System and Method for an Iterative Disambiguation Interface

摘要

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for an iterative disambiguation interface. A system practicing the method receives a search query formatted according to a standard XML markup language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the search query being based on a natural language spoken query from a user and retrieves search results based on the search query. The system transmits the search results to a user device and iteratively receives multimodal input from the user to change search attributes and transmits updated search results to the user device based on the changed search attributes. The search results can include a link to additional information, such as a video presentation, related to the search results. The standard XML markup language can be Extensible MultiModal Annotation (EMMA) markup language from W3C. The system can generate an iteration transaction history for each multimodal input and updated search result.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a first user device, a first search query associated with videos available via mobile video-on-demand; receiving, from a second user device, a second search query associated with the videos; retrieving search results based on the first search query and the second search query; transmitting the search results to the first user device and the second user device; and iteratively:
updating a finite state edit machine based on multimodal input, wherein the multimodal input is iteratively received from the first user device to change search attributes of the search query, to yield changed search attributes; andtransmitting updated search results to the first user device and the second user device, wherein the updated search results are based on the changed search attributes.