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1. A method comprising:
- maintaining information characterizing one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of a person;
receiving information indicative of (a) content that is to be part of a message to be delivered to a recipient on behalf of the person, (b) a relationship between the person and the recipient, and (c) a delivery time for delivery of the message, in which the content, the delivery time, or both are not present in the received information;
inferring one or more of (i) the content based on the received information indicative of the content, including inferring at least some of the content at the delivery time, (ii) an identity of the recipient based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the person and the recipient, or (iii) the delivery time based on the received information indicative of the delivery time; and
delivering the message to the recipient at the delivery time on behalf of the person, the message including the content, the delivering including providing a customized natural language response to an input received from the recipient, the providing of the response comprising using a digital representation of the person generated based on one or more of the appearance, the voice, or the behavior of the person.
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Abstract
Among other things, an intelligent automated proxy for an party who wants to communicate a multimedia message about a life event an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog to a second party and provides information from which the life event, the communication, the manner of delivery, the future time, and the recipient can be determined.
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1. A method comprising:
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maintaining information characterizing one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of a person; receiving information indicative of (a) content that is to be part of a message to be delivered to a recipient on behalf of the person, (b) a relationship between the person and the recipient, and (c) a delivery time for delivery of the message, in which the content, the delivery time, or both are not present in the received information; inferring one or more of (i) the content based on the received information indicative of the content, including inferring at least some of the content at the delivery time, (ii) an identity of the recipient based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the person and the recipient, or (iii) the delivery time based on the received information indicative of the delivery time; and delivering the message to the recipient at the delivery time on behalf of the person, the message including the content, the delivering including providing a customized natural language response to an input received from the recipient, the providing of the response comprising using a digital representation of the person generated based on one or more of the appearance, the voice, or the behavior of the person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method comprising:
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receiving (a) information characterizing one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of a person and (b) information indicative of a relationship between the person and a recipient; inferring an identity of the recipient based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the person and the recipient; and providing a customized natural language response to an input received from the recipient, the providing of the response comprising using a digital representation of the person that is generated based on one or more of the appearance, the voice, or the behavior of the person, in which the person is not alive or not competent when the natural language interaction is conducted. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A system comprising:
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a storage device for maintaining information characterizing one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of a person; and an analytics engine for; receiving information indicative of (a) content that is to be part of a message to be delivered to a recipient on behalf of the person, (b) a relationship between the person and the recipient, and (c) a delivery time for delivery of the message, in which the content, the delivery time, or both are not present in the received information, inferring one or more of (i) the content based on the received information indicative of the content, including inferring at least some of the content at the delivery time, (ii) an identity of the recipient based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the person and the recipient, or (iii) the delivery time based on the received information indicative of the delivery time, and delivering the message to the recipient at the delivery time on behalf of the person, the message including the content, the analytics engine configured to provide a customized natural language response to an input received from the recipient, the providing of the response comprising using a digital representation of the person generated based on one or more of the appearance, the voice, or the behavior of the person. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39)
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40. A system comprising:
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a communication engine for receiving (a) information characterizing one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of a person and (b) information indicative of a relationship between the person and a recipient; and an analytics engine for; inferring the identity of the recipient based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the person and the recipient, and providing a customized natural language response to an input received from the recipient, the providing of the response comprising using a digital representation of the person that is generated based on one or more of the appearance, the voice, or the behavior of the person, in which the person is not alive or not competent when the natural language interaction is conducted. - View Dependent Claims (41)
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42. A method comprising
receiving information from which at least one of the following can be derived: - content of a message to be delivered from a first party to a second party about a life event, a manner of delivery of the message, a future time when the message is to be delivered, or the identity of the second party, in which the received information includes information indicative of a relationship between the first party and the second party, in which the content, the future time, or both are not present in the received information,
inferring one or more of the content, the manner of delivery, the future time, or the identity of the second party based at least in part on at least some of the received information, including inferring the identity of the second party based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the first party and the second party, automatically on behalf of the first party, forming, based on the received information and one or more of the inferred content or the inferred manner of delivery, an integrated, conversational multimedia message that is to be part of a customized natural language dialog with the second party. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
- content of a message to be delivered from a first party to a second party about a life event, a manner of delivery of the message, a future time when the message is to be delivered, or the identity of the second party, in which the received information includes information indicative of a relationship between the first party and the second party, in which the content, the future time, or both are not present in the received information,
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52. A method comprising
maintaining digital information that enables the formation of an interactive digital surrogate of an originating person based on digital audio or video information derived from the originating person, inferring an identity of a receiving person based at least in part on information provided by the originating person, the information indicative of a relationship between the originating person and the receiving person, and at a time when the originating person is not alive or otherwise not available, causing the digital surrogate to engage in a customized natural language dialog with the receiving person.
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55. A method comprising:
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maintaining information characterizing one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of a person; receiving information indicative of (a) a relationship between the person and a recipient and (b) a delivery time for delivery of a message to be delivered to the recipient on behalf of the person, in which the delivery time is not present in the received information; inferring one or more of (i) an identity of the recipient based on the received information indicative of the relationship between the person and the recipient or (ii) the delivery time based on the received information indicative of the delivery time; and delivering the message to the recipient at the delivery time on behalf of the person, the delivering including providing a customized natural language response to an input received from the recipient, the natural language response comprising a digital representation of the person based on at least some of the information characterizing one or more of the appearance, the voice, or the behavior of the person.
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