Patent ID: 8086464

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to render a talking entity, the instructions comprising: A. generating a talking entity response to a user utterance; B. retrieving cached sentences associated with bridging delays in a dialog and cached templates for use with dialogs; C. if at least one of the cached sentences and the cached templates relates to the talking entity response: 1. using the at least one of the cached sentences and the cached templates to render at least a part of the talking entity response; and 2. receiving a portion of the talking entity response not stored in a cache at the computing device to render a complete talking entity response; D. if none of the cached sentences and cached templates relates to the talking entity response: 1. receiving the talking entity response to be rendered; and E. rendering the talking entity response on the computing device.