Dialog Tree Generation from Document Visual Structure

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional dialog systems require significant time, cost, and effort for manual development by human operators, necessitating an automated and efficient method for generating dialog trees.

Innovation Solution

An automated dialog tree generation system that includes a processor and memory to parse documents, extract visual design elements, generate a content structure, and create a dialog decision tree with a hierarchy of nodes, minimizing human editing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If human operators manually develop dialog systems, then the dialog systems can be created with high precision, but significant time, cost, and effort are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedialog system precisionVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of human operators creating dialog trees with an automated computer-based system. The system uses processors to automatically parse documents, extract visual design elements, generate content structures, and create dialog decision trees, eliminating the need for manual human labor while maintaining high precision through automated algorithms and machine learning models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The dialog system generation process becomes self-service through automation. The system automatically processes input documents, extracts necessary information, generates content structures, and creates dialog trees without requiring continuous human intervention. The automated pipeline enables the system to serve itself in generating dialog structures from provided documents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If human operators manually develop dialog systems, then the dialog systems can be created with high precision, but significant cost and effort are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedialog system precisionVSAvoiddevelopment effort
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of human operators creating dialog trees with an automated computer-based system. The system uses processors to automatically parse documents, extract visual design elements, generate content structures, and create dialog decision trees, eliminating the need for manual human labor while maintaining high precision through automated algorithms and machine learning models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If automated methods are used to generate dialog trees, then time and cost efficiency are improved, but the complexity of the generation system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedialog generation efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The automated dialog generation system is divided into distinct modular components: a document parser module that parses input documents into raw blocks, a visual design element extractor that identifies design elements from raw blocks, a content structure generator that creates content structures from visual elements, and a dialog tree generator that produces dialog decision trees from content structures. This segmentation allows each module to perform a specific function independently, managing overall system complexity while maintaining high productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Speed

If automated document parsing is used, then processing speed is improved, but the precision of extracting visual design elements may be affected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing speedVSAvoidelement extraction precision
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs automated computer-based processing to replace manual analysis, using algorithms and machine learning models to accurately identify and extract visual design elements from parsed document blocks. The system maintains precision through trained models that can recognize patterns and characteristics of design elements, achieving both high speed processing and accurate extraction simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12488180B2Systems and methods for generating dialog trees
Publication Date: 2025.12.02 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A dialog tree generation system is provided, including a processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to receive documents, parse the documents into raw blocks, extract visual design elements from the raw blocks, generate a content structure from the extracted visual design elements, generate at least a dialog decision tree based on the extracted content structure, the dialog decision tree comprising a plurality of nodes organized into a hierarchy, and output the dialog decision tree.