Automatic assistant architecture for maintaining privacy of application content

Abstract

Implementations set forth herein relate to an automatic assistant that allows third party applications to inject dependencies to utilize automatic assistant functions. In addition, enabling such dependency injection can allow a third party application to maintain privacy of any application content used during execution of the automated assistant function. In some implementations, a third party application can initialize functions having assistant dependencies using parameters marked as private. Initializing a function in such a manner can allow abstraction of private content communicating between a third party application and an automated assistant for security purposes. Thereafter, the abstract content can be communicated to a remote server, such as a server hosting a widely trained machine learning model. The intelligent output provided by the server can then be incorporated into one or more processes of the third party application without compromising security.

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Background technique [0001] Humans may use interactive software referred to herein as "automated assistants" (also referred to as "digital agents", "chatbots", "interactive personal assistants", "intelligent personal assistants", "talking agents", etc.) application to participate in human-machine conversations. For example, humans (who may be referred to as "users" when they interact with an automated assistant) may use spoken natural language input (ie, utterances) that may in some cases be converted to text and then processed and / or through (eg, typed) natural language input to provide commands and / or requests. [0002] Various third-party applications can be loaded onto computing devices capable of providing access to the automated assistant, but such applications may not be able to take advantage of the automated assistant's benefits. Although many computing devices provide inter-process communication that allows applications to communicate with each other, utilizing res...

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Problems solved by technology

[0002] Ability to load various third-party applications onto computing devices capable of providing access to automated attendants, but such applications may not be able to take advantage of the benefits of automated attendants

Although many computing devices provide inter-process communication that allows applications to communicate with each other, utilizing resources in this manner can lead to excessive consumption of memory and processing bandwidth

For example, resource constraints and / or complexity of data can cause delays when running repetitive processes between applications, such as when attempting to fulfill application programming interface (API) calls

Additionally, processes running between applications may reveal vulnerabilities regarding security

Processes running between apps may exhibit vulnerabilities that make the privacy of some transactions difficult to maintain

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