Patents by Inventor Shishir Sridhar Bharathi

Shishir Sridhar Bharathi 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).

  • Publication number: 20230410816
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, David Robert Thomas, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Vikas Jain, Jeff Bradley Beal, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi
  • Patent number: 11688402
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests. Natural Language Understanding (“NLU”) processing may be performed to generate command data that represents a subject of an utterance. The command data may be sent to an application that causes presentation of first output content in a first modality at a first time in response to receiving the command data, and generates second output content in a second modality different from the first modality, wherein the second output content is associated with the first output content. The second output content may be presented in the second modality at a second time subsequent to the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, David Robert Thomas, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Vikas Jain, Jeff Bradley Beal, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi
  • Patent number: 11094320
    Abstract: Dialog visualizations are created to enable analysis of interactions between a user and a speech recognition system used to implement user commands. Spoken commands from the user may be classified, along with system responses to the spoken commands, to enable aggregation of communication exchanges that form dialog. This data may then be used to create a dialog visualization. The dialog visualization may enable an analyst to visually explore different branches of the interactions represented in the dialog visualization. The dialog visualization may show a trajectory of the dialog, which may be explored in an interactive manner by the analyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Jain, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi, Giuseppe Pino Di Fabbrizio, Ling Hu, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Shamitha Somashekar, John Daniel Thimsen, Tudor Toma
  • Publication number: 20200402515
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, David Robert Thomas, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Vikas Jain, Jeff Bradley Beal, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi
  • Patent number: 10726831
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for processing and interpreting natural language, such as interpretations of user utterances, in multi-turn dialog interactions. Context information regarding interpretations of user utterances and system responses to the user utterances can be maintained. Subsequent user utterances can be interpreted using the context information, rather than being interpreted without context. In some cases, interpretations of subsequent user utterances can be merged with interpretations of prior user utterances using a rule-based framework. Rules may be defined to determine which interpretations may be merged and under what circumstances they may be merged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi, Ying Shi, Lambert Mathias
  • Patent number: 10706854
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, David Robert Thomas, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Vikas Jain, Jeff Bradley Beal, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi
  • Publication number: 20180012601
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, David Robert Thomas, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Vikas Jain, Jeff Bradley Beal, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi
  • Patent number: 9754591
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nishant Kumar, David Robert Thomas, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Vikas Jain, Jeff Bradley Beal, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi
  • Publication number: 20150340033
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for processing and interpreting natural language, such as interpretations of user utterances, in multi-turn dialog interactions. Context information regarding interpretations of user utterances and system responses to the user utterances can be maintained. Subsequent user utterances can be interpreted using the context information, rather than being interpreted without context. In some cases, interpretations of subsequent user utterances can be merged with interpretations of prior user utterances using a rule-based framework. Rules may be defined to determine which interpretations may be merged and under what circumstances they may be merged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Shishir Sridhar Bharathi, Ying Shi, Lambert Mathias