Patents by Inventor Gareth Walters

Gareth Walters 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).

  • Hybrid approach for developing, optimizing, and executing conversational interaction applications
    Patent number: 10068174
    Abstract: A system for hybrid approach to natural language understanding is provided, comprising a machine learning configured to create a new natural language understanding model from user-provided examples, and provide a natural language understanding model dataset to other components of the system; an integrated development environment configured to retrieve the natural language understanding model dataset, and publish a hybrid runtime solution; and an interaction engine configured to: retrieve the hybrid runtime solution, receive a natural language input, and process the natural language input and generate a log dataset; wherein, the log dataset may be used to retrain and improve existing models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Artifical Solutions Iberia S.L.
    Inventors: Eric Aili, Rebecca Jonsson, Siem Uittenhout, Gareth Walters, Andreas Wieweg, Lucas Willering
  • HYBRID APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING, OPTIMIZING, AND EXECUTING CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20180089572
    Abstract: A system for hybrid approach to natural language understanding is provided, comprising a machine learning configured to create a new natural language understanding model from user-provided examples, and provide a natural language understanding model dataset to other components of the system; an integrated development environment configured to retrieve the natural language understanding model dataset, and publish a hybrid runtime solution; and an interaction engine configured to: retrieve the hybrid runtime solution, receive a natural language input, and process the natural language input and generate a log dataset; wherein, the log dataset may be used to retrain and improve existing models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Aili, Rebecca Jonsson, Siem Uittenhout, Gareth Walters, Andreas Wieweg, Lucas Willering
  • System and methods for virtual assistant networks
    Patent number: 9172747
    Abstract: A system for the operation of a virtual assistant network, comprising a plurality of virtual assistants stored and operating on network-connected devices, and a plurality of virtual assistant brokers stored and operating on network-connected devices, wherein the virtual assistants receive user requests and send the requests to the virtual assistant brokers, and wherein the virtual assistant brokers delegate the requests to other virtual assistants for fulfillment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Artificial Solutions Iberia SL
    Inventors: Gareth Walters, Ebba Gustavii, Rebecca Jonsson, Andreas Wieweg, Sonja Petrovic-Lundberg, David Hjelm
  • SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANT NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20140244712
    Abstract: A system for the operation of a virtual assistant network, comprising a plurality of virtual assistants stored and operating on network-connected devices, and a plurality of virtual assistant brokers stored and operating on network-connected devices, wherein the virtual assistants receive user requests and send the requests to the virtual assistant brokers, and wherein the virtual assistant brokers delegate the requests to other virtual assistants for fulfillment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Artificial Solutions Iberia SL
    Inventors: Gareth Walters, Ebba Gustavii, Rebecca Jonsson, Andreas Wieweg, Sonja Petrovic-Lundberg, David Hjelm