US 11,989,115 B2
Agent-side chatbot simulator with throttling capabilities
Ramakrishna R. Yannam, The Colony, TX (US); and Martin Goettmann, Flower Mound, TX (US)
Assigned to Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on May 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/751,910.
Prior Publication US 2023/0385180 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/3664 (2013.01) [G06F 11/3688 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agent-side simulator for automated testing response performance of a chatbot, the simulator comprising computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, that when executed by a processor on a computer system:
receive a submission from a simulated test user;
determine a response configuration based on the submission; and
generate a simulated chatbot response based on the response configuration and thereby simulate interaction with the simulated test user;
wherein:
the submission is one of a plurality of submissions received from the simulated test user;
the simulated chatbot response is one of a plurality of simulated chatbot responses;
the plurality of submissions received from the simulated test user and the plurality of simulated chatbot responses collectively simulate a chatbot conversation; and
the response configuration associated with the chatbot conversation defines:
a speed at which each member of the plurality of simulated chatbot responses is provided after receiving a corresponding member of the plurality of submissions received from the simulated test user; and
an amount of data included in each member of the plurality of simulated chatbot responses.