Patent Document ID: 7949537
Application ID: 12500718

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for interacting with a user in a spoken dialog system, the method comprising performing at least one of the following steps via a processor: in response to information from a user's single input communication in a spoken dialog system, generating a plurality of sentence plans, each sentence plan in the plurality of sentence plans being a realization comprising elementary speech acts each corresponding to a respective communicative goal and combined into at least one complete sentence that accomplishes a plurality of communicative goals and wherein each sentence plan of the plurality of sentence plans is a viable and potentially usable prompt in response to the user's single input communication; ranking the plurality of generated sentence plans; and presenting to the user a selected sentence plan from the plurality of sentence plans as a response to the user's single input communication.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining whether all of the communicative goals have been met; and processing any tasks associated with the information obtained from the spoken dialog system's interactions with the user if the determining step determines that all of the communicative goals have been met.