Universal voice assistant
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsArsham Hatambeiki, Haiming Huang, Nicu Ahmadi, Rex Xu, Wesley Millora, Steven McAllister
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Abstract
Described are systems and methods for enabling voice interaction with appliances, services (e.g., media streaming services, gaming services, news feed services, social platform services, etc.), and the like by way of appropriate supplied apps (also referred to as “skills,” “actions,” or the like) which may be presented or downloaded to a smart device having associated therewith one or more cloud-based voice service platforms.
Claims13
A non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions wherein the instructions, when executed by a device having an associated token reader, an associated output device, and an associated input device, cause the device to perform steps comprising:
- using first data received from a token as read by the token reader to cause a second data usable to present a product promotion to a user to be retrieved from a memory store accessible to the device;
- using the second data retrieved from the memory store accessible to the device to cause the product promotion to be presented to the user via use of the output device;
- receiving via use of the input device a third data related to the product promotion;
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- causing the third data to be transmitted via a network connection to a vendor associated with the product promotion to allow a purchase of a product being promoted via use of the product promotion to be completed;
- wherein the product comprises a streaming media product and the instructions further cause the device to receive the product via the network from a server associated with the vendor and to cause the product to be presented to the user via use of the output device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.