Creating scenes from voice-controllable devices
US11422772B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 28, 2019 |
| Grant date | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/223
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques for causing different devices to perform different operations using a single voice command are described herein. In some instances, a user may define a “scene”, in which a user sets different devices to different states and then associates an utterance with those states or with the operations performed by the devices to reach those states. For instance, a user may dim a light, turn on his television, and turn on his set-top box before sending a request to a local device or to a remote service to associate those settings with a predefined utterance, such as “my movie scene”. Thereafter, the user may cause the light to dim, the television to turn on, and the set-top box to turn on simply by issuing the voice command “execute my movie scene”.
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