US Patent 10552885 Systems and methods for acquiring structured inputs in customer interactions

A computer-implemented method and a system facilitate an acquiring of structured inputs from customers in turn-based online interactions. A UI displayed on a customer device and configured to facilitate a turn-based interaction between a customer and an agent facilitates receipt of a free-form textual input entered by the customer. The free-form textual input is indicative of an assistance desired by the customer from the agent. An interactive form including a plurality of questions is displayed within the UI to enable the customer to provide answers to one or more questions in a pre-defined format. At least one reply to be provided to the customer in response to the free-form textual input is determined based on the answers received from the customer for the one or more questions. The at least one reply is displayed within the UI for facilitating provisioning of the assistance desired by the customer.