US 7,917,367 B2
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCEGeneral
US 7,917,367 B2
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Brian L Albertalli
Art Unit:
2626 Selective Visual Display Systems
Inventors:
Philippe Di Cristo; Min Ke; Robert A. Kennewick; Lynn Elise Armstrong
Assignee:
Priority:
11/12/09
Filed:
11/12/09
Granted:
03/29/11
Expiration:
08/05/25
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention applies context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users presenting questions or commands across multiple domains. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech and non-speech communications and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06F16/3329G06FG10L15/1822G10L