Patent ID: 11860913
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:
receiving, during a real-time dialog that is between a user and a system and that is via a computing device of the user, a chunk from a real-time dialog stream;
providing the chunk to a dialog mixer;
receiving current system response candidates for the chunk from the dialog mixer, the current system response candidates including:
a non-back-channel candidate that, when triggered, sets a new base state for the real-time dialog, and
a back-channel feedback candidate that, when triggered causes feedback, that represents that the system is listening, to be provided, and without setting any new base state for the real-time dialog;

determining to trigger the back-channel feedback candidate in lieu of other of the current system response candidates; and
in response to determining to trigger the back-channel feedback candidate:
causing the feedback, that represents that the system is listening, to be provided to the user via the computing device.