Patent ID: 7437292
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G06Q,G10L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A dialog system for a man-machine interaction having cooperating dialog devices, comprising: at least one terminal device, where a user inputs a user statement; at least one first switching device, which is connected to the terminal device; a plurality of dialog devices, which are assignable to the at least one first switching device and which, functioning in response to a user statement, are able to generate system messages; wherein the at least one first switching device includes: wherein the system message generated by a dialog device, functioning in response to a user statement, includes a system statement intended for the terminal device, an identification code identifying the dialog device, and/or an identifier, the identifier signals whether or not a system statement has been generated for a terminal device, or what quality the generated system statement has; and the second device of the first switching device has a detector device for capturing the identifier and the identification code of a system message, a memory for storing a priority list of the assigned dialog devices, and a decision device, which, using the stored priority list and the output signal from the detector device, selects the system statement of a specific dialog device in order to relay it to the terminal device.