Patents by Inventor Kenneth Harry COOPER

Kenneth Harry COOPER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Utilizing spoken cues to influence response rendering for virtual assistants
    Patent number: 10176808
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a virtual assistant into a spoken conversation session, the techniques including receiving an utterance information that expresses an utterance spoken by a first participant included in a plurality of participants of a spoken conversation session; processing the utterance information using at least one machine-trained model to determine an intent or content for a command or query included in the utterance; selectively identifying a recipient subset of one or more of the plurality of participants based on at least the determined intent or content for the utterance; generating a response for the command or query; and providing, during the spoken conversation session, the response to the identified recipient subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew William Lovitt, Kenneth Harry Cooper
  • UTILIZING SPOKEN CUES TO INFLUENCE RESPONSE RENDERING FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS
    Publication number: 20180366118
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating a virtual assistant into a spoken conversation session, the techniques including receiving an utterance information that expresses an utterance spoken by a first participant included in a plurality of participants of a spoken conversation session; processing the utterance information using at least one machine-trained model to determine an intent or content for a command or query included in the utterance; selectively identifying a recipient subset of one or more of the plurality of participants based on at least the determined intent or content for the utterance; generating a response for the command or query; and providing, during the spoken conversation session, the response to the identified recipient subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew William LOVITT, Kenneth Harry COOPER