Interactive Communication Action Elements to Reduce Dialog Turns

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication systems require numerous dialog turns and consume significant network and hardware resources, leading to reduced battery life and inefficient use of computational resources.

Innovation Solution

An interactive communications system that analyzes user and agent inputs during a session, determines the intent and action, and provides tailored output elements to enhance session functionality, reduce dialog turns, and optimize resource usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the system engages in traditional multi-turn dialog processing, then communication completeness is improved, but battery life deteriorates due to increased processing cycles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication completenessVSAvoidbattery life
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user input to predict potential follow-up questions and answers before the actual dialog turns occur. By pre-computing action performance elements and preparing response options in advance, the system reduces the number of processing cycles needed during actual communication, thereby conserving battery life while maintaining communication completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies or representations of complex dialog states through action performance elements. Instead of processing entire multi-turn dialog contexts, the system works with condensed action elements that capture essential information, reducing computational load and energy consumption while preserving the core communicative function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Loss of information

If the system processes numerous dialog turns, then communication thoroughness is improved, but computational resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication thoroughnessVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and separates the essential action performance elements from complex dialog contexts. By identifying and isolating key actions and their associated elements, the system processes only the critical components rather than entire dialog sequences, reducing computational resource consumption while maintaining communication thoroughness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments dialog processing into discrete action performance elements that can be handled independently. Each action element represents a self-contained unit of communication intent, allowing the system to process communications in modular fashion rather than as monolithic multi-turn sequences, thereby reducing overall computational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If the system provides detailed output elements for each dialog turn, then user assistance quality is improved, but network resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser assistance qualityVSAvoidnetwork resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides action performance elements selectively based on the specific needs of each communication context. Rather than generating detailed outputs for every possible dialog turn, the system delivers targeted assistance elements only when necessary to maintain user assistance quality, thereby reducing unnecessary network resource consumption while preserving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP3622392B1Facilitating user device and/or agent device actions during a communication session
Publication Date: 2025.10.08 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

Implementations are directed to facilitating user device and/or agent device actions during a communication session. An interactive communications system provides outputs, as outlined below, that are tailored to enhance the functionality of the communication session, reduce the number of dialog "turns" of the communications session and/or the number of user inputs to devices involved in the session, and/or otherwise mitigate consumption of network and/or hardware resources during the communication session. In various implementations, the communication session involves user device(s) of a user, agent device(s) of an agent, and the interactive communications system. The interactive communications system can analyze various communications from the user device(s) and/or agent device(s) during a communication session in which the user (via the user device(s)) directs various communications to the agent, and in which the agent (via the agent device(s)) optionally directs various communications to the user. The interactive communications system provides action performance element(s) and/or other output(s) that are each specific to a corresponding current intent and corresponding current action of the communication session.