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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Thomas Robert Gruber, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Christopher Dean Brigham, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel S. Keen, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin S. Phipps, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Robert Gruber, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Christopher Dean Brigham, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel S. Keen, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin S. Phipps, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.