US 2019/0378500 A1 · TEMPORARY ACCOUNT ASSOCIATION WITH VOICE-ENABLED DEVICES

Abstract

Systems and methods for temporarily associating user accounts with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. A voice-enabled device, which may be associated with a default account, may be situated in an environment, such as a hotel room. A user may desire to utilize the voice-enabled device to perform one or more actions. In examples, some or all of the actions may require the use of a system resource not available to the default account. In these examples, the user may provide contact information to be used to send a message to personal device of the user to acquire user account information. Upon receipt of such information, the user account may be temporarily associated with the voice-enabled device, and may be dissociated from the voice-enabled device upon the lapse of a period of time and/or occurrence of a dissociation event.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first indication that a temporary association between a first account identifier of a user account and a device identifier of a voice-enabled device associated with an environment is established;
determining that a dissociation event associated with the voice-enabled device has occurred, the dissociation event representing at least one of lapsing of a period of time identified for maintaining the temporary association or receiving a second indication of the dissociation event from a system associated with the environment;
dissociating the first account identifier from the device identifier based at least in part on determining that the dissociation event has occurred;
and
associating a second account identifier corresponding to a default account with the device identifier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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