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Google patents voice assistant method to fill in missing task details

This filing describes a system where a voice assistant identifies missing information needed to complete a user's request. It can automatically find answers to fill these gaps by querying a search engine and storing the results in a structured format called a frame.

Why it mattersThis could make voice assistants more capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks without requiring the user to manually provide every single detail.

In the filing’s own words

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using frames for performing tasks. One of the methods includes receiving a first request to perform a task, the first request comprising user speech identifying the task; generating a frame associated with the task, wherein the frame comprises one or more types of values necessary to perform the task, and wherein each type of value can be satisfied by a respective value; receiving a second request to provide information related to a question, the second request comprising user speech identifying the question; providing information identifying the question to a search engine, and receiving a response identifying one or more terms; determining that at least one term can satisfy a type of value necessary to perform the task; and storing the at least one term in the frame.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method implemented by one or more processors, comprising: receiving, based on user input provided at a client device, a request, wherein the request is to perform a task; determining, based on the request to perform the task, that performing the task requires one or more values; causing output to be provided for presentation to the user, via the client device, that solicits the user for one or more of the values required to perform the task; receiving additional user interface input provided at the client device responsive to the output that solicits the user for one or more of the values; identifying, based on processing the additional user input, one or more of the values required to perform the task; and causing the task to be performed utilizing one or more of the values that are identified based on processing the additional user input.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
USING FRAMES FOR ACTION DIALOGS
Publication number
US20260300421A1
Application number
19701142
Filed
Jun 8, 2026
Published
Oct 1, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 16/9538 Physics & computingG06F 3/167 Physics & computingG06F 16/243 Physics & computingG06F 16/3329 Physics & computingG06F 16/953 Physics & computingG06F 16/9535 Physics & computing
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