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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:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2010
Applicants:

Gokhan Tur, Fremont, CA (US);

Horacio E. Franco, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Elizabeth Shriberg, Berkeley, CA (US);

Gregory K. Myers, San Francisco, CA (US);

William S. Mark, San Mateo, CA (US);

Norman D. Winarsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andreas Stolcke, Berkeley, CA (US);

Bart Peintner, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Michael J. Wolverton, Mountain View, CA (US);

Luciana Ferrer, Caba, AR;

Martin Graciarena, Belmont, CA (US);

Harry Bratt, Mountain View, CA (US);

Neil Yorke-smith, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gokhan Tur, Fremont, CA (US);

Horacio E. Franco, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Elizabeth Shriberg, Berkeley, CA (US);

Gregory K. Myers, San Francisco, CA (US);

William S. Mark, San Mateo, CA (US);

Norman D. Winarsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andreas Stolcke, Berkeley, CA (US);

Bart Peintner, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Michael J. Wolverton, Mountain View, CA (US);

Luciana Ferrer, Caba, AR;

Martin Graciarena, Belmont, CA (US);

Harry Bratt, Mountain View, CA (US);

Neil Yorke-Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

SRI INTERNATIONAL, Menlo Parka, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4446 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant. One embodiment of a method for conducting an interaction with a human user includes collecting data about the user using a multimodal set of sensors positioned in a vicinity of the user, making a set of inferences about the user in accordance with the data, and tailoring an output to be delivered to the user in accordance with the set of inferences.


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