Patent Document ID: 9280610
Application ID: 13831669

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing a response to a user request, comprising: at a server computer with one or more processors and memory: receiving a user request from a mobile client device, the user request including at least a speech input and seeks an informational answer or performance of a task; detecting a failure to provide a satisfactory response to the user request; in response to detecting the failure, crowd-sourcing information relevant to the user request by querying one or more crowd sourcing information sources; receiving one or more answers from the crowd sourcing information sources; and generating a response to the user request based on at least one of the one or more answers received from the one or more crowd sourcing information sources.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the crowd-sourcing further comprises identifying, from a set of crowd sourcing information sources, the one or more crowd sourcing information sources to be queried.