Patent Document ID: 7917368
Application ID: 12036713

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for interacting with a user via a speech-based user interface, comprising the steps of: acquiring spoken input from a user in a form of a phrase of one or more words; determining, using a plurality of different domains, whether the phrase is a query or a command; and retrieving and presenting relevant items from a plurality of databases if the phrase is the query; and otherwise performing an operation if the phrase is a command, and wherein all possible items form a set of items, and further comprising: grouping items in the set into subsets of items, in which each subset of items forms one of the plurality of domains; retrieving the items from one or more of the plurality of domains in response to the query; and selecting a particular domain as most relevant to the query if the retrieved items are least likely to have been obtained by random draw from the entire set of items.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , in which the relevant items coming led in a combined result list.