Patent Document ID: 8037070
Application ID: 12146227

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of generating search queries based on digitized audio from conversations, the method executable by a computer including a processor and memory, comprising: providing a database stored in the memory containing a global hot-list comprising universal popular keywords or keyword phrases and containing a personalized entity list comprising keywords and keyword phrases used with a frequency above a determined threshold value in conversations involving a user; monitoring a conversation between at least two people, at least one of which is the user; identifying, by the processor, words or phrases in digitized audio of the monitored conversation through speech recognition; comparing, by the processor, the identified words or phrases to the keywords and keyword phrases in the database to find any matches; generating, by the processor, a search string, without the user requesting a search, based on words or phrases found to match the keyword or keyword phrases stored in the database; submitting, by the computer, the search string to a search engine as a search query; and serving, by the computer, a set of search results returned by the search engine based on the submitted search string to a display device of the user.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the personalized entity list comprises words selected from the group consisting of movies, contacts in an address book, favorite restaurants, favorite news types, favorite travel destinations, favorite foods, celebrities, and combinations thereof.