US 10,380,208 B1Granted

Methods and systems for providing context-based recommendations

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsKintan Dilipkumar Brahmbhatt, Brandon Scott Durham, Kristine Anne Hanson, Charles Frederick Lee Thorp, Rickesh Pal, Ted William Thetford

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Abstract

Described herein are online services provided to users based on the current context information of the users. In particular, a user may interact with an interactive device to stream media content from a remote service provider. The user may provide commands to the interactive device using a voice command. The interactive device may transmit requests based on such user command. In order for the service providers to provide customized services, the interactive device can be configured to capture additional contextual data indicative of an environment of the user such as ambient sound and provide such contextual data to the service provider. The service provider can utilize such contextual data to generate content recommendations suitable to the current context of the request or command or user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

storing, at a service provider computing system, profile information for a user that includes at least user preferences, the user preferences indicating preferred types of media content to be played with respect to particular activities;
receiving, from a voice-activated device, a voice command requesting media content to be played by the voice-activated device;
receiving an ambient sound captured by the voice-activated device, the ambient sound being associated with the voice command;
determining, based on the voice command, the user from which the voice command was received;
determining a context of the voice command based at least in part on the ambient sound, the context indicating an activity in which the user is engaged;
determining, by accessing the profile information for the user, recommended media content based at least in part on the determined context and based on the user preferences with respect to the determined activity;
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providing the recommended media content to the voice-activated device to be presented by the voice-activated device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/981,273Filed 28 Dec 2015
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 16/635
Querying: filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 16/735
Querying: filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
G10L 15/20
Speech recognition: speech recognition techniques specially adapted for robustness in adverse environments, e.g. in noise, of stress induced speech