公开(公告)号：US20180061403A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15254458

申请日：2016-09-01

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Manish Kumar Dalmia ,  Tony Roy Hardie ,  Ran Mokady ,  Nick Ciubotariu ,  Sandra Lemon

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/02 ,  G10L15/18

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L15/30 ,  G10L21/06 ,  G10L2015/225

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for outputting visual indications regarding voice-based interactions are described. A first speech-controlled device detects spoken audio corresponding to a voice message to a second speech-controlled device. The first device captures the audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server performs speech processing on the audio data to determine a recipient and message content. The server then determines a second speech-controlled device associated with the recipient and sends the message content to the recipient's second speech-controlled device. Thereafter, the server receives an indication from the recipient's speech-controlled device that the second device is detecting speech, presumably in response to the original message. The server then causes a visual indication to be output by the first speech-controlled device, with the visual indication representing the recipient-speech controlled device is detecting speech.

公开(公告)号：US12267286B1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17099085

申请日：2020-11-16

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Neelesh Deo Dani ,  Roopali Vasant Kaujalgi ,  Gerardo Montoya Velazquez ,  Micheal Arokiaraj Alexis Ponniah ,  Qin Wang ,  Christo Frank Devaraj

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  G06F16/68 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/26 ,  H04L51/043 ,  H04L51/10 ,  H04L51/52

Abstract: Techniques for accessing shared content based on a recipient's subscriptions are described. A recipient user may receive a notification that a sender user shared content. The recipient user may request to output the shared content. The system may determine which content providers the recipient user is subscribed to, and may perform entity resolution processing to identify potential content, from the subscribed content providers, corresponding to the shared content. The system may output the identified potential content in response to the request to output the shared content.

公开(公告)号：US20240349595A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18754780

申请日：2024-06-26

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Samuel Scott Gigliotti ,  Scott Southwood ,  Ran Mokady ,  Hale Sostock ,  Roman Yusufov

IPC: H10K85/40 ,  C07D401/04 ,  C09K11/06 ,  H10K50/12 ,  H10K50/15 ,  H10K50/16 ,  H10K50/17 ,  H10K50/18 ,  H10K85/60

CPC classification number: H10K85/40 ,  C07D401/04 ,  C09K11/06 ,  H10K50/12 ,  H10K85/654 ,  H10K85/6572 ,  H10K85/6574 ,  H10K85/6576 ,  C09K2211/1029 ,  C09K2211/1044 ,  C09K2211/1059 ,  H10K50/15 ,  H10K50/16 ,  H10K50/171 ,  H10K50/18

Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.

公开(公告)号：US12057115B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-06

申请号：US17146997

申请日：2021-01-12

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Samuel Scott Gigliotti ,  Scott Southwood ,  Ran Mokady ,  Hale Sostock ,  Roman Yusufov

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L17/22 ,  H04L51/02 ,  H04L51/046 ,  H04L51/10 ,  H04L51/224 ,  H04L51/52 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/303 ,  H04L67/306

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/1815 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L17/22 ,  H04L51/02 ,  H04L51/046 ,  H04L51/224 ,  H04L67/1044 ,  H04L67/303 ,  H04L67/306 ,  G10L2015/223 ,  H04L51/10 ,  H04L51/52

Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.

公开(公告)号：US20240029722A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18475019

申请日：2023-09-26

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Neil Christopher Fritz ,  Lakshya Bhagat ,  Scott Southwood ,  Katelyn Doran ,  Brett Lounsbury ,  Christo Frank Devaraj

IPC: G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/30 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04M7/00 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G06F40/295

CPC classification number: G10L15/1815 ,  G10L15/30 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04M7/0042 ,  G10L15/1822 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G06F40/295 ,  G10L2015/088

Abstract: Audio data, corresponding to an utterance spoken by a person within a detection range of a voice communications device, can include an audio message portion. The audio data can be captured and analyzed to determine the intent to send a message. Based at least in part upon that intent, a remaining portion of the audio data can be analyzed to determine the intended message target or recipient, as well as the portion corresponding to the actual message payload. Once determined, the audio file can be trimmed to the message payload, and the message payload of the audio data can be delivered as an audio message to the target recipient.

