Agent architecture for determining meanings of natural language utterances

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8731929
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12365516

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Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.

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  • NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Freeman, Tom Mercer Island, US 34 10336
Kennewick, Richard Woodinville, US 16 8869
Kennewick, Robert A Seattle, US 37 18856
Kennewick,, Jr Michael R Bellevue, US 14 5485
Kennewick,, Sr Michael R Bellevue, US 20 5314
Locke, David Redmond, US 30 7533

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