Apple Inc.

Netapp, Inc.

Anumita Biswas

Benjamin S Phipps

Joshua V Graessley

Brandon J Newendorp

Jessica J Peck

Corey J Peterson

Karl Ferdinand Schramm

Gokul Nadathur

Gagan A Gupta

Kisun You

Matthias Paulik

Vijay Singh

Zaka Ur Rehman Ashraf

Sachin S Kajarekar

Henry Graham Mason

Chaitanya Mannemala

Jared S Grubb

Christoph Paasch

Gabriel Sanchez

Mahesh Ramaray Shanbhag

Peter Shah

Jason L Goldschmidt

Nicolas Zeitlin

Robert M Stewart

David J Chandler

Karric Kwong

Anshul Jain

Erik Marchi

Sinan Akay

Harry Simmonds

Saravana Kumar Rathinam

Andrew Byrne

Darren Haas

Minsub Lee

Sonny Son

Bill Berryman

Dave Noveck

Stephen H Shum

A device implementing a system for sharing a voice profile includes a processor configured to receive a request to share a first voice profile corresponding to a first user account associated with a first device, with a second device associated with a second user account, the second device being voice-enabled, the first voice profile being stored on a first data store associated with the first user account. The processor is further configured to update a second data store associated with the second user account to include a reference to the first voice profile stored on the first data store, and to send, to the second device, a notification that the second data store has been updated to include the reference to the first voice profile.

Multi-user devices in a connected home environment

Techniques are disclosed for coordinating interactions between a user device and a plurality of accessory devices. In one example, a user device receives information identifying one or more accessory devices in communication with the user device. The user device may implement accessory interaction instances for each of the identified accessories. A first accessory interaction instance can be associated with a first accessory among the identified accessories and receive a first audio input from the first accessory corresponding to a user request. The first accessory interaction instance can process a portion of the received audio input and receive a first response from a server computer. The user device may then transmit the first response to the first accessory device.

Techniques for communication between hub device and multiple endpoints

Systems and processes for providing a virtual assistant service are provided. In accordance with one or more examples, a method includes receiving, from an accessory device communicatively coupled to the first electronic device, a representation of a speech input representing a user request. The method further includes detecting a second electronic device and transmitting, from the first electronic device, a representation of the user request and data associated with the detected second electronic device to a third electronic device. The method further includes receiving, from the third electronic device, a determination of whether a task is to be performed by the second electronic device in accordance with the user request; and in accordance with a determination that a task is to be performed by the second electronic device, requesting the second electronic device to performed the task in accordance with the user request.

Virtual assistant operations in multi-device environments

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes receiving, from one or more external electronic devices, a plurality of speaker profiles for a plurality of users; receiving a natural language speech input; determining, based on comparing the natural language speech input to the plurality of speaker profiles: a first likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and a second likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a second user of the plurality of users; determining whether the first likelihood and the second likelihood are within a first threshold; and in accordance with determining that the first likelihood and the second likelihood are not within the first threshold: providing a response to the natural language speech input, the response being personalized for the first user.

Voice identification in digital assistant systems

Virtual assistant operation in multi-device environments

Systems and processes for performing a task with a digital assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving a natural-language input; determining, based on the natural-language input, a first task and first usefulness score associated with the first task; receiving, from another electronic device, a second task and second usefulness score associated with the second task; determining whether the first usefulness score is higher than the second usefulness score; in accordance with a determination that the first usefulness score is higher than the second usefulness score: performing the first task determined by the electronic device; and providing an output indicating whether the first task has been performed; and in accordance with a determination that the second usefulness score is higher than the first usefulness score: performing the second task received from the another electronic device; and providing an output indicating whether the second task has been performed.

Offline personal assistant

Techniques for electronic devices to control a multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) connection. An MPTCP connection between two endpoints may be established. The MPTCP connection may include at least one MPTCP subflow. At least one of the endpoints may be configured to act as a master with respect to the MPTCP connection. The master may perform one or more control operations on the MPTCP connection, while if one of the endpoints is not a master, that endpoint may not perform control operations on the MPTCP connection. The control operations may include initiating or establishing new MPTCP subflows or modifying a priority level of one or more MPTCP subflows of the MPTCP connection.

Multipath TCP subflow establishment and control

Robust Multipath TCP Stateless Connection Establishment.

Robust multipath TCP stateless connection establishment

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and computer program product that enables applications transferring data packets over a network to a multi-processing system to choose how the data packets are going to be processed by, e.g., allowing the applications to pre-assign connections to a particular network thread and migrate a connection from one network thread to another network thread without putting the connection into an inconsistent state.

Application-controlled network packet classification

This disclosure relates to techniques for electronic devices to identify application streams multiplexed onto a multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) connection using MPTCP signaling. According to one embodiment, an MPTCP connection may be established between an electronic device and a remote endpoint. Each of two or more application streams (each associated with a respective application) may be communicated between the two endpoints over the same MPTCP connection. MPTCP headers of MPTCP packets of each application stream may include application specific tags identifying the MPTCP packets of each application stream, respectively, as corresponding to their respective application stream.

Multipath TCP signaling with application specific tags

Techniques for supporting long-lived multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) sessions. An MPTCP session may be established between two endpoints. Application data may be communicated between the MPTCP endpoints over one or more MPTCP subflows of the MPTCP session. All MPTCP subflows may be terminated. MPTCP session state information may be maintained after all MPTCP subflows have been terminated. Thus, a zero-subflow MPTCP session may be maintained. Additional MPTCP subflows may subsequently be added back to the MPTCP session using the maintained MPTCP session state information.

Long-lived MPTCP sessions

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Anumita Biswas