Patent ID: 9529505
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by an information appliance, the method comprising: receiving a verb-text input from a user and displaying the received verb-text in a user interface of the information appliance, wherein the information appliance is operable to invoke a plurality of commands in response to receiving command input from the user, and wherein receiving the verb-text input is not associated with any of the plurality of commands; receiving a user input selecting a portion of the displayed verb-text; after receiving the user input selecting the portion of the displayed verb-text, receiving a command input from the user that designates the displayed verb-text input as being command text; after receiving the command input, selecting a first command from the plurality of commands according to the command text; receiving a noun-text input from the user and displaying the received noun-text in the user interface, wherein receiving the noun-text input is not associated with any of the plurality of commands; and invoking the first command, wherein the first command uses the displayed noun-text as an operand.