Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Blackberry Corporation

Research in Motion Corporation

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Brian Alexander Oliver

Richard John George

Gregory Michael Hart

Tony Roy Hardie

Christo Frank Devaraj

Ran Mokady

Nicholas Alfano

Nawdesh Uppal

Andrew Michael Allen

Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar

Michael Martin George

Vikram Kumar Gundeti

Dalsu Lee

Mihal Lazaridis

Andrew Douglas Bocking

Lap Luu

Mario Chenier

Adrian Buckley

Vytautas Robertas Kezys

Douglas Michael Gisby

Paul Marcus Carpenter

Christopher Labrador

Tu Dien Do

Adrian Hurditch

Balaji Gopalan

Yiu Ming Lam

Tapas Kanti Roy

Justin Michael George

Reza Abdollahi

Dapeng Gao

Mark Pletsch

Michael Peter Montemurro

Jeffrey P Bezos

Samuel Scott Gigliotti

Rohit Prasad

Jae Pum Park

Jerome Alexander Rolia

Kevin John Oerton

Brian Edward Anthony McColgan

Adrian Michael Logan

John-Luc Bakker

Valentina Iqorevna Kramarenko

Eric Allan Fritzley

Joseph Patrick Thomas Goguen

Miranda Bing Ying Lim

Gibran Siddique

Maria Christine Renz

Balraja Subbiah

Susan Elizabeth Simon Daniels

David Milstein

Michael George Langlois

David Rafferty

Vinaya Nadig

Zhigang Ruan

Scott Gammon

Alan Panezic

Ian James McDonald

Iain A Kennedy

Christopher Schindler

Peter John Devenyi

Shawn Michael Banks

King Lung Chiu

Kapil Nayar

Eric Martin Ritter

Neil Barakat

Mark Andrew Gere

Nicholas Kalkouni

Roberto Gino Rasile

Norman Townsend

Anuj Kamra

Guilherme Trein

Darron Black

Xiang Wu

Adrien Montpellier

Sarang Anil Ozarde

Christopher Ayoup

Derek Fosbury

Techniques for using establishing a communication session using a third-party (3P) communications service are described. When a request is received to integrate the 3P service with a first-party (1P) service, a username and password associated with the 3P service are sent to it, and a contact list associated with the 3P service is received in return. When a user of a first device sends a request to communicate with a recipient, if the recipient is represented in the 3P contact list, the system sends a request to the second communication system to establish a communication session.

Multi-system communications

This disclosure describes, in part, context-driven device arbitration techniques to select a speech interface device from multiple speech interface 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 executing multiple pipeline instances to analyze audio signals and device metadata received from each of the multiple speech interface devices which detected the speech utterance. A remote speech processing service may execute the multiple pipeline instances and analyze the audio signals and/or metadata, at various stages of the pipeline instances, to determine which speech interface device is to respond to the speech utterance.

Context driven device arbitration

Systems and methods for establishing communication connections using speech, such as establishing calls between speech-controlled devices, are described. A first speech-controlled device receives a communication request in the form of audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server performs speech processing on the audio data to determine a recipient, a subject for the call, and a device associated with the recipient. The server then sends a message indicating the communication request and audio data corresponding to the communication topic to the recipient's speech-controlled device. The recipient device outputs audio to the recipient requesting whether the recipient accepts the communication request. The recipient audibly refuses or accepts the communication request, and the recipient's speech-controlled device sends an indication of the recipient's audible decision to the server. If the recipient accepted the communication request, the server causes a communication connection be established between the two speech-controlled devices.

Voice-controlled communication requests and responses

Methods and devices for causing a communications session between a first device and a second device to end based on lack of speech activity are described herein. In some embodiments, a communications between a first device and a second device may be initiated by the first device, where a first user account associated with the first device is authorized to initiate communications session with the second device by a second user account. After the communications session is started, audio data is received by a speech activity detection system, which determines whether the audio data represents speech or non-speech. If, after the communications session begins, non-speech is detected by the first device for more than a predefined amount of time, then the communications session is caused to end so that the first device is not capable of receiving video and/or audio associated with the second device.

Recipient device presence activity monitoring for a communications session

Methods and systems for providing message playback using a shared electronic device is described herein. In response to receiving a request to output messages, a speech-processing system may determine a group account associated with a requesting device, and may determine messages stored by a message data store for the group account. Speaker identification processing may also be performed to determine a speaker of the request. A user account associated with the speaker, and messages stored for the user account, may be determined. A summary response indicating the user account's messages and the group account's message may then be generated such that the user account messages are identified prior to the group account's messages. The messages may then be analyzed to determine an appropriate voice user interface for the requester such that the playback of the messages using a shared electronic device is more natural and conversational.

Message playback using a shared device

Systems and methods to combine related messages are disclosed. Multiple messages may be combined into a single message for display and output on one or more devices based on one or more factors. The factors may include, for example, a determination that the multiple messages were sent by and/or received from the same device, user, user profile, and/or user account. The facts may also include a determination that the multiple messages were sent within a threshold amount of time of each other and/or that the messages have the same or similar themes.

Message grouping

A system in which players participate as characters in a virtual game world via game clients executing on client devices. An observer mode is provided that enables users to navigate in the game world without requiring a