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US 10,049,663 B2Granted
Intelligent automated assistant for media exploration
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsRyan M. Orr, Matthew P. Bernardo, Daniel J. Mandel
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Abstract
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to explore media items are provided. In one example process, a speech input representing a request for one or more media items is received from a user. The process determines whether the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items. In response to determining that the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items, at least one media item is obtained from a user-specific corpus of media items. The user-specific corpus of media items is generate based on data associated with the user. The at least one media item is provided.
Claims29
A system for operating a digital assistant to explore media items, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive, from a user, speech input representing a request for one or more media items;
- evaluate a text representation of the speech input against a set of rules to determine whether or not the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items, wherein the evaluating includes determining an actionable intent node by analyzing words in the text representation against words of a vocabulary index associated with a plurality of actionable intent nodes, and wherein the set of rules includes a first rule that the actionable intent node corresponds to an actionable intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items and a second rule that one or more words in the text representation refers to the user;
- in accordance with a determination that the text representation satisfies the set of rules:
- obtain at least one media item from a user-specific corpus of media items, the user-specific corpus of media items generated according to inferred media preferences of the user;
- and
- provide the at least one media item from the user-specific corpus of media items;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the text representation does not satisfy the set of rules:
- obtain at least one media item from a general corpus of media items, the general corpus of media items generated according to inferred media preferences of a plurality of users;
- and
- provide the at least one media item from the general corpus of media items.
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A method for operating a digital assistant to explore media items, the method comprising:
- at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory:
- receiving, from a user, speech input representing a request for one or more media items;
- evaluating a text representation of the speech input against a set of rules to determine whether or not the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items, wherein the evaluating includes determining an actionable intent node by analyzing words in the text representation against words of a vocabulary index associated with a plurality of actionable intent nodes, and wherein the set of rules includes a first rule that the actionable intent node corresponds to an actionable intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items and a second rule that one or more words in the text representation refers to the user;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the text representation satisfies the set of rules:
- obtaining at least one media item from a user-specific corpus of media items, the user-specific corpus of media items generated according to inferred media preferences of the user;
- and
- providing the at least one media item from the user-specific corpus of media items;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the text representation does not satisfy the set of rules:
- obtaining at least one media item from a general corpus of media items, the general corpus of media items generated according to inferred media preferences of a plurality of users;
- and
- providing the at least one media item from the general corpus of media items.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive, from a user, speech input representing a request for one or more media items;
- evaluate a text representation of the speech input against a set of rules to determine whether or not the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items, wherein the evaluating includes determining an actionable intent node by analyzing words in the text representation against words of a vocabulary index associated with a plurality of actionable intent nodes, and wherein the set of rules includes a first rule that the actionable intent node corresponds to an actionable intent of obtaining personalized recommendations for media items and a second rule that one or more words in the text representation refers to the user;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the text representation satisfies the set of rules:
- obtain at least one media item from a user-specific corpus of media items, the user-specific corpus of media items generated according to inferred media preferences of the user;
- and
- provide the at least one media item from the user-specific corpus of media items;
- and
- in accordance with a determination that the text representation does not satisfy the set of rules:
- obtain at least one media item from a general corpus of media items, the general corpus of media items generated according to inferred media preferences of a plurality of users;
- and
- provide the at least one media item from the general corpus of media items.
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