AUTOMATED NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEM

Patent №

US 5,895,466

Granted

1999-04-20

Filed 1997

Owner

AT&T CORP.

Lab

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08914532

A customer service system includes a natural language device, a remote device remotely coupled to the natural language device over a network and a database coupled to the natural language device. The database has a plurality of answers stored on it that are indexed to natural language keys. The natural language device implements a natural language understanding system. The natural language device receives a natural language question over the network from the remote device. The question is analyzed using the natural language understanding system. Based on the analysis, the database is then queried. An answer to the question is received based on the query, and the answer is provided to the remote device over the network.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/3329G06F 16/3338Y10S 707/99934Y10S 707/99935Y10S 707/99936

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.96
AI hardware0.78
Knowledge representation0.71
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 87750815

Assignors

GOLDBERG, RANDY G., ROSINSKI, RICHARD R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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