Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Activation management for multiple voice assistants
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Application No.: US16419503Application Date: 2019-05-22
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Publication No.: US11189279B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Adina Magdalena Trufinescu , Alice Jane Bernheim Brush , Kevin J. Endres , Lisa J. Stifelman
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC
- Main IPC: G10L15/22
- IPC: G10L15/22 ; G10L15/08 ; G10L15/32

Abstract:
A system and method include detection of a user utterance of one of plurality of voice keywords, each of the plurality of voice keywords associated with a respective voice assistant application, determination, in response to the detection of the one of the plurality of respective voice keywords, of whether any of the plurality of voice assistant applications are designated as uninterruptable, and, if it is determined that none of the plurality of voice assistant applications are designated as uninterruptable, activation of the one of the plurality of voice assistant applications associated with the detected keyword.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200372907A1 ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE VOICE ASSISTANTS Public/Granted day:2020-11-26
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