Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11886805 B2) for “Unconventional Digital Assistant Interactions” involving Siri.
In regards to the patent
The patent elates usually to a digital assistant, and extra particularly to methods for interacting with a digital assistant. Within the patent, Apple notes that Clever automated assistants (or digital assistants) resembling Siri present a useful interface between human customers and digital gadgets. S
uch assistants enable customers to work together with gadgets or methods utilizing pure language in spoken and/or textual content types. For instance, a person can entry the providers of an digital machine by offering a spoken person request to a digital assistant related to the digital machine.
The digital assistant can interpret the person’s intent from the spoken person request and operationalize the person’s intent into duties. The duties can then be carried out by executing a number of providers of the digital machine and a related output could be returned to the person in pure language type or displayed on a tool display.
Apple says {that a} digital assistant could be useful in remembering calendar occasions or different reminders which were set particularly by a person. It additionally could be useful in producing a suggestion primarily based on a person request and on third-party opinions which can be publicly accessible. Nonetheless, Apple says that digital assistants usually haven’t been helpful in dealing with unconventional interactions, resembling interactions with customers apart from a major person, interactions with different digital assistants, complicated interactions, and interactions with bodily entities.
What’s extra, the corporate says that digital assistants usually haven’t been helpful in performing duties which can be unfold out in time, or that embody contingent steps or encounter exceptions. Apple desires to vary this with future variations of Siri.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s (slightly technical) summary of the patent: “An exemplary methodology of utilizing a digital assistant might embody receiving an unstructured natural-language person request for a service from a digital assistant; figuring out whether or not the person request corresponds to at the least considered one of a plurality of plan templates accessible to the digital assistant, primarily based on the content material of the person request and the content material of the plan templates; in accordance with a dedication that the person request corresponds to at the least one of many plurality of plan templates, choosing one of many plurality of plan templates; and in accordance with a dedication the person request fails to correspond to at the least one of many plurality of plan templates, foregoing collection of a plan template; and in response to collection of one of many plan templates, starting to reply to the person request based on the chosen plan template.”
