ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,577, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Intelligent automated assistant for media exploration" was invented by David Chance Graham (Columbus, Ohio), Cyrus Daniel Irani (Menlo Park, Calif.), Aimee Piercy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Thomas Alsina (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, receiving a first natural-language speech input indicative of a request for media, where the first natural-language ...