Amazon Technologies, Inc. (20240404521). CONTEXT-BASED DEVICE ARBITRATION

CONTEXT-BASED DEVICE ARBITRATION

Organization Name

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Joseph White of San Francisco CA (US)

Ravi Kiran Rachakonda of San Jose CA (US)

Vinodth Kumar Mohanam of Santa Clara CA (US)

Lalithkumar Rajendran of Austin TX (US)

Deepak Uttam Shah of Milpitas CA (US)

Maziyar Khorasani of San Francisco CA (US)

Venkata Snehith Cherukuri of San Jose CA (US)

CONTEXT-BASED DEVICE ARBITRATION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240404521 titled 'CONTEXT-BASED DEVICE ARBITRATION

Original Abstract Submitted

this disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled 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 determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. if the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.