumulates a context of each of the plurality of active applications.