SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL REASONING

摘要

Current virtual systems, however, are not aware of and do not consider many pieces of contextual, or implicit, information in responding to user requests. Examples of contextual information can include, in a vehicle context, accessibility needs for a parking request, or weather based information for covered parking, or parking closer to a requested destination venue. Such contextual information can be provided by a user settings file, or systems or sensors of a car, such as systems indicating a windshield wiper is running or headlights are activated, and the like. Determining contextual information can be applied to multiple application areas such as providing directions to the most appropriate destination given a user's preferences and sensed information from the vehicle. For example, the system can find covered parking in rain/snow conditions, as opposed to uncovered parking.