FAQ LINK CREATION BETWEEN USER'S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Patent №

US 6,028,601

Granted

2000-02-22

Filed 1997

Owner

APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08829862

A user enters input, or a question in natural language form, and information is retrieved. A questions database is coupled to the input interface and contains questions which are comparable to the input and which the source retrieves in response to an input. An information source is coupled to the input interface and contains information which is relevant to retrieved questions. A searcher is coupled to the input interface for searching the information source for information which is relevant to the input. Information is ranked according to the entered query. A user's question is stored and linked to answers in the questions database. Users may add and link new questions which are not already stored in the questions database.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningG06F 40/30G06F 16/334G06F 16/3344G06F 40/211Y10S 707/99934Y10S 707/99935Y10S 715/968

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Speech1.00
Vision0.02
AI hardware0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

assignment · 85060557

Assignors

MACHIRAJU, NAGABHUSHAN RAO, GRAVES, MICHAEL JAMES, VEMURI, SUNIL, CHANDHOK, RAVINDER PAUL, LOFGREN, CATHERINE ABBOTT

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

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