Patent Document ID: 8612233
Application ID: 12985050

Base Claim:
1. A method for conducting an expert conversation, the method comprising: constructing a knowledge database comprising a dialogue repository comprising a plurality of dialogues, each dialogue representing a framework for creating at least one expert conversation and comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges extending between pairs of nodes; and using the dialogue repository in combination with a runtime dialogue system executing on a computing system and in communication with the knowledge database to conduct the expert conversation between the runtime dialogue system and a user based on a given dialogue selected from the plurality of dialogues by presenting comments and questions derived from nodes in the given dialogue to the user, inputting data from the user in response to the presented comments and questions and identifying appropriate edges at each node based on the inputted data, wherein the expert conversation comprises a directed acyclic graph constructed from the nodes and edges of the selected dialogue.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each node comprises an identifying text string comprising a subject for that node that identifies a region of the dialogue containing that node.