Patent ID: 8417529

Claim:
A method for prompting and processing user input for a multimodal interface, the method comprising: electronically rendering a visual interface for the multimodal interface, the visual interface comprising a plurality of concurrently displayed input regions; selecting an active input region of the plurality of concurrently displayed input regions; electronically rendering one or more visual indicia that distinguish the active input region from at least one non-active input region of the concurrently displayed input regions so as to cue a user regarding an expected multi-token speech input, the active input region comprising at least first and second input fields; generating an audio and/or textual prompt that identifies the active input region without listing the first and second input fields; and processing a user-provided multi-token speech input, the user-provided multi-token speech input comprising at least first and second values, wherein the first and second values respectively correspond to the first and second input fields.