Patents by Inventor Andy James Stoneberg

Andy James Stoneberg 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: 20240104307
    Abstract: A plurality of constraints associated with conversational steps implemented by a conversation model is extracted from the conversation model. Using the conversational steps and the constraints, a directed graph is constructed, each node in the directed graph representing a conversational step, each directed edge in the directed graph representing a possible execution path from a first conversational step to a second conversational step. An edge in the graph is populated with flow data denoting a probability associated with the edge. By traversing a portion of the graph, an experience preview is generated, the experience preview demonstrating a user experience of a portion of the conversation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Muhtar Burak Akbulut, Pankaj Dhoolia, Dan O'Connor, Andy James Stoneberg, Venkat Raghavan Ganesh Sekar
  • Patent number: 11853335
    Abstract: In an approach for a cooperative build and content annotation system for conversational design of virtual assistants, a processor formulates a build context based on a build activity of a user. A processor formulates one or more content queries based on the build context. A processor builds a content index by augmenting a text-search index with a neural Information Retrieval (IR) index. A processor searches the content index using the one or more content queries to identify content relevant to the build context. A processor determines at least one recommendation for the user based on heuristic rules applied to the build context and the identified content, wherein each recommendation is a build suggestion or a content annotation suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Muhtar Burak Akbulut, Pankaj Dhoolia, Andy James Stoneberg, Dan O'Connor, Sachindra Joshi
  • Publication number: 20230401242
    Abstract: In an approach for a cooperative build and content annotation system for conversational design of virtual assistants, a processor formulates a build context based on a build activity of a user. A processor formulates one or more content queries based on the build context. A processor builds a content index by augmenting a text-search index with a neural Information Retrieval (IR) index. A processor searches the content index using the one or more content queries to identify content relevant to the build context. A processor determines at least one recommendation for the user based on heuristic rules applied to the build context and the identified content, wherein each recommendation is a build suggestion or a content annotation suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Muhtar Burak Akbulut, Pankaj Dhoolia, Andy James Stoneberg, Dan O'Connor, Sachindra Joshi