ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,429, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Specifying preferred information sources to an assistant" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to interactions between a user and an automated assistant during a dialog between the user and the automated assistant. Some implementations relate to processing received user request input to determine that it is of a particular type that is associated with a source parameter rule and, in response, causing one or more sources indicated as preferred by the source para...