Patents by Inventor Susan L. Booker
Susan L. Booker 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).
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Publication number: 20220375553Abstract: An example method includes receiving, by a digital assistant capable of accessing a plurality of types of health information, a natural language input associated with a type of health information of the plurality of types of health information; in accordance with a determination that the natural language input corresponds to a health domain: determining whether the digital assistant is authorized to access the type of health information; in accordance with a determination that the digital assistant is authorized to access the type of health information: initiating a task based on the natural language input; and in accordance with a determination that the digital assistant is not authorized to access the type of health information: providing a second output indicating that the digital assistant is not authorized to access the type of health information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Rae Lee LASKO, Quannon AU, Kunal Karan BHUWALKA, Susan L. BOOKER, Xingliang CHEN, Jamie CHENG, Sue Wen CHIAO, Matthew W. CROWLEY, Irene G. LIN, Christopher L. MAURY, Marc Edward SCHONBRUN, Christopher Matthew WEBB
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Patent number: 11227589Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In one example process, a spoken user request associated with a plurality of data items is received. The process determines whether a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level. In response to determining that a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level, one or more attributes related to the spoken user request are determined. The one or more attributes are not defined in the spoken user request. Additionally, a list of data items based on the spoken user request and the one or more attributes is obtained. A spoken response comprising a subset of the list of data items is generated and the spoken response is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Susan L. Booker, Murali Krishnan, Aimee Piercy, Garrett L. Weinberg
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Patent number: 10553215Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an automated assistant are disclosed. In one example process, an electronic device provides an audio output via a speaker of the electronic device. While providing the audio output, the electronic device receives, via a microphone of the electronic device, a natural language speech input. The electronic device derives a representation of user intent based on the natural language speech input and the audio output, identifies a task based on the derived user intent; and performs the identified task.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Harry J. Saddler, Aimee T. Piercy, Garrett L. Weinberg, Susan L. Booker
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Patent number: 10490187Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In one example process, a speech input is received from a user. A user intent is determined based on the speech input. Determining the user intent includes generating text based on the speech input, performing natural language processing of the text, and determining the user intent based on a result of the natural language processing. In accordance with the user intent, status information associated with at least one of the one or more electronic devices is requested. The status information associated with the at least one of the one or more electronic devices is received. A spoken output is generated and represents the status information associated with the at least one of the one or more electronic devices. The spoken output is caused to be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter Allan Laurens, Christopher Verwymeren, Susan L. Booker, Jonathan J. Moore, Roshni Malani, Benjamin S. Phipps
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Publication number: 20190147880Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In one example process, a spoken user request associated with a plurality of data items is received. The process determines whether a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level. In response to determining that a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level, one or more attributes related to the spoken user request are determined. The one or more attributes are not defined in the spoken user request. Additionally, a list of data items based on the spoken user request and the one or more attributes is obtained. A spoken response comprising a subset of the list of data items is generated and the spoken response is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Susan L. BOOKER, Murali KRISHNAN, Aimee PIERCY, Garrett L. WEINBERG
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Patent number: 10249300Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In one example process, a spoken user request associated with a plurality of data items is received. The process determines whether a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level. In response to determining that a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level, one or more attributes related to the spoken user request are determined. The one or more attributes are not defined in the spoken user request. Additionally, a list of data items based on the spoken user request and the one or more attributes is obtained. A spoken response comprising a subset of the list of data items is generated and the spoken response is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Susan L. Booker, Murali Krishnan, Garrett L. Weinberg, Aimee Piercy
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Publication number: 20180308486Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an automated assistant are disclosed. In one example process, an electronic device provides an audio output via a speaker of the electronic device. While providing the audio output, the electronic device receives, via a microphone of the electronic device, a natural language speech input. The electronic device derives a representation of user intent based on the natural language speech input and the audio output, identifies a task based on the derived user intent; and performs the identified task.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Harry J. SADDLER, Aimee T. PIERCY, Garrett L. WEINBERG, Susan L. BOOKER
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Patent number: 10043516Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an automated assistant are disclosed. In one example process, an electronic device provides an audio output via a speaker of the electronic device. While providing the audio output, the electronic device receives, via a microphone of the electronic device, a natural language speech input. The electronic device derives a representation of user intent based on the natural language speech input and the audio output, identifies a task based on the derived user intent; and performs the identified task.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Harry J. Saddler, Aimee T. Piercy, Garrett L. Weinberg, Susan L. Booker
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Publication number: 20180090143Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an automated assistant are disclosed. In one example process, an electronic device provides an audio output via a speaker of the electronic device. While providing the audio output, the electronic device receives, via a microphone of the electronic device, a natural language speech input. The electronic device derives a representation of user intent based on the natural language speech input and the audio output, identifies a task based on the derived user intent; and performs the identified task.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Harry J. SADDLER, Aimee T. PIERCY, Garrett L. WEINBERG, Susan L. BOOKER
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Publication number: 20170358300Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In one example process, a speech input is received from a user. A user intent is determined based on the speech input. Determining the user intent includes generating text based on the speech input, performing natural language processing of the text, and determining the user intent based on a result of the natural language processing. In accordance with the user intent, status information associated with at least one of the one or more electronic devices is requested. The status information associated with the at least one of the one or more electronic devices is received. A spoken output is generated and represents the status information associated with the at least one of the one or more electronic devices. The spoken output is caused to be provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Peter Allan LAURENS, Christopher VERWYMEREN, Susan L. BOOKER, Jonathan J. MOORE, Roshni MALANI, Benjamin S. PHIPPS
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Publication number: 20170352350Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In one example process, a spoken user request associated with a plurality of data items is received. The process determines whether a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level. In response to determining that a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level, one or more attributes related to the spoken user request are determined. The one or more attributes are not defined in the spoken user request. Additionally, a list of data items based on the spoken user request and the one or more attributes is obtained. A spoken response comprising a subset of the list of data items is generated and the spoken response is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Susan L. BOOKER, Murali KRISHNAN, Garrett L. WEINBERG, Aimee PIERCY
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Patent number: 6115724Abstract: Electronic paper which has two sides, reverse of one another, which can be flipped over in response to user generated flip commands is described. When a piece of electronic paper is flipped over, a number of transition views of the paper are generated to give the user the impression that the paper is actually being turned over to reveal a reverse side. Different information can be stored on either side, and the composition of either side can be linked so that changes made to the graphic information on one side affects the graphic information on the other side. In addition, when the amount of graphic information on the reverse side of the paper exceeds the amount of available space normally available on the reverse side when the paper is flipped over, approximately the same amount of space available on the top side, the reverse side is expanded to fit the quantity of information to be displayed on the reverse side.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1997Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventor: Susan L. Booker
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Patent number: 5838889Abstract: Electronic paper which has two sides, reverse of one another, which can be flipped over in response to user generated flip commands is described. When a piece of electronic paper is flipped over, a number of transition views of the paper are generated to give the user the impression that the paper is actually being turned over to reveal a reverse side. Different information can be stored on either side, and the composition of either side can be linked so that changes made to the graphic information on one side affects the graphic information on the other side. In addition, when the amount of graphic information on the reverse side of the paper exceeds the amount of available space normally available on the reverse side when the paper is flipped over, approximately the same amount of space available on the top side, the reverse side is expanded to fit the quantity of information to be displayed on the reverse side.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1995Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventor: Susan L. Booker
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Patent number: 5351995Abstract: Electronic paper which has two sides, reverse of one another, which can be flipped over in response to user generated flip commands is described. When a piece of electronic paper is flipped over, a number of transition views of the paper are generated to give the user the impression that the paper is actually being turned over to reveal a reverse side. Different information can be stored on either side, and the composition of either side can be linked so that changes made to the graphic information on one side affects the graphic information on the other side. In addition, when the amount of graphic information on the reverse side of the paper exceeds the amount of available space normally available on the reverse side when the paper is flipped over, approximately the same amount of space available on the top side, the reverse side is expanded to fit the quantity of information to be displayed on the reverse side.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1992Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventor: Susan L. Booker