ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,854, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Response method in human-computer dialogue, dialogue system, and storage medium" was invented by Yulong Zeng (Shenzhen, China), Yasheng Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yadao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of this application relates to a response method in a human-computer dialogue, a dialogue system, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of artificial intelligence. In a process of a dialogue between a user and a machine, a user intent of a current dialogue is determined based on an expected user intent ...