Patent ID: 8768969
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing dialogue interaction involving a computer, to allow a user to complete information for a composite data entity, said method operating on a hierarchical representation of a set of composite data entities and storing said hierarchical representation in a memory of the computer, the hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of levels, each level corresponding to a respective attribute of the composite data entities and each level comprising one or more nodes, each node comprising a value for the respective attribute such that each composite data entity is represented by a path through the hierarchical representation to a leaf node, the method comprising: with a processor of the computer, iteratively performing acts, comprising, for each iteration: for a subsequent iteration, restricting generation, by the component, of the one or more prompts to the user, the component being restricted so as to generate the one or more prompts using the disambiguative portion of the hierarchical representation, wherein: