Patent Document ID: 8494862
Application ID: 12086402

Base Claim:
1. A method for triggering at east one of a first background application and a second background application via a universal language dialog system, comprising: assigning transaction parameters to the first background application and the second background application, the transaction parameters comprising at least one first transaction parameter and at least one second transaction parameter, the assignment being determined on the basis of at least one user statement for triggering at least one of the first background application and the second background application, wherein at east one first transaction and the at least one first transaction parameter is assigned to the first background application and at least one second transaction and the at least one second transaction parameter is assigned the second background application; linking the at least one first transaction and the at least one second transaction to one another via a universal dialog specification and linking the at least one first transaction parameter and the at least one second transaction parameter to one another via the universal dialog specification; and assigning grammars to each of the at least one first transaction and the at least one second transaction; analyzing the universal dialog specification via the universal language dialog system in order to determine whether received voice data corresponds to any of the at east one first transaction, the at least one second transaction, the at least one first transaction parameter and the at least one second transaction parameter, wherein the determination of whether the received voice data corresponds to any of the at least one first transaction the at least one second transaction, the at least one first transaction parameter and the at least one second transaction parameter is for triggering at least one of the first background application and the second background application; and wherein transactions associated with the first and second background applications that have functional matches are linked to one another via the universal dialog specification; and wherein in order to determine a functional match between two transactions, the grammars assigned to the two transactions are compared to one another and a functional correspondence between the two transactions is or is not determined depending on a result of the comparison.

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Claim 6:
6. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least one of the at least one first transaction and the at least one second transaction is assigned at least one postcondition routine.