Prioritizing Selection Criteria by Automated Assistant

Patent №

US 8,660,849

Granted

2014-02-25

Filed 2012

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13725656

Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. A user request is received, the user request including at least a speech input received from a user. The user request including the speech input is processed to obtain a representation of user intent for identifying items of a selection domain based on at least one selection criterion. A prompt is provided to the user, the prompt presenting two or more properties relevant to items of the selection domain and requesting the user to specify relative importance between the two or more properties. A listing of search results is provided to the user, where the listing of search results has been obtained based on the at least one selection criterion and the relative importance provided by the user.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG10L 15/1815B60K 35/00B60K 35/10B60K 35/22B60K 35/80G06F 3/167G06F 9/54G06F 16/3329+21 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.99
AI hardware0.80
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 300990985

Assignors

GRUBER, THOMAS ROBERT, CHEYER, ADAM JOHN, GUZZONI, DIDIER RENE, BRIGHAM, CHRISTOPHER DEAN, SADDLER, HARRY JOSEPH

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