Dynamic Digital Assistant Persona Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital assistants lack the ability to dynamically adjust their personas based on user preferences, environmental factors, and interaction with other digital assistants, limiting their effectiveness in providing personalized and context-aware interactions.

Innovation Solution

The method and apparatus for adjusting a digital assistant persona involve analyzing user input, determining user personas and deficiencies, and receiving promotional offers to dynamically adjust the digital assistant's behavior, information sharing, and interaction style.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If digital assistants use fixed personas, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to user preferences and environmental factors deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user preferencesVSAvoidpersona adjustment mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The digital assistant persona is made dynamic rather than fixed, allowing it to automatically adjust based on user preferences, environmental factors, and interaction context. The system continuously learns from user behavior patterns and adapts the persona characteristics in real-time, transforming the assistant from a static to a living entity that evolves with the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The digital assistant performs self-adjustment of its persona without requiring explicit user programming or configuration. The system autonomously analyzes user interactions, identifies preferences, and modifies its own behavioral characteristics, effectively serving itself rather than requiring manual setup or adjustment by the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If digital assistants provide more personalized information, then user engagement improves, but information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser engagementVSAvoidinformation processing
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where user responses and interactions are analyzed to refine and improve personalized information delivery. The digital assistant monitors user engagement metrics and adjusts its information processing algorithms accordingly, creating a self-improving system that enhances user engagement while managing processing complexity through intelligent feedback mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250182162A1Method and apparatus for adjusting a digital assistant persona
Publication Date: 2025.06.05 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P
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AI summary

A method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a first digital assistant to engage in a first communication exchange with a user of the first communication device where the first digital assistant has a first digital assistant persona that controls information provided by the first digital assistant during communication exchanges, analyzing user input during the first communication exchange, and adjusting the first digital assistant persona based on one or more of the user persona, user deficiency, or promotional offers. Other embodiments are disclosed.