Extension of Third Party Application Functionality for Intent Determination

• US 20160239568A1
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Packer, Alan, Bikkula, Ravi, Wang, Ye-Yi
• Granted Patent: US 10,762,143 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Intent determination as a service (IaaS) is disclosed. A third party application may be provided access to an IaaS service. The third party application and the IaaS system may exchange or be provided registration data and information that allow configuration of data and interfaces used in provision of IaaS to the third party application. A query received as input at the third party application may be sent to the IaaS system and the intent of a query may be determined and indicated in a query response sent back to the third party application. A third party application may also interface with a device client application integrated into the operating system of a device as part of accessing an IaaS system. Use of IaaS for queries associated with or relevant to third party applications may extend the capabilities of the third party applications and device client applications.

Claims

1. A system providing intent determination services in a network, the system including an apparatus comprising:

a processor and memory including code, the code executable to cause the processor to control the apparatus to;

receive information associated with a third party application, the information for provision of intent determination services;

receive a query;

determine an intent of the query;

configure a query response indicating the intent of the query, the query response in a format configured for the third party application; and

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send the query response.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the information is associated with registration of the third party application and the information is received over a web service.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is implemented in a server, the processor comprises a first processor, and the system further comprises a device including:

a second processor and memory including code, the code executable to cause a device client to;

receive a query generated at the device client; and

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send the query to the apparatus;

and, wherein the apparatus is controlled to receive a query by receiving the query from the device client and send the query response by sending the query response to the device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the code is executable to cause the processor to further control the apparatus to send information associated with registration of the third party application to indicate a format to be used for configuring query responses for the third party application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the third party application is installed on a device operating in the network and the apparatus receives the query from the third party application and sends the query response to the third party application.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the third party application comprises a first third party application and the code is further executable to cause the processor to:

receive information associated with a second third party application, the information for provision of intent determination services; and

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wherein the query response is in a format configured for the first and second third party applications, the apparatus sends the query response to a device client of a device on which the first and second third party applications are implemented, and, the query response includes information that is useable by the device client in determining which of the first and second third party applications is to receive the query response.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the received information includes model building inputs associated with the third party application and the processor configures the system to utilize models created from the model building inputs for intent determination.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the model building inputs include a domain model associated with the third party application, and the wherein the code is executable to cause the processor to further control the apparatus to execute the domain model while providing the domain model access to knowledge sources created from operation of the intent determination service

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the information includes intent information associated with the third party application and wherein the code is executable to cause the processor to further control the apparatus to store the intent information in an intent registry.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the code is executable to cause the processor unit to further control the apparatus to store an indication of the format to be used for query responses to the third party application in a schema repository.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the third party application comprises a first third party application and the query response is in a format configured for the first third party application and a second third party application, and wherein the code is executable to cause the device client to determine which of the first and second third party applications is to be sent the query response

13. The device of claim 12, whereon the device client determines that the query response is to be sent to the first third party application by generating a prompt for input selection of the first or second third party application at a user interface.

11. A device for use in an intent determination as a service (IaaS) system, the device comprising:

a processor and memory including code, the code executable to cause a device client to;

receive a query generated at the device client;

send the query to the IaaS system;

receive a query response indicating the intent of the query, the query response in a format configured for a third party application; and

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send the query response to the third party application.

14. The device of claim 11, wherein the code is executable to cause the device client to access an intent registry of the IaaS system to determine that the query response is for the third party application

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the device client comprises a personal assistant.

16. A device for use in an intent determination as a service (IaaS) system, the device comprising:

a processor and memory including code, the code executable to cause a device client to;

receive a query generated at the device client;

determine that the query is suitable for handling by a third party application registered with the IaaS system; and

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send the query for processing.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein device client determines that the query is suitable for handling by a third party application by accessing an intent registry of the IaaS system.

18. The device of claim 16, wherein the device client sends the query for processing by sending the query to the third party application.

19. The device of claim 16, wherein the device client sends the query for processing by sending the query to the IaaS system.

20. The device of claim 16, wherein the device client comprises a personal assistant.