公开(公告)号：US10031722B1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-24

申请号：US14752198

申请日：2015-06-26

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Rohan Mutagi ,  He Lu ,  Willy Lew Yuk Vong ,  Michael Dale Whiteley ,  Fred Torok ,  Shikher Sitoke ,  David Ross Bronaugh ,  Bo Li

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/22

Abstract: Techniques for creating groups of devices for controlling these groups with voice commands are described herein. For instance, an environment may include an array of secondary devices (or “smart appliances”, or simply “devices”) that are configured to perform an array of operations. Users may request to create different groups of these devices, such that the users may control entire groups at a single time with individual voice commands.

公开(公告)号：US10453461B1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-22

申请号：US14752134

申请日：2015-06-26

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Rohan Mutagi ,  Michael Dale Whiteley ,  He Lu ,  Brian James Butler ,  Fred Torok ,  Willy Lew Yuk Vong ,  David Ross Bronaugh ,  Christopher Ryan Nies ,  Shikher Sitoke

IPC: G10L17/22

Abstract: Techniques for remotely executing a secondary-device driver for generating commands for a secondary device are described herein. For instance, a secondary device (or “appliance”) may reside within an environment, along with a device to which the secondary device communicatively couples. The device may be configured to send control signals to the secondary device for causing the secondary device to perform certain operations. For instance, a user in the environment may provide, to the device, a request that the secondary device perform a certain operation. The device, which may lack some or all of a device driver associated with the secondary device, may then work with a remote service that executes the device driver for the purpose of receiving a command from the device driver and sending the command along to the secondary device. Upon receiving the command, the secondary device may perform the operation.

公开(公告)号：US09984686B1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-29

申请号：US14752257

申请日：2015-06-26

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Rohan Mutagi ,  Willy Lew Yuk Vong ,  Michael Dale Whiteley ,  He Lu

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/02

CPC classification number: G06F3/167 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/265 ,  G10L2015/223 ,  H04L12/2816

Abstract: Techniques for defining a set of predefined device capabilities generally offered by available voice-controllable devices are described herein. Thereafter, as a particular user introduces new secondary devices into his environment and registers these devices, the techniques may identify the capabilities of the new device and map these capabilities to one or more of the predefined device capabilities of the set.