Response endpoint selection
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorScott Ian Blanksteen
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Abstract
A computing system has multiple endpoint computing devices in local environments to receive verbal requests from various users and a central or remote system to process the requests. The remote system generates responses and uses a variety of techniques to determine where and when to return responses audibly to the users. For each request, the remote system understands who is making the request, determines when to provide the response to the user, ascertains where the user is when it is time to deliver the response, discovers which of the endpoint devices are available to deliver the response, and evaluates which of the available devices is best to deliver the response. The system then delivers the response to the best endpoint device for audible emission or other form of presentation to the user.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- determining that a message is to be provided to a first user, wherein the first user is associated with at least a first device and a second device;
- receiving first data corresponding to at least one audio characteristic of a first environment of the first device;
- and
- based at least in part on the first data, causing output data corresponding to the message to be sent to the second device.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one computer-readable medium encoded with instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
- determine that a message is to be provided to a first user, wherein the first user is associated with at least a first device and a second device;
- receive first data corresponding to at least one audio characteristic of a first environment of the first device;
- and
- cause output data corresponding to the message to be sent to the second device based at least in part on the first data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.