Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Outputting notifications using device groups
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Application No.: US16569779Application Date: 2019-09-13
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Publication No.: US11051139B2Publication Date: 2021-06-29
- Inventor: Christo Frank Devaraj , Vikram Kumar Gundeti , James Marvin Freeman, II , Benjamin Jones
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Pierce Atwood LLP
- Main IPC: G10L15/22
- IPC: G10L15/22 ; H04W4/12 ; H04W4/08 ; H04W8/18 ; H04W8/22 ; G10L15/08 ; G06T7/80

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200092687A1 OUTPUTTING NOTIFICATIONS USING DEVICE GROUPS Public/Granted day:2020-03-19
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