Systems and Methods for Selection-Based Contextual Help Retrieval

Patent №

US 9,811,583

Granted

2017-11-07

Filed 2014

Owner

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION

Lab

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14126967

Described herein are systems and methods for selection-based contextual help retrieval. One example method involves (a) receiving first-query data including contextual data, the contextual data indicating a user-interface element type, a user-interface element location, and user-interface element text; (b) determining at least one first-query response based on at least the contextual data; and (c) causing an indication of the determined at least one first-query response to be provided via an output device.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Planning0.98
Speech0.97
Knowledge representation0.91
Machine learning0.64
Vision0.09
Evolutionary computation0.01

Ownership

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION

assignment · 298000418

Assignors

CHILANA, PARMIT K., KO, ANDREW J., WOBBROCK, JACOB O.

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

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