Patent Document ID: 9275411
Application ID: 13478803

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a voice action system comprising at least one server computing system, a plurality of electronic voice action bids from a plurality of advertisers that each represent an offer for modifying the voice action system to include a voice action associated with an electronic voice action bid of the plurality of electronic voice action bids, wherein the voice action comprises a triggering phrase and an action; selecting, by the voice action system based on a predetermined criteria, one or more electronic voice action bids from among the plurality of electronic voice action bids; modifying, by the voice action system, data associated with the voice action system to include the voice action for each of the selected one or more electronic voice action bids, wherein the voice action system performs the action associated with the respective voice action responsive to voice input received from a user corresponding to the triggering phrase associated with the respective voice action; and setting, by the voice action system, a parameter in a voice action language model database to increase a likelihood that the voice action system determines that the voice input received from the user corresponds to the triggering phrase of the selected one or more electronic voice action bids, wherein at least one voice action bid comprises an offer for modifying the voice action system to include a voice action grammar associated with the voice action bid, wherein the voice action grammar comprises a plurality of voice actions, and wherein modifying the voice action system comprises, for each of the at least one voice action bids having a voice action grammar associated therewith that is selected, modifying the voice action system to include the plurality of voice actions associated with the voice action grammar.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the voice action system comprises the voice action language model database including words that the voice action system is configured to recognize as being associated with the triggering phrases of the selected one or more electronic voice action bids, and wherein the method further comprises, for each of the words of the triggering phrases for the selected voice action bids: determining if a word is included in the voice action language model database; and adding the word to the voice action language model database when the word is not already included in the voice action language model database.