ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,435, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Context driven device arbitration" was invented by Tony Roy Hardie (Seattle), Brian Alexander Oliver (Seattle) and Vikram Kumar Gundeti (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, context-driven device arbitration techniques to select a speech interface device from multiple speech interface devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include executing multiple pipeline instances to analyze audio signals and device m...