US 2026/0301738 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CONTEXTUAL INTERIM RESPONSES IN CONVERSATIONS MANAGED BY A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT SERVER

Abstract

A virtual assistant server executes a dialog flow associated with a use case determined from a user utterance received from a user device to generate an actual response to the user utterance. The virtual assistant server provides a prompt to a large language model (LLM) comprising: one or more instructions to the LLM to generate a plurality of interim responses to be transmitted to the user device, and input data required by the LLM to generate the plurality of interim responses. The virtual assistant server transmits one or more of the plurality of interim responses received from the LLM to the user device in an order determined by the LLM until the actual response is generated. Subsequently, the virtual assistant server transmits the generated actual response to the user utterance to the user device after the one or more of the plurality of interim responses are transmitted to the user device.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a user input from a user device as part of a conversation between the user device and a conversational artificial intelligence assistant;
executing, by the server, one or more backend steps to generate an actual response to the user input;
generating, by the server, one or more contextual interim responses corresponding to the one or more backend steps;
and
providing, by the server, the one or more contextual interim responses to the user device prior to transmitting the actual response to the user device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application

19/697,940Filed 4 Jun 2026

Priority

30 Nov 2023

Published

1 Oct 2026

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

G10L 15/183
Using natural language modelling: using context dependencies, e.g. language models
G10L 15/1815
Using natural language modelling: semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
G10L 15/30
Constructional details of speech recognition systems: distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network…

Systems and methods for using contextual interim responses in conversations managed by a virtual assistant server

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Systems and methods for using contextual interim responses in conversations managed by a virtual assistant server

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