Patent Document ID: 8560325
Application ID: 13564596
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining an intended action of a user of a computing system environment, the computing system environment comprising a voice system, the intended action being specified via a spoken input of the user, the method comprising: obtaining a decoding of the spoken input of the user; and extracting the intended action from the decoding of the spoken input using an iterative hierarchical extraction process comprising analyzing the decoding of the spoken input in multiple hierarchically dependent semantic stages, comprising: determining a first level of classification of the intended action from the decoding of the spoken input during a first semantic stage of the iterative hierarchical extraction process, the first level of classification having a plurality of sub-classifications associated with the first level of classification; and determining, from among the plurality of sub-classifications associated with the first level of classification, a second level of classification of the intended action from the same decoding of the spoken input during a second semantic stage of the iterative hierarchical extraction process, wherein determining the intended action further comprises utilizing information about the user or the user's environment.