Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Siri's
(Apple) Patent
Application
[AH] Thoughts?
[ppy] while I totally admire the way they have
executed it, and am
happy for the Apple/Siri folks for finally
bringing ontology and
semantic technology to the mass market with such
fanfare ... I am, at
the same time, saddened by the fact that we (in
the US)
too, are now
under a "first to file" patent regime (and that
"first to invent" is
no longer relevant!)
Regards. =ppy
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Ali SH
<asaegyn+out@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A few years ago Adam Cheyer and Tom Gruber were
kind enough to present an
overview of Siri on
ontolog
( http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conferen
ceCall_2010_02_25 ), were
subsequently bought out by Apple and a few weeks
ago Apple released Siri as
that "one more thing" part of their
presentations - deeply integrating it
into the iPhone4S and their new iOS'es. Some
claim it is a break out point
for mass acceptance of AI technologies, and its
cultural / technological
consequences are on par with the mouse or GUI's.
Regardless, I thought people here might be
interested in their patent
application, which is
reviewed on this site:
http://www.unwiredview.com/2011/10/12/how-siri-on-
iphone-4s-works-and-why-it%E2%80%99s-a-big-deal-ap
ple%E2%80%99s-ai-tech-details-in-230-pages-of-pate
nt-app/
while this one looks at the surrounding patent
protections Siri and Apple
(and I suppose SRI) may have built around the
technologies
( http://startupsip.com/2011/10/14/is-apple-siri-o
us-about-ip/ ). The claims
on the '790 patent are
incredibly broad
An automated assistant operating on a computing
device, the assistant
comprising:
an input device, for receiving user input;
a language interpreter component, for
interpreting the received user input
to derive a representation of user intent;
a dialog flow processor component, for
identifying at least one domain, at
least one task, and at least one parameter for
the task, based at least in
part on the derived representation of user
intent;
a services orchestration component, for calling
at least one service for
performing the identified task;
an output processor component, for rendering
output based on data received
from the at least one called service, and
further based at least in part on
a current output mode; and
an output device, for outputting the rendered
output.
Fwiw, I believe that Leonid Kravets has
misunderstood the "language
interpreter" claim, and I doubt Apple is
referring to Nuance, but the
NLP/ontology interpretation that Siri is doing
w/ the Nuance speech-to-text
strings...
There's recently been another, much narrower
patent application to do with
ontologies and NLP, titled "Method and system
for generating an ontology"
see: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sec
t1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPT
O%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,027,948.PN.&OS=P
N/8,027,948&RS=PN/8,027,948 for
more details.
Thoughts?
(•`'·.¸(`'·.¸(•)¸.·'´)¸.·'´•) .,.,
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