- Patent Title: User task completion via open market of actions and/or providers
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Application No.: US13441898Application Date: 2012-04-08
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Publication No.: US09811850B2Publication Date: 2017-11-07
- Inventor: Steven William Macbeth , Michael William O'Connor , Zhaowei Charlie Jiang , Michael Van Snellenberg , Li Jiang , Shajib Sadhukha , Amit Kumar
- Applicant: Steven William Macbeth , Michael William O'Connor , Zhaowei Charlie Jiang , Michael Van Snellenberg , Li Jiang , Shajib Sadhukha , Amit Kumar
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06Q30/06 ; G06Q50/10 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for facilitating the completion of a user task. That is, user intent (e.g., intentions of a user to perform a user task) may be identified. The user intent may comprise an entity (e.g., a movie entity) and/or an action (e.g., an order movie tickets action) that the user wants to perform on the entity. A provider list may be created based upon one or more providers capable of performing the action on the entity (e.g., a movie application may be capable of performing the order movie tickets action on the movie entity). Providers may be dynamically selected for inclusion within the provider list at run-time. For example, an open market of providers may be maintained (e.g., providers may be added, removed, and/or updated over time), such that providers may be selected from the open market to complete user tasks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130268507A1 USER TASK COMPLETION VIA OPEN MARKET OF ACTIONS AND/OR PROVIDERS Public/Granted day:2013-10-10
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