Virtual assistant for media playback

RM Orr, DJ Mandel, AJ Sinesio, CJ Barnett - US Patent 11,010,127, 2021 - Google Patents
An exemplary method for identifying media may include receiving user input associated with
a request for media, where that user input includes unstructured natural language speech …

Intelligent device arbitration and control

K Piersol, RM Orr, DJ Mandel - US Patent 10,942,702, 2021 - Google Patents
US10942702B2 - Intelligent device arbitration and control - Google Patents US10942702B2 -
Intelligent device arbitration and control - Google Patents Intelligent device arbitration and …

Unconventional virtual assistant interactions

MR Vescovi, TAV GALVEZ, P Karashchuk… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
2016-07-13 Assigned to APPLE INC. reassignment APPLE INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: GRUBER, THOMAS …

Personalized prediction of responses for instant messaging

VKR Sridhar - US Patent 11,025,565, 2021 - Google Patents
At an electronic device with a display screen, display a message transcript, where the
message transcript includes an incoming message. Determine, based at least in-part on the …

Context-aware ranking of intelligent response suggestions

A Patel, JR Bellegarda - US Patent 10,417,266, 2019 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to provide a
set of predicted responses are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic …

Better resolution when referencing to concepts

RD Giuli, NK Treadgold - US Patent 10,083,690, 2018 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant programmed to refer to
shared domain concepts using concept nodes are provided. In an example process, user …

Low-latency intelligent automated assistant

A Acero, H Zhang - US Patent 10,789,945, 2020 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example
process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural …

Automatic speech recognition based on user feedback

M Krishnamoorthy, M Paulik - US Patent 10,446,141, 2019 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and processes for processing speech in a digital assistant are provided. In
one example process, a first speech input can be received from a user. The first speech …

Competing devices responding to voice triggers

BJ Newendorp, ES DiBiase - US Patent 10,311,871, 2019 - Google Patents
At a first electronic device with a display and a microphone: sampling audio input using the
first microphone; in accordance with the sampling of audio input using the first microphone …

Integration of semantic context information

NB Coccaro, PA Nguyen - US Patent 9,558,743, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Computer-based speech recognition techniques have used local contexts
(eg, previous 2 words uttered by a user) to predict a next word that a user is going to say. For …