Richard E Swan

US Patent:

20070179778, Aug 2, 2007

Filed:

Jan 16, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/623455

Inventors:

Li Gong - Columbus OH, US
Jie Weng - Sunnyvale CA, US
Samir Raiyani - Sunnyvale CA, US
Richard Swan - Portola Valley CA, US
Hartmut Vogler - San Mateo CA, US

Assignee:

SAP AG - Walldorf

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

704009000

Abstract:

A graphical user interface may include a form with a plurality of fields, each field associated with a predetermined category. Each category may have its own, independent, discrete grammar associated therewith, and the independent grammars may be individually activated, simultaneously with their respective categories. In this way, a voice-recognition system that is inputting spoken data for each of the fields may have a restricted grammar to search when attempting to match a particular voice input with an entry for a particular field in the form. Moreover, a global grammar that is active with any one of the independent grammars may be used to move between the fields or perform other high-level functionality not associated with any one of the independent grammars.