{
  "patent_number": "US 11704899",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Assistant Systems Combine Information About One Thing from Many Places",
  "original_title": "Resolving entities from multiple data sources for assistant systems",
  "summary": "This patent describes a system that gathers all known information about a single person, place, or thing from various sources and combines it into one complete profile for an assistant system.",
  "what_it_does": "This method helps an assistant system provide a complete picture of an 'entity' (like a person or place) by combining information from multiple sources. When a 'client system' requests information about a 'first record' (Claim 1), the system identifies a 'globally unique entity identifier' linked to that record (Claim 1). It then finds other 'second records' also linked to this same unique identifier (Claim 1). All these related records are then 'deduped' and 'compiled' into a single 'fused record' (Claim 1), which is then sent back to the client system for presentation. For example, if you ask a voice assistant about a specific author, it could combine details from their book listings, social media profiles, and interview transcripts into one unified summary.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover combining data about an entity if there is no globally unique identifier linking the different records.",
    "Does not cover systems that link data but do not generate and present a single 'fused record' in response to a user request.",
    "Does not cover methods of combining entity data that do not involve a deduplication step to associate records with a unique identifier.",
    "Does not cover systems that simply store multiple records about an entity without actively compiling and presenting a unified view."
  ],
  "filed": "2020-09-11",
  "granted": "2023-07-18",
  "expires": "2040-09-11",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Meta Platforms",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/meta-platforms",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Markku Salkola",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/markku-salkola"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "ai_ml",
    "telecommunications",
    "consumer_electronics"
  ],
  "abstract": "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to access a first record in a plurality of records, where the first record describes a first set of attributes of a first entity, determining the first record is linked to a globally unique entity identifier, identifying one or more second records linked to the unique entity identifier, where the one or more second records describe one or more second sets of attributes of the first entity, generating a fused record comprising descriptions of attributes of the first entity from the first set and second sets of attributes, where the fused record is generated by deduping the plurality of records to associated the first record and the one or more second record with the unique entity identifier and compiling the first set and one or more second sets of attributes, and sending, in response responsive to the request to access the first record, instructions for presenting the fused record.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11704899/resolving-entities-from-multiple-data-sources-for-assistant-systems",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11704899/resolving-entities-from-multiple-data-sources-for-assistant-systems/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US11704899",
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