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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2011
Viswanath Vadlamani, Sammamish, WA (US);
Arungunram Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Prasanth Pulavarthi, Redmond, WA (US);
Phani Vaddadi, Issaquah, WA (US);
Munirathnam Srikanth, Redmond, WA (US);
Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Viswanath Vadlamani, Sammamish, WA (US);
Arungunram Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Prasanth Pulavarthi, Redmond, WA (US);
Phani Vaddadi, Issaquah, WA (US);
Munirathnam Srikanth, Redmond, WA (US);
Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A procedural inference system is described herein that infers procedural knowledge from various data sources to help a user complete one or more tasks for which the data sources provide information. The system understands users' queries, identifies a task at hand, provides recommendations on the steps to take and the agents to use based on a knowledge base of tasks and agents, and provides the fabric to determine which different agents can work together to help the user accomplish a task. Tasks can be started on one device and completed on another seamlessly. Users are able to finish complex, multi-step tasks efficiently, without trial and error or data reentry. Thus, the procedural inference system provides a generalized framework that helps users to complete tasks using already available data and does not ask each data provider to invest in infrastructure to build dedicated task information systems.