Patent ID: 9489435
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G01C,G06F,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A method for operating a user interface, the method comprising: detecting a first user input; performing a confidence analysis, during which the first user input is compared with a plurality of stored database entries and each compared database entry is assigned a value of a confidence measure, which assesses a correspondence between the first user input and database entry; and generating different types of system responses that differ from one another in at least one feature, based on a result of the confidence analysis, wherein a first type of system response comprises, as a distinguishing first feature, a system output that requests a second user input, wherein a second type of system response comprises, as a distinguishing second feature, an automatic selection of a database entry, wherein a third type of system response comprises the first and second feature, the third type of system response automatically changing into the first or second type of system response after an elapse of a period of time, wherein, based on the result of the confidence analysis, the activation of a function based on a selected database entry occurs, wherein the activation of the function occurs based on a database entry having a highest confidence measure, and wherein the plurality of database entries are graphically displayed on a map and a separate table, the table comprising a first column listing the plurality of database entries and a second column listing the confidence measure for each of the plurality of database entries.