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Establishing a preferred mode of interaction between a user and a multimodal application

  • US 8,145,493 B2
  • Filed: 09/11/2006
  • Issued: 03/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of establishing a preferred mode of interaction between a user and a multimodal application, the method comprising:

  • evaluating, with at least one processor of a multimodal device comprising a multimodal application supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, a user modal preference, wherein evaluating the user modal preference comprises determining a modal coefficient value based, at least in part, on one or more modes of interaction used by the user in at least one previous interaction with a plurality of voice-enabled and/or non-voice enabled data entry fields presented by the multimodal application and evaluating the user modal preference based, at least in part, on the modal coefficient value; and

    dynamically configuring, with the at least one processor, multimodal content of the multimodal application in dependence on the user modal preference;

    wherein the multimodal application comprises a plurality of static markup documents, wherein the plurality of static markup documents comprises documents having different proportions of support for voice mode and non-voice modes;

    wherein dynamically configuring multimodal content of the multimodal application further comprises selecting from among the plurality of static markup documents, in dependence upon the value of the user modal preference, a markup document for presentation to a user as part of the multimodal application.

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