US 10,832,677 B2Granted

Coordinating the execution of a voice command across multiple connected devices

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsJames E. Carey, Ryan K. Cradick, Cory J. Kleinheksel

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Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes exchanging device data, associated with a first participating user device, with the one or more second participating user devices; receiving audio data associated with a voice command; exchanging the audio data with the one or more second participating user devices; identifying, by the first participating user device, a voice command based on exchanging the audio data; determining which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices should respond to the voice command based on details of the voice command and the exchanging the device data; responding to the voice command based on determining that the first participating user device should respond to the voice command; and signaling a particular second participating user device to respond to the voice command based on determining that the particular second participating user device should respond to the voice command.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

exchanging, by a first participating user device, device data associated with the first participating user device with one or more second participating user devices;
receiving, by the first participating user device, audio data associated with a voice command;
exchanging, by the first participating user device, the audio data with the one or more second participating user devices;
forming, by the first participating user device, a combined audio data object based on the exchanging the audio data;
identifying, by the first participating user device, a voice command based on exchanging the audio data;
determining, by the first participating user device, which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices responds to the voice command based on details of the voice command and the exchanging the device data, the determining further comprising coordinating with the one or more second participating user devices to make a final determination as to which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices, responds to the voice command;
responding, by the first participating user device, to the voice command based on determining that the first participating user device responds to the voice command;
and
signaling, by the first participating user device, a particular second participating user device to notify the particular second participating user device to respond to the voice command based on determining that the particular second participating user device responds to the voice command.

6 more elements

A computer program product for improving the performance of recognizing and executing voice commands, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a first participating user device to cause the first participating user device to:

establish a communications link with one or more second participating user devices;
exchange, via the communications link, device data, associated with the first participating user device, with the one or more second participating user devices;
form a combined audio data object based on the exchanged device data;
receive audio data associated with a voice command;
determine which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices responds to the voice command based on details of the voice command and the exchanging the device data, the determining further comprising coordinating with the one or more second participating user devices to make a final determination as to which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices, responds to the voice command;
respond to the voice command based on determining that the first participating user device responds to the voice command;
and
signal a particular second participating user device to respond to the voice command based on determining that the particular second participating user device responds to the voice command.

5 more elements

A system comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a first participating user device;
program instructions to establish a communications link with one or more second participating user devices;
program instructions to receive audio data associated with a voice command;
program instructions to exchange, via the communications link, the audio data with the one or more second participating user devices;
program instructions to form a combined audio data object based on the exchanging the audio data;
program instructions to identify an enhanced voice command from the combined audio data object;
program instructions to determine which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices responds to the enhanced voice command based on details of the enhanced voice command;
program instructions to coordinate with the one or more second participating user devices to make a final determination as to which one of the first participating user device or the one or more second participating user devices responds to the voice command;
program instructions to respond to the enhanced voice command based on determining that the first participating user device responds to the enhanced voice command;
and
program instructions to signal a particular second participating user device to respond to the enhanced voice command based on determining that the particular second participating user device responds to the enhanced voice command,
wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/274,589Filed 13 Feb 2019 · continuation
Priority: 31 Mar 2017
Published: US 2019/0180749 A113 Jun 2019
Granted: 10 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
G10L 15/30
Constructional details of speech recognition systems: distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network…
G10L 21/0364
By changing the amplitude: for improving intelligibility
G10L 2015/223
Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue: execution procedure of a spoken command

Family

Application15/475,772Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Mar 2017
US 2019/0180749 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Jun 2019
US 10,255,917 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0286391 A1Published application
US 10,832,677 B2This patent

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