Inventor · Santa Cruz, CA, US

Thomas R. Gruber

91Patents
33h-index
63Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 12, 2001 → Mar 3, 2025

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9318108B2 Intelligent automated assistant Physics 589 Active
US8660849B2 Prioritizing selection criteria by automated assistant Physics 562 Active
US8670979B2 Active input elicitation by intelligent automated assistant Physics 452 Active
US8903716B2 Personalized vocabulary for digital assistant Physics 445 Active
US8706503B2 Intent deduction based on previous user interactions with voice assistant Physics 429 Active
US8930191B2 Paraphrasing of user requests and results by automated digital assistant Physics 411 Active
US8892446B2 Service orchestration for intelligent automated assistant Physics 403 Active
US9117447B2 Using event alert text as input to an automated assistant Physics 387 Active
US9548050B2 Intelligent automated assistant Physics 384 Active
US8731942B2 Maintaining context information between user interactions with a voice assistant Physics 337 Active
US8799000B2 Disambiguation based on active input elicitation by intelligent automated assistant Physics 332 Active
US9858925B2 Using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant Physics 312 Active
US10199051B2 Voice trigger for a digital assistant Physics 258 Active
US9495129B2 Device, method, and user interface for voice-activated navigation and browsing of a document Physics 250 Active
US9966065B2 Multi-command single utterance input method Electricity 221 Active
US10276170B2 Intelligent automated assistant Physics 211 Active
US9922642B2 Training an at least partial voice command system Physics 195 Active
US10169329B2 Exemplar-based natural language processing Physics 187 Active
US10417037B2 Systems and methods for integrating third party services with a digital assistant Electricity 182 Active
US10297253B2 Application integration with a digital assistant Physics 169 Active
US10185542B2 Device, method, and graphical user interface for enabling conversation persistence across two or more instances of a digital assistant Physics 156 Active
US9280610B2 Crowd sourcing information to fulfill user requests Physics 148 Active
US10497365B2 Multi-command single utterance input method Electricity 143 Active
US10748546B2 Digital assistant services based on device capabilities Physics 135 Active
US10706841B2 Task flow identification based on user intent Physics 107 Active

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