Patent Document ID: 7809564
Application ID: 11612060

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for matching voice based keywords to keyword indexed search items, the computer implemented method comprising: responsive to receiving a spoken search request from a caller, identifying keywords within the spoken search request; creating a list of candidates comprising a match to at least one of the keywords, wherein each candidate in the list is assigned a level of confidence in the match; locating keyword indexed search items having at least one of the keywords as an index and an original matching score; weighting the original matching score of each keyword indexed search item with the level of confidence in the list of candidates to form weighted matching scores; sorting the keyword indexed search items based on the weighted matching scores; and creating a list of the sorted keyword indexed search items.

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Claim 7:
7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the locating, weighting, sorting, and creating steps are performed by a search engine.