US Patent Issued to Accenture Global Solutions on Sept. 9 for "Dialog flow inference based on weighted finite state automata" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,571, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Dialog flow inference based on weighted finite state automata" was invented by Javier Miguel Sastre-Martinez (Dublin) and Aisling Nugent (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may receive non-deterministic finite state automata (NFSA) to represent a set of dialog flows associated with a human-machine interface. The system may generate a deterministic finite state automaton (DFSA) that includes a minimum set of states that represents all dialog flows included in the set of dialog flows represented in the NFSA and does ...