Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Recipient device presence activity monitoring for a communications session
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Application No.: US15385315Application Date: 2016-12-20
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Publication No.: US11722571B1Publication Date: 2023-08-08
- Inventor: Mario Chenier , Tony Roy Hardie , Nawdesh Uppal , Brian Oliver , Ran Mokady
- 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: H04L67/143
- IPC: H04L67/143 ; H04L65/1069 ; H04L67/306 ; G10L25/84 ; G10L15/18 ; G10L17/06 ; G10L15/22 ; H04L67/54

Abstract:
Methods and devices for causing a communications session between a first device and a second device to end based on lack of speech activity are described herein. In some embodiments, a communications between a first device and a second device may be initiated by the first device, where a first user account associated with the first device is authorized to initiate communications session with the second device by a second user account. After the communications session is started, audio data is received by a speech activity detection system, which determines whether the audio data represents speech or non-speech. If, after the communications session begins, non-speech is detected by the first device for more than a predefined amount of time, then the communications session is caused to end so that the first device is not capable of receiving video and/or audio associated with the second device.
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