US 10,241,754 B1Granted

Systems and methods for providing supplemental information with a response to a command

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsSrikanth Doss Kadarundalagi Raghuram Doss, Jeffery David Wells, Richard Dault, Benjamin Joseph Tobin, Mark Douglas Elders, Stanislava R. Vlasseva, Skeets Jonathan Norquist, Nathan Lee Bosen, Ryan Christopher Rapp

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Abstract

Systems and methods for providing supplemental information with a response to a command are provided herein. In some embodiments, audio data representing a spoken command may be received by a cloud-based information system. A response to the command may be retrieved from a category related to the context of the command. A supplemental information database may also be provided that is pre-populated with supplemental information related to an individual having a registered account on the cloud-based information system. In response to retrieving the response to the command, supplemental information may be selected from the supplemental information database to be appended to the response to the command. A message may then be generated including the response and the supplemental information appended thereto, which in turn may be converted into audio data representing the message, which may be sent to a voice-controlled electronic device of the individual.

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Dependent claims

A method for sending supplemental information from an information system, the method comprising:

receiving, from an electronic device, audio data representing speech;
executing speech-to-text processing using the audio data to determine text data;
determining a command from the text data, wherein the command is a request for information;
determining a date that the audio data was received;
receiving a response to the command from a server, wherein the response comprises the information;
determining a user account associated with the audio data;
selecting, from a supplemental information database and based at least in part on user information corresponding to the user account, first supplemental information corresponding to a first expiration date;
selecting, from the supplemental information database and based at least in part on the user information, second supplemental information corresponding to a second expiration date;
determining a first difference between the date and the first expiration date;
determining a second difference between the date and the second expiration date;
determining that the first difference is less than the second difference;
generating, based at least in part on determining the first difference is less than the second difference, output text data that represents the information and the first supplemental information;
generating output audio data representing the output text data;
and
sending the output audio data to the electronic device.

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A method comprising:

receiving, at a first time, audio data representing speech;
receiving metadata associated with the audio data;
determining a user account associated with the audio data;
selecting, based at least in part on the metadata and information corresponding to the user account, first supplemental information and second supplemental information;
determining a first expiration time corresponding to the first supplemental information;
determining a second expiration time corresponding to the second supplemental information;
determining a first time difference between the first time and the first expiration time;
determining a second time difference between the first time and the second expiration time;
determining that the first time difference is less than the second time difference;
generating, based at least in part on determining the first time difference is less than the second time difference, output data representing the first supplemental information and response data corresponding to the audio data;
and
sending the output data to a user device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.