Patent ID: 8914396
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from two user devices, a natural language search query associated with videos available via mobile video-on-demand, the natural language search query formatted according to a standard language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input; retrieving search results based on the natural language search query; transmitting the search results to the user devices; iteratively updating a finite state edit machine based on multimodal input, wherein the multimodal input is: received after the natural language search query; iteratively received from the two user devices to change search attributes of the natural language search query, to yield changed search attributes; formatted according to the standard language; interpreted using the finite state edit machine, the finite state edit machine enabling coupling of a stochastic language model for recognition with a deterministic finite state integration and understanding model, resulting in an updated finite state edit machine; and transmitting updated search results to the two user devices simultaneously, wherein the updated search results are based on the changed search attributes and updated finite state edit machine.