Unified semantic model of user intentions

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for improving a user experience, the operations comprising:

• generating a generic semantic model representing user behavior, the generic model comprising a plurality of nodes and edges, wherein each node represents a user characteristic and has an associated importance value, and wherein each edge defines a relationship between two nodes;
• observing an application executing on a computing device being used by a user;
• modifying, based on the observed application executing for the user on the computing device, one or more importance values associated with one or more nodes of the generic semantic model to create a user-specific semantic model representing the user;
• generating, based on the observed application executing for the user on the computing device, one or more importance objects, wherein the one or more importance objects are each associated with one or more target software objects stored in an object database;
• storing the user-specific semantic model and the one or more associated importance objects in a semantic model database;
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• in response to receiving a query of a particular target software object, determining, based on the user-specific semantic model and the one or more associated importance objects, a relevance of the target object to the user.

A system, comprising:

• one or more computers;
• and
• a computer-readable storage device coupled to the one or more computers and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computer, cause the one or more computers to perform operations for improving a user experience, the operations comprising:
• generating a generic semantic model representing user behavior, the generic model comprising a plurality of nodes and edges, wherein each node represents a user characteristic and has an associated importance value, and wherein each edge defines a relationship between two nodes;
• observing an application executing on a computing device being used by a user;
• modifying, based on the observed application executing for the user on the computing device, one or more importance values associated with one or more nodes of the generic semantic model to create a user-specific semantic model representing the user;
• generating, based on the observed application executing for the user on the computing device, one or more importance objects, wherein the one or more importance objects are each associated with one or more target software objects stored in an object database;
• storing the user-specific semantic model and the one or more associated importance objects in a semantic model database;
• and
• in response to receiving a query of a particular target software object, determining, based on the user-specific semantic model and the one or more associated importance objects, a relevance of the target object to the user.