Patents by Inventor Aaron B. Phillips

Aaron B. Phillips 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).

  • Semantic pre-processing of natural language input in a virtual personal assistant
    Patent number: 10579835
    Abstract: A computing system is operable as a virtual personal assistant (VPA). Among other things, a semantic preprocessor of the VPA recognizes natural language user input that is intended as a reference to a known semantic type, and creates a semantic interpretation of the natural language input. The semantic interpretation may be used by a natural language understanding module of the VPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SRI INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Aaron B. Phillips, Necip F. Ayan