AI Virtual Assistant Response Mode Configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional virtual assistants lack accuracy and clarity, leading to errors and poor user experiences due to their inability to effectively process and respond to user requests, especially in handling ambiguous or uncertain inputs.

Innovation Solution

Configuring artificial intelligence-based virtual assistants with multiple response modes, such as learning clarification and confident modes, to adapt their behavior based on user requests, data, and operational metrics, allowing for customizable settings and automatic mode transitions to enhance accuracy and user satisfaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional virtual assistant approaches are used, then the system is simple to implement, but accuracy and clarity of responses deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual assistant system is segmented into multiple independent response modes (e.g., default mode, clarification mode, confident mode) that can be selectively activated. Each mode operates with its own operational settings and workflow configurations, allowing the system to achieve high response accuracy through specialized handling of different request types without requiring complete system redesign.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically transitions between different response modes based on operational metrics, user requests, and contextual data. This dynamic adaptation allows the virtual assistant to optimize response accuracy for each specific situation while maintaining manageable system complexity through automated mode selection rather than manual configuration for every scenario.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple response modes with customizable settings are implemented, then adaptability to user needs improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user needsVSAvoidconfiguration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple response modes are implemented within a single virtual assistant system, each capable of handling different types of user requests with specialized operational settings. This multi-functionality approach allows the system to adapt to diverse user needs while maintaining a unified architecture that reduces overall configuration complexity compared to implementing separate systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes operational parameters dynamically by switching between predefined response modes, each with optimized settings for specific scenarios. This parameter-based adaptation allows high versatility in handling different user needs without requiring complex custom configurations, as the system can select from pre-optimized mode parameters based on operational metrics and request characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If response modes are configured based on operational metrics and user requests, then response accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Response modes and their operational settings are pre-configured and ready for immediate activation based on incoming user requests. The system performs preliminary classification of requests to determine the appropriate mode before full processing begins, avoiding time-consuming runtime analysis and configuration. This preliminary action ensures high response accuracy through appropriate mode selection while minimizing processing time through pre-established operational pathways.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses operational metrics and user feedback to dynamically select and adjust response modes in real-time. This feedback mechanism allows the virtual assistant to learn from past interactions and optimize mode selection, improving response accuracy over time while reducing processing time through increasingly accurate predictions of the appropriate response mode based on patterns in operational data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240202581A1Configuring artificial intelligence-based virtual assistants using response modes
Publication Date: 2024.06.20 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and computer program products for configuring artificial intelligence-based virtual assistants using response modes are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes configuring multiple response modes in connection with at least one artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant, each response mode corresponding to a respective set of operational settings for the at least one artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant; implementing, for the at least one artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant, one of the multiple response modes based at least in part on at least one user request submitted to the at least one artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant and one or more items of data associated with the at least one artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant; and configuring at least one workflow to be carried out by the at least one artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant in response to the at least one user request and in accordance with the implemented response mode.