Intelligent personal assistants

• US 20030167167A1
• Filed: 05/31/2002
• Published: 09/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Gong, Li
• Application Number:
  US10/158,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20030167167A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/250
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/033 Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/227 of the speaker; Human-factor methodology
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/63 for estimating an emotional state

Abstract

An intelligent social agent is an animated computer interface agent with social intelligence that has been developed for a given application or type of applications and a particular user population. The social intelligence of the agent comes from the ability of the agent to be appealing, affective, adaptive, and appropriate when interacting with the user. An intelligent personal assistant is an implementation of an intelligent social agent that assists a user in operating a computing device and using application programs on a computing device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for implementing an intelligent personal assistant comprising:

receiving an input associated with a user and an input associated with an application program;

accessing a user profile associated with the user;

extracting context information from the received input; and

processing the context information and the user profile to produce an adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the application program is a personal information management application program, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the personal information management application program.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the application program is an application program to operate a computing device, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with operating the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the application program is an entertainment application program, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the entertainment application program.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein:

the entertainment application program is a game, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the game.

6. A computer-readable medium or propagated signal having embodied thereon a computer program configured to implement an intelligent personal assistant, the medium comprising a code segment configured to:

receive an input associated with a user and an input associated with an application program;

access a user profile associated with the user;

extract context information from the received input; and

process the context information and the user profile to produce an adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant.

7. The medium of claim 6 wherein:

the application program is a personal information management application program, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the personal information management application program.

8. The medium of claim 6 wherein:

the application program is an application program to operate a computing device, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with operating the computing device.

9. The medium of claim 6 wherein:

the application program is an entertainment application program, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the entertainment application program.

10. The medium of claim 9 wherein:

the entertainment application program is a game, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the game.

11. A system for implementing a intelligent personal assistant, the system comprising a processor connected to a storage device and one or more input/output devices, wherein the processor is configured to:

receive an input associated with a user and an input associated with an application program;

access a user profile associated with the user;

extract context information from the received input; and

process the context information and the user profile to produce an adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein:

the application program is a personal information management application program, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the personal information management application program.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein:

the application program is an application program to operate a computing device, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with operating the computing device.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein:

the application program is an entertainment application program, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the entertainment application program.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein:

the entertainment application program is a game, and

the adaptive response by the intelligent personal assistant is associated with the game.