SYSTEM FOR RESOLVING AMBIGUOUS QUERIES BASED ON USER CONTEXT

Patent №

US 9,286,910

Granted

2016-03-15

Filed 2014

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14208700

A system for resolving a user's question regarding media at the user's location where the question includes ambiguity as to the context of the question. Context information is acquired from a device or devices at the user's location, and if multiple possible contexts are identified, the system may attempt to resolve the question for more than one of the possible contexts. The system for answering questions and the source of the media may be different and independent.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Speech0.99
Machine learning0.94
AI hardware0.15
Vision0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 337670696

Assignors

LI, MENG, REYNOLDS, DUNCAN JOSEPH, TUNSTALL-PEDOE, WILLIAM, HOLMES, PETRA ELISABETH, STACEY, ROBERT PETER, PALFREY, DAVID SPIKE, FENN, ANDREW GRAHAM, RAFN, MARK, FRENCH, GRAHAM JOHN

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

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