Virtual agent communication for electronic device

At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, perform a method of communicating using a virtual agent included on an electronic device, the method comprising:

• receiving, from the electronic device, an incoming communication triggered by the virtual agent included on the electronic device, the incoming communication including a request to share, with a second user, user information of a first user;
• determining, based on privacy information associated with the first user and based on an identity of the second user, whether the user information of the first user is shareable with the second user;
• and
• in response to determining that the user information of the first user is shareable with the second user, triggering output to the electronic device of an outgoing communication related to the user information of the first user.

An electronic device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method of communicating using a virtual agent included on the electronic device, the method comprising:
• receiving, by the virtual agent included on the electronic device, a free-form input from a first user;
• interpreting the free-form input from the first user using a natural language understanding (NLU) model to recognize a request from the first user to share, with a second user, user information of the first user;
• determining, based on privacy information associated with the first user, whether the user information of the first user is shareable with the second user;
• and
• in response to determining that the user information of the first user is shareable with the second user, triggering output from the electronic device of an outgoing communication related to sharing the user information of the first user with the second user.