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Tap to initiate a next action for user requests

  • US 9,575,563 B1
  • Filed: 12/30/2013
  • Issued: 02/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method carried out by a head-mountable device comprising:

  • sending, a speech-segment message to a hybrid response system in response to detecting a first singular touch gesture on a touchpad of the head-mountable device (HMD),wherein the HMD comprises a near-eye display, and wherein the touchpad is located on a side-arm of the HMD,wherein the speech-segment message is indicative of a speech-segment detected in audio data captured at the HMD by at least one microphone, wherein the speech-segment is associated with a first user-account with the hybrid response system, and wherein the speech-segment message comprises an initial query;

    receiving, at the HMD, a response message from the hybrid response system, wherein the response message comprises;

    both (a) an answer to the initial query and (b) an indication of a next action to be cued in anticipation of the initial query, wherein the next action is an anticipated actionable follow-up request related to the answer of the initial query; and

    in response to receiving the response message;

    displaying, on the HMD, a first card interface that includes an indication of the answer to the initial query; and

    while displaying the first card interface that indicates the answer to the initial query, detecting touchpad data corresponding to a second singular touch gesture on the touchpad and responsively initiating the next action corresponding to the anticipated follow-up request originally indicated in the response message by displaying a second card interface of a cued next action.

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