Patents by Inventor Nicholas G. Laidlaw

Nicholas G. Laidlaw 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).

  • Development of voice and other interaction applications
    Patent number: 10614800
    Abstract: Among other things, a developer of an interaction application for an enterprise can create items of content to be provided to an assistant platform for use in responses to requests of end-users. The developer can deploy the interaction application using defined items of content and an available general interaction model including intents and sample utterances having slots. The developer can deploy the interaction application without requiring the developer to formulate any of the intents, sample utterances, or slots of the general interaction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Voicify, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. McMahon, Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Gavin Berkowitz
  • Voice Application Platform
    Publication number: 20190371321
    Abstract: Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Jeffrey K. McMahon
  • Voice Application Platform
    Publication number: 20190371314
    Abstract: Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Voicify, LLC
    Inventors: Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Jeffrey K. McMahon
  • Voice Application Platform
    Publication number: 20190371312
    Abstract: Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Voicify, LLC
    Inventors: Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Jeffrey K. McMahon
  • VOICE APPLICATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20190371313
    Abstract: Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Voicify, LLC
    Inventors: Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Jeffrey K. McMahon
  • Voice application platform
    Patent number: 10235999
    Abstract: Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Voicify, LLC
    Inventors: Robert T. Naughton, Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Alexander M. Dunn, Jeffrey K. McMahon