MULTI-USER DEVICES IN A CONNECTED HOME ENVIRONMENT

Patent №

US 11,580,973

Granted

2023-02-14

Filed 2020

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16877390

A device implementing a system for providing content in response to a request includes a processor configured to receive a voice request for content associated with a home environment, the voice request corresponding to a user account, and determine, based on the voice request, not to provide the content via the device. The processor is further configured to select, in response to the determining, a second device from among multiple devices associated with the home environment, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on configuration settings associated with the home environment, and provide for the second device to output the content based on a profile of the user account.

SpeechG06F 3/167G10L 15/22G10L 15/26G16Y 40/35G10L 17/00G10L 2015/223

AI classification

Speech1.00
Planning0.08
Natural language0.02
AI hardware0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 527370446

Assignors

SUNDARAM, VIJAY, ALSINA, THOMAS, NADATHUR, ANUSH G.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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