ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,817, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Use of context to disambiguate automation-configuration command" was invented by Frank Maker (Livermore, Calif.), Yu-Cheng Lin (Golden, Colo.), Nicholas Alexander Lineback (Denver) and Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for use of context information to disambiguate an automation-configuration command. In an example method, a computing system receives a voice command uttered by a user into a voice-interface device, the voice command describing an Internet-of-Things (IoT) automation. Further, in response to receiving th...