US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Context-aware relevance modeling in conversational systems" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,385, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context-aware relevance modeling in conversational systems" was invented by Hui Wan (White Plains, N.Y.), Xiaodong Cui (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Songtao Lu (White Plains, N.Y.) and Marina Danilevsky Hailpern (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for a context-aware relevancy modelling in conversational systems. A user query is received. A latent static content d is selected from a corpus of content D. A latent set of context C from a set of external context Cu is a...