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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:
Apr. 18, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2013
Applicant:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Philippe Di Cristo, Bellevue, WA (US);

Chris Weider, Everett, WA (US);

Robert A. Kennewick, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G06F 17/273 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method are provided for receiving speech and/or non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention provides a conversational human-machine interface that includes a conversational speech analyzer, a general cognitive model, an environmental model, and a personalized cognitive model to determine context, domain knowledge, and invoke prior information to interpret a spoken utterance or a received non-spoken message. The system and method creates, stores, and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech or non-speech communication and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.


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