MULTI-DIRECTIONAL DIALOG

Patent №

US 10,733,982

Granted

2020-08-04

Filed 2018

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15946517

Systems and processes for providing multi-directional dialog are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors, receiving a first natural-language input; determining a first intent based on the first natural-language input, identifying a first dialog flow based on the first intent, outputting a natural-language output associated with the first dialog flow, receiving a second natural-language input; determining whether the second natural-language input satisfies dialog criteria associated with the first dialog flow, and in accordance with a determination that the second natural-language input satisfies the dialog criteria, outputting a second natural-language output associated with the first dialog flow.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationG10L 15/1815G06F 3/167G06F 16/90332G06F 40/30G06F 40/35G06Q 10/00G10L 15/22H04L 51/02+3 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
Machine learning0.77
AI hardware0.36
Planning0.13
Vision0.02
Evolutionary computation0.02

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 464620086

Assignors

GRUPEN, NICHOLAS A., AUSTIN, MATTHEW E., EPHRATI, MONICA S., LEUNG, KENNETH H., WARREN, SEBRAND F., WILLIAMS, PHILIP T., HENDERSON, MATTHEW

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