Balanced Routing of Questions to Experts

Patent №

US 8,751,559

Granted

2014-06-10

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12211113

A question processing system routes questions among participants in a balanced and sustainable manner. Any participant can act as an inquirer (who poses questions) and an expert (who answers questions). In one illustrative case, the question processing system operates by: receiving a question from an inquirer; determining at least one expert that is appropriate to answer the question; and routing the question to the expert. The receiving, determining, and routing are repeated with respect to other inquirers and other experts to achieve a desired balance of information exchange among the plurality of participants of the electronic question processing system.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning0.55
AI hardware0.34
Speech0.12
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 215400866

Assignors

RICHARDSON, MATTHEW, WHITE, RYEN W., BRILL, ERIC D.

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

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