Patents by Inventor Charles Clayton Wooters

Charles Clayton Wooters 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: 20250029110
    Abstract: A method of evaluating performance of a chatbot includes identifying a test scenario including a request and an expected outcome, initiating an automated conversation between a first machine learning model and the chatbot based on the test scenario, storing a recording of the automated conversation, providing the recording of the automated conversation and the test scenario to a second machine learning model, and receiving an evaluation of the automated conversation from the second machine learning model based on the recording of the automated conversation and the expected outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Charles Clayton Wooters, Ron Harlev, Ives José de Albuquerque Macêdo, JR., George Seif, Yochai Konig
  • Patent number: 11289085
    Abstract: A method of automatically delineating turns in a multi-turn dialogue between a user and a conversational computing interface. Audio data encoding speech of the user in the multi-turn dialogue is received. The audio data is analyzed to recognize, in the speech of the user, an utterance followed by a silence. The utterance is recognized as a last utterance in a turn of the multi-turn dialogue responsive to the silence exceeding a context-dependent duration dynamically updated based on a conversation history of the multi-turn dialogue and features of the received audio, wherein the conversation history includes one or more previous turns of the multi-turn dialogue taken by the user and one or more previous turns of the multi-turn dialogue taken by the conversational computing interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Clayton Wooters, Steven Andrew Wegmann, Michael Jack Newman, David Leo Wright Hall, Jean Crawford, Laurence Steven Gillick
  • Publication number: 20210158812
    Abstract: A method of automatically delineating turns in a multi-turn dialogue between a user and a conversational computing interface. Audio data encoding speech of the user in the multi-turn dialogue is received. The audio data is analyzed to recognize, in the speech of the user, an utterance followed by a silence. The utterance is recognized as a last utterance in a turn of the multi-turn dialogue responsive to the silence exceeding a context-dependent duration dynamically updated based on a conversation history of the multi-turn dialogue and features of the received audio, wherein the conversation history includes one or more previous turns of the multi-turn dialogue taken by the user and one or more previous turns of the multi-turn dialogue taken by the conversational computing interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Clayton WOOTERS, Steven Andrew WEGMANN, Michael Jack NEWMAN, David Leo Wright HALL, Jean CRAWFORD, Laurence Steven GILLICK
  • Publication number: 20180061408
    Abstract: An automated assistant automatically recognizes speech, decode paraphrases in the recognized speech, performs an action or task based on the decoder output, and provides a response to the user. The response may be text or audio, and may be translated to include paraphrasing. The automatically recognized speech may be processed to determine partitions in the speech, which may be in turn processed to identify paraphrases in the partitions. A decoder may process an input utterance text to identify paraphrases content to include in a segment or sentence. The decoder may paraphrase the input utterance to make the utterance, updated with one or more paraphrases, more easily parsed by a parser. A translator may process a generated response to make the response sound more natural. The translator may replace content of the generated response with paraphrase content based on the state of the conversation with the user, including salience data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Semantic Machines, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Daniel Andreas, David Ernesto Heekin Burkett, Pengyu Chen, Jordan Rian Cohen, Gregory Christopher Durrett, Laurence Steven Gillick, David Leo Wright Hall, Daniel Klein, Adam David Pauls, Daniel Lawrence Roth, Jesse Daniele Eskes Rusak, Yan Virin, Charles Clayton Wooters