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Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a user

US9213558B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SRI International · US

Inventors

Gokhan Tur · Morristown, US
Horacio E. Franco · Lebanon, US
Elizabeth Shriberg · Berkeley, US
Gregory K. Myers · San Francisco, US
William S. Mark · San Mateo, US
Norman D. Winarsky · Palo Alto, US
Andreas Stolcke · Berkeley, US
Bart Peintner · Palo Alto, US
Michael J. Wolverton · Mountain View, US
Luciana Ferrer · Olavarría, AR
Martin Graciarena · Belmont, US
Harry Bratt · Mountain View, US
Neil Yorke-Smith · Mountain View, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 1, 2010
Grant date	Dec 15, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 29, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06N20/00
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant. One embodiment of a method for conducting an interaction with a human user includes collecting data about the user using a multimodal set of sensors positioned in a vicinity of the user, making a set of inferences about the user in accordance with the data, and tailoring an output to be delivered to the user in accordance with the set of inferences.

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