Patent attributes
Methods and systems are provided for generating personalized greetings for presentation by a personal digital assistant on a client device. An indication is received from the client device associated with the user that the personal digital assistant has been launched on the client device. User-specific information and contextual information is retrieved by querying a user profile database and one or more services. A personalized greeting engine utilizes the user-specific information, such as user inferences and interests, and the contextual information to generate the personalized greetings for presentation by the digital assistant on the client device.