Patent ID: 7050976

Claim:
In a voice browser system arranged to execute voice-tag applications and to interface between voice tag applications and users, a method comprising: maintaining a navigation-history record that indicates a user's navigation history through at least one of the voice-tag applications via the voice browser system; maintaining a use-mode record that indicates whether the user is an expert-user of the at least one voice-tag application; automatically setting the use-mode record to indicate, per navigation point, whether the user is an expert-user or a standard-user of the at least one voice-tag application, based on the navigation-history record; automatically setting the use-mode record to indicate that, for all applications, the user is an expert-user in the event that the user is globally designated as an expert user for all applications that the voice command platform executes; and when executing the at least one voice-tag application, interfacing with the user according to the use-mode record.