Patents by Inventor REBECCA R. JAMES

REBECCA R. JAMES 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).

  • Efficiently managing predictive changes for a conversational agent
    Patent number: 11604928
    Abstract: A dialog change service builds a directed graph of nodes, each described by code for a conversational agent stored in source control, the code comprising one or more dialog-based features. The dialog change service, responsive to receiving a request for a dialog change to a particular node of the conversational agent, evaluates the directed graph to identify an additional selection of nodes that require a similar changes as the dialog change based on textual and structural content. The dialog change service updates the code for the particular node and the additional selection of nodes to propagate the dialog change in the conversational agent stored in source control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rebecca R. James, Lalit Agarwalla, Shane M. Kilmon, Andrew R. Freed, Leo Mazzoli
  • EFFICIENTLY MANAGING PREDICTIVE CHANGES FOR A CONVERSATIONAL AGENT
    Publication number: 20210342542
    Abstract: A dialog change service builds a directed graph of nodes, each described by code for a conversational agent stored in source control, the code comprising one or more dialog-based features. The dialog change service, responsive to receiving a request for a dialog change to a particular node of the conversational agent, evaluates the directed graph to identify an additional selection of nodes that require a similar changes as the dialog change based on textual and structural content. The dialog change service updates the code for the particular node and the additional selection of nodes to propagate the dialog change in the conversational agent stored in source control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: REBECCA R. JAMES, LALIT AGARWALLA, SHANE M. KILMON, ANDREW R. FREED, LEO MAZZOLI