ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,588, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Voice query QoS based on client-computed content metadata" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Aleksandar Kracun (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an automated speech recognition (ASR) request from a user device that includes a speech input captured by the user device and content metadata associated with the speech input. The content metadata is generated by the user device. The method also includes determining a priority score for the ASR request based on the content metadata associated with the sp...