ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,408, issued on April 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Streaming real-time dialog management" was invented by David Elson (Port Washington, N.Y.), Christa Wimberley (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Ross (Mountain View, Calif.), David Eisenberg (New York), Sudeep Gandhe (Mountain View, Calif.), Kevin Chavez (Mountain View, Calif.) and Raj Agarwal (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provides for dialog management in real-time rather than turn taking. An example method included generating first candidate responses to triggering event. The triggering event may be receipt of a l...