Method and apparatus for providing active help to a user of a voice-enabled application

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6560576
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09557988

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A voice-enabled application, which may be a voice browser, is configured to provide active help to a user. The application maintains a usage history of each user with respect to dialog states. The usage history includes various user-specific variables, some of which are valid across multiple sessions. The application maintains a number of active help prompts capable of being played to a user as speech, each containing information on a different, specific help topic. The application further maintains a number of sets of conditions, each set corresponding to a different one of the active help prompts. The application monitors dialog states during a session of a user and generates an event based on the dialog states. The application applies certain ones of the conditions to certain ones of the user-specific variables in response to the event. The application then plays a active help prompt containing information on a specific help topic to the user if the applied conditions are satisfied.

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NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS1380 WILLOW ROAD MENLO PARK CA 94025

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Balogh, Jennifer E Fremont, CA 2 269
Cohen, Michael H Burlingame, CA 43 3173
Ghosh, Debajit Sunnyvale, CA 25 2406
Thirumalai, Madhavan S Palo Alto, CA 1 198
Wax, Tracy D Brisbane, CA 2 284

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