Patent Document ID: 9886958
Application ID: 14966257

Base Claim:
1. A computing device comprising: at least one processor; and a memory for storing and encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor are operative to: receive an utterance from a user; extract features from the utterance to form extracted features; identify that the utterance is directed to at least one of a plurality of items previously provided by the computing device to the user utilizing a language independent disambiguation model, wherein the language independent disambiguation model identifies that the utterance is directed to the at least one of the plurality of items by: identifying as universal features one or more domain independent features and language independent features in the extracted features; determining an overlap between one or more universal features extracted from the utterance and one or more features associated with the plurality of items, wherein the one or more features are identified based on metadata associated with the plurality of items; and identifying the at least one of the plurality of items corresponding to the utterance based on the overlap; and send instructions to perform an action associated with the utterance upon identifying that the utterance is directed to the at least one of the plurality of items.

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Claim 12:
12. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of items is presented on a display, and wherein determining the overlap further comprises: determining a plurality of match scores between the universal features extracted from the utterance and the features associated with one or more of the plurality of items on the display; parsing the utterance for matching phrases between semantic words or phrases in the utterance and words or phrases in a title or property of the at least one of the plurality of items; and parsing the utterance to capture location indicators for predicting a screen location of the at least one item of the plurality of items.