Patent ID: 6513006
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: G10L,H04N

Abstract:
An information filtering system for a home network having at least one home components communicating therewith, comprising:a speech recognizer for processing speech input; a data store containing at least two electronic activity guides relating to different home component; a natural language parser in communication with said speech recognizer and operable to extract semantic information from the speech input, the natural language parser having a set of grammars that correlate to contents of at least one electronic guide associated with a first home component; a guide mapping module having access to the data store and operable to update the set of grammars with contents of an electronic activity guide associated with a second home component; and a dialog manager for filtering said electronic activity guides based on said semantic information and for providing a user with information regarding available activities in response to the user's input speech.