Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Target-device resolution
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Application No.: US16134699Application Date: 2018-09-18
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Publication No.: US10909983B1Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Lizhen Peng , Sven Eberhardt , Akshay Kumar , Charles Edwin Ashton Brett , Sara Parker Hillenmeyer , William Evan Welbourne
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G10L21/00
- IPC: G10L21/00 ; G10L25/00 ; G10L15/22 ; G10L15/18

Abstract:
Systems and methods for target-device resolution are disclosed. A user may speak a user utterance requesting an action to be performed with respect to an accessory device, such as a smart-home device. The user utterance may include an identifier for the accessory device, but that identifier may not correspond to a naming indicator of an accessory device and/or may correspond to multiple naming indicators. In these examples, one or more models are utilized to identify which accessory device is most likely to correspond to the accessory device targeted by the user utterance for operation.
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