SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING VIRTUAL AGENTS IN AN INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE APPLICATION

Patent №

US 7,933,399

Granted

2011-04-26

Filed 2005

Owner

SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11086796

The present disclosure provides a system and method configured to establish a connection with a party at an interactive voice response (IVR) system and provide a plurality of virtual agents associated with virtual departments based on a current stage within the process. A caller or party can be prompted with a first virtual agent when addressing content related to a first virtual department and prompted by a second virtual agent when addressing content related to a second virtual department.

Natural languageSpeechPlanningH04M 3/493H04M 2201/40H04M 2203/2061

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.42
Evolutionary computation0.20
AI hardware0.11
Knowledge representation0.03
Vision0.00

Ownership

SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.

assignment · 161700553

Assignors

KNOTT, BENJAMIN ANTHONY, KORTUM, PHILIP TED

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

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