公开(公告)号：US11812344B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US17345409

申请日：2021-06-11

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Vikram Kumar Gundeti ,  James Marvin Freeman, II ,  Benjamin Jones

IPC: H04W4/12 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W8/22 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G06T7/80

CPC classification number: H04W4/12 ,  G06T7/80 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W8/22 ,  G10L2015/088 ,  G10L2015/223

Abstract: A system that determines that devices are co-located in an acoustic region and selects a single device to which to send incoming notifications for the acoustic region. The system may group devices into separate acoustic regions based on selection data that selects between similar audio data received from multiple devices. The system may select the best device for each acoustic region based on a frequency that the device was selected previously, input/output capabilities of the device, a proximity to a user, or the like. The system may send a notification to a single device in each of the acoustic regions so that a user receives a single notification instead of multiple unsynchronized notifications. The system may also determine that acoustic regions are associated with different locations and select acoustic regions to which to send a notification based on location.

公开(公告)号：US20230216927A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-06

申请号：US18089974

申请日：2022-12-28

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Christopher Geiger Parker ,  Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar ,  James Alexander Stanton ,  Aaron Takayanagi Barnet ,  Venkatesh Kancharla ,  Gregory Michael Hart

IPC: H04L67/306 ,  H04M1/72433 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/42 ,  G10L15/26 ,  H04W4/80

CPC classification number: H04L67/306 ,  H04M1/72433 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  H04M3/53366 ,  H04M3/42238 ,  H04M2203/556 ,  G10L15/26 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04M2250/74

Abstract: Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.

公开(公告)号：US11632345B1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-18

申请号：US15475893

申请日：2017-03-31

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Brandon Taylor ,  Chris Parker ,  Ran Mokady ,  Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Nancy Yi Liang ,  Blair Harold Beebe

IPC: H04L51/216 ,  H04L67/306

Abstract: Systems and methods to prevent or diminish message thread explosion are disclosed. Message data sent between members of a communal profile and/or between members of multiple communal profiles may be consolidated into a single message thread, which may be displayed on devices associated with the members associated with of the communal profile(s). Consolidation of the message data into a communal message thread may allow users to more intuitively view conversations between members of their communal profile and/or between members of their communal profile and other communal profiles without viewing individual message threads between members of the communal profile(s).

公开(公告)号：US11264030B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16732943

申请日：2020-01-02

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Manish Kumar Dalmia ,  Tony Roy Hardie ,  Ran Mokady ,  Nick Ciubotariu ,  Sandra Lemon

IPC: G10L21/00 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04L51/224 ,  H04L51/10 ,  G10L15/30 ,  H04L67/306 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06F40/35 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for outputting indications regarding voice-based interactions are described. A first speech-controlled device detects spoken audio corresponding to recipient information. The first device captures the audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server determines a second speech-controlled device of the recipient and sends a signal to the recipient's second speech-controlled device representing a message is forthcoming. The recipient's second speech-controlled device outputs and indication representing a message is forthcoming.

公开(公告)号：US20210327434A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-21

申请号：US17358461

申请日：2021-06-25

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Tapas Kanti Roy ,  Brian Oliver ,  Christo Frank Devaraj

IPC: G10L15/30 ,  G10L17/22

Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing communication connections using speech, such as establishing calls between speech-controlled devices, are described. A first speech-controlled device receives a communication request in the form of audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server performs speech processing on the audio data to determine a recipient, a subject for the call, and a device associated with the recipient. The server then sends a message indicating the communication request and audio data corresponding to the communication topic to the recipient's speech-controlled device. The recipient device outputs audio to the recipient requesting whether the recipient accepts the communication request. The recipient audibly refuses or accepts the communication request, and the recipient's speech-controlled device sends an indication of the recipient's audible decision to the server. If the recipient accepted the communication request, the server causes a communication connection be established between the two speech-controlled devices.