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Dynamic skill handling mechanism for bot participation in secure multi-user collaboration workspaces

Grant US12580876B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventors

Chidambaram Arunachalam, Gonzalo Salgueiro, David deMilo, Kevin Elrod, Felipe De Mello, Carlos M. Pignataro

Abstract

A system and method for creating a context-aware, conversational chat bot or agent in multi-party conversations where participants have different levels of security access to information and the bot operates in one or more modes depending on the business context of the multi-user collaboration virtual workspace. The methods include adding a bot, as a participant, to a virtual workspace that is a multi-user collaboration workspace, obtaining, at a bot application server, context of the virtual workspace, setting, by the bot application server, a skill set for the bot from among a plurality of skill sets. The skill set varies based on the context of the virtual workspace. The methods further include configuring, by the bot application server, the bot to perform at least one task in the virtual workspace based on the skill set.

CPC Classifications

H04L 51/02 H04L 51/046 H04L 12/1818 H04L 12/1822 H04L 63/102 H04L 63/105

Filing Date

2023-10-18

Application No.

18489208

Claims

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