System for focused conversation context management in a reasoning agent/behavior engine of an agent automation system

A method of operating a reasoning agent/behavior engine (RA/BE) of an agent automation system, comprising:

• retrieving an episode frame tree set from a persona context database based on a time period;
• retrieving an overlay rule template from an overlay rule template database of the RA/BE;
• updating a current context of the RA/BE by overlaying the episode frame tree set based on the overlay rule template;
• and
• performing actions in response to a received user utterance based on the current context of the RA/BE.

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions of an agent automation system executable by one or more processors of a computing system, wherein the instructions comprise:

• instructions to receive intents/entities of a user utterance;
• instructions to recognize a context overlay cue in the intents/entities of the user utterance, wherein the context overlay cue defines a time period;
• instructions to retrieve an episode frame tree set from a persona context database based on the time period;
• instructions to retrieve an overlay rule template from an overlay rule template database associated with the agent automation system;
• and
• instructions to update a current context by overlaying the episode frame tree set based on the overlay rule template;
• and
• instructions to perform actions in response to the intents/entities of the user utterance based on the current context.