Patent Document ID: 9710223
Application ID: 14875105

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: monitoring an audio stream associated with a non-tactile gesture input stream; identifying a speech event, in the audio stream, from a first user; determining a temporal window associated with a time of the speech event, wherein the temporal window extends forward and backward from the time of the speech event; analyzing, via a processor, data from the non-tactile gesture input stream within the temporal window to identify, based on the speech event, a non-tactile gesture event; identifying clarifying information, in the audio stream, about the speech event from a second user; applying the clarifying information to the speech event to yield a clarification; and processing, based on the clarification, the speech event and the non-tactile gesture event to produce a multimodal command.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the speech event is detected in the audio stream without an explicit user activation via one of a button press and a touch gesture.