Patents by Inventor Steven Andrew Wegmann

Steven Andrew Wegmann 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).

  • Automatic turn delineation in multi-turn dialogue
    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
  • AUTOMATIC TURN DELINEATION IN MULTI-TURN DIALOGUE
    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
  • Iteratively updating parameters for dialog states
    Patent number: 10319381
    Abstract: An interaction assistant conducts multiple turn interaction dialogs with a user in which context is maintained between turns, and the system manages the dialog to achieve an inferred goal for the user. The system includes a linguistic interface to a user and a parser for processing linguistic events from the user. A dialog manager of the system is configured to receive alternative outputs from the parser, and selecting an action and causing the action to be performed based on the received alternative outputs. The system further includes a dialog state for an interaction with the user, and the alternative outputs represent alternative transitions from a current dialog state to a next dialog state. The system further includes a storage for a plurality of templates, and wherein each dialog state is defined in terms of an interrelationship of one or more instances of the templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Semantic Machines, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Daniel Andreas, Daniel Lawrence Roth, Jesse Daniel Eskes Rusak, Andrew Robert Volpe, Steven Andrew Wegmann, Taylor Darwin Berg-Kirkpatrick, Pengyu Chen, Jordan Rian Cohen, Laurence Steven Gillick, David Leo Wright Hall, Daniel Klein, Michael Newman, Adam David Pauls
  • Automated assistant for user interaction via speech
    Patent number: 10276160
    Abstract: An interaction assistant conducts multiple turn interaction dialogs with a user in which context is maintained between turns, and the system manages the dialog to achieve an inferred goal for the user. The system includes a linguistic interface to a user and a parser for processing linguistic events from the user. A dialog manager of the system is configured to receive alternative outputs from the parser, and selecting an action and causing the action to be performed based on the received alternative outputs. The system further includes a dialog state for an interaction with the user, and the alternative outputs represent alternative transitions from a current dialog state to a next dialog state. The system further includes a storage for a plurality of templates, and wherein each dialog state is defined in terms of an interrelationship of one or more instances of the templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Semantic Machines, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Daniel Andreas, Taylor Darwin Berg-Kirkpatrick, Pengyu Chen, Jordan Rian Cohen, Laurence Steven Gillick, David Leo Wright Hall, Daniel Klein, Michael Newman, Adam David Pauls, Daniel Lawrence Roth, Jesse Daniel Eskes Rusak, Andrew Robert Volpe, Steven Andrew Wegmann