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Displaying answers in accordance with answer classifications

  • US 10,061,842 B2
  • Filed: 12/09/2014
  • Issued: 08/28/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing answers in a computerized answering system to client devices of a network, comprising:

  • receiving, by a network interface of the computerized answering system via the network, a question for the computerized answering system from a client device of the network;

    retrieving, from a memory device of the computerized answering system, a plurality of classes corresponding to the question;

    generating, by a processor of the computerized answering system, answers to the question, wherein each answer is associated with a confidence value;

    comparing, by the processor, the confidence values associated with the answers with thresholds associated with the plurality of classes;

    classifying, by the processor, the answers into the plurality of classes based on the comparing;

    providing, by the network interface via the network, the answers for presentation in a display of the client device in accordance with the classification of the answers;

    receiving, by the network interface via the network, one or more user responses to one of the answers that was generated by the computerized answering system and classified in a first class of the plurality of classes; and

    adjusting, by the processor and based on the one or more user responses, at least a threshold associated with a second class of the plurality of classes to reclassify the one of the answers that was generated by the computerized answering system from the first class to the second class in the computerized answering system.

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