Patent Document ID: 8082153
Application ID: 12544473

Base Claim:
1. A method for conversational computing comprising: executing code embodying a conversational virtual machine; registering a plurality of input/output resources with a conversational kernel; providing an interface between a plurality of active applications and the conversational kernel processing input/output data; receiving input queries and input events of a multi-modal dialog across a plurality of user interface modalities of the plurality of active applications; generating output messages and output events of the multi-modal dialog in connection with the plurality of active applications; managing, by the conversational kernel, a context stack associated with the plurality of active applications and the multi-modal dialog to transform the input queries into application calls for the plurality of active applications and convert the output messages into speech, wherein the context stack accumulates a context of each of the plurality of active applications.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: managing the multi-modal dialog across the plurality of active applications and selecting an active dialog and a resource of an application of the plurality of active applications based on the input queries; managing and allocating conversational engines during execution of conversational tasks; coordinating and dispatching the conversational tasks; and accumulating the contexts of the plurality of active applications implementing an active discourse of a conversational task.