APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A PERSISTENT COMPANION DEVICE

A development platform for developing a skill for a persistent companion device (PCD) includes an asset development library having an application programming interface (API) configured to enable a developer to at least one of find, create, edit and access one or more content assets utilizable for creating a skill, an expression tool suite having one or more APIs via which are received one or more expressions associated with the skill as specified by the developer wherein the skill is executable by the PCD in response to at least one defined input, a behavior editor for specifying one or more behavioral sequences of the PCD for the skill and a skill deployment facility having an API for deploying the skill to an execution engine of the PCD. 种用于开发用于持久伙伴装置（PCD）的技能的开发平台包含：资产开发库，具有应用编程接口（API）,该应用编程接口（API）配置成使开发者能够进行下列中的至少个:发现、创建、编辑和访问可用于创建技能的个或多个内容资产；表达工具套件，具有个或多个API，经由所述API接收与如由所述开发者指定的技能相关联的个或多个表达，其中所述技能响应于至少个定义的输入而可由所述PCD运行；行为编辑器，用于为所述技能指定所述PCD的个或多个行为序列；以及技能部署设施，具有用于将所述技能部署到PCD的运行引擎的API。