US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 13 for "Context carryover across tasks for assistant systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,755, issued on May 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Context carryover across tasks for assistant systems" was invented by Xiaohu Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Kai Jun Weng (Seattle), Zhiguang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Paul Anthony Crook (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining contextual information from a first dialog session, wherein the contextual information comprises identifiers of entities and slots, receiving a user request during the first dialog session, determining a context carryover is required for an agent to execute a task assoc...