PERSONAL ASSISTANT CONTEXT BUILDING

• US 20160004686A1
• Filed: 09/11/2015
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZAMA Innovations LLC
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: KRUGLICK, EZEKIEL
• Granted Patent: US 9,772,990 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/374 Thesaurus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0266 using meta-data, objects or commands for formatting management information, e.g. using eXtensible markup language [XML]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Technologies related to personal assistant context building are generally described. In some examples, network service communications, such as network traffic resulting from the use of mobile applications or “apps” on a mobile device, may be captured, parsed, and included in personal assistant context databases for use in configuring automated personal assistant user interaction operations. In some examples, parsing services may be provided to parse forwarded network service communications and generate converted data for inclusion in personal assistant context databases.

Claims

1-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A method for providing a parsing service, comprising:

receiving, by a network server from a computing device, a copy of a network service communication including one or more of a network service request made by the computing device or a network service response received by the computing device;

parsing, by the network server, the received copy of the network service communication to generate parsed personal assistant data;

maintaining, by the network server, a network service library including service translation information for a plurality of network services;

identifying, by the network server, service translation information in the network service library for the network service corresponding to the received copy of the network service communication;

converting, by the network server, the parsed personal assistant data using the identified service translation information, to produce converted data;

including, by the network server, the converted data in the parsed personal assistant data; and

sending, by the network server, the parsed personal assistant data including the converted data to the computing device.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the network service communication comprises an API communication including one or more of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) or a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) communication.

33. The method of claim 31, further comprising determining, by the network server, relative weights of relationships between the parsed personal assistant data, and including the relative weights of relationships in the parsed personal assistant data.

44. The method of claim 31, wherein maintaining the network service library comprises checking published network APIs for updates to the published network APIs.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein maintaining the network service library comprises including, for an update to a published network API, thesaurus information for the update to the published network API.

46. The method of claim 31, wherein parsing the received copy of the network service communication comprises removing portions of the received copy of the network service communication.

47. The method of claim 31, wherein parsing the received copy of the network service communication comprises grouping portions of the received copy of the network service communication.

34. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions executable by a processor, the instructions that, when executed by the processor, implement a parsing service, which causes the processor to:

receive a copy of a network service communication including one or more of a network service request made by a computing device or a network service response received by the computing device;

parse the received copy of the network service communication to generate parsed personal assistant data;

maintain a network service library including service translation information for a plurality of network services;

identify service translation information in the network service library for the network service corresponding to the received copy of the network service communication;

convert the parsed personal assistant data using the identified service translation information, to produce converted data;

include the converted data in the parsed personal assistant data; and

send the parsed personal assistant data including the converted data to the computing device.

35. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 34, wherein the network service communication comprises an API communication including one or more of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) or a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) communication.

36. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 34, wherein the parsing service causes the processor to determine relative weights of relationships between the parsed personal assistant data, and to include the relative weights of relationships in the parsed personal assistant data.

48. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 34, wherein the parsing service causes the processor to maintain the network service library at least in part by checking published network APIs for updates to the published network APIs.

49. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 48, wherein the parsing service causes the processor to maintain the network service library at least in part by including, for an update to a published network API, thesaurus information for the update to the published network API.

50. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 34, wherein the parsing service causes the processor to parse the received copy of the network service communication at least in part by removing portions of the received copy of the network service communication.

51. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 34, wherein the parsing service causes the processor to parse the received copy of the network service communication at least in part by grouping portions of the received copy of the network service communication.

37. A network server configured to provide a parsing service, the network server comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

a parsing service stored in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the parsing service is configured to;

receive a copy of a network service communication including one or more of a network service request made by a computing device or a network service response received by the computing device;

parse the received copy of the network service communication to generate parsed personal assistant data;

maintain a network service library including service translation information for a plurality of network services;

identify service translation information in the network service library for the network service corresponding to the received copy of the network service communication;

convert the parsed personal assistant data using the identified service translation information, to produce converted data;

include the converted data in the parsed personal assistant data; and

send the parsed personal assistant data including the converted data to the computing device.

38. The network server of claim 37, wherein the network service communication comprises an API communication including one or more of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) or a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) communication.

39. The network server of claim 37, wherein the parsing service is configured to determine relative weights of relationships between the parsed personal assistant data, and to include the relative weights of relationships in the parsed personal assistant data.

40. The network server of claim 37, wherein the parsing service is configured to maintain the network service library at least in part by checking published network APIs for updates to the published network APIs.

41. The network server of claim 40, wherein the parsing service is configured to maintain the network service library at least in part by including, for an update to a published network API, thesaurus information for the update to the published network API.

42. The network server of claim 37, wherein the parsing service is configured to parse the received copy of the network service communication at least in part by removing portions of the received copy of the network service communication.

43. The network server of claim 37, wherein the parsing service is configured to parse the received copy of the network service communication at least in part by grouping portions of the received copy of the network service communication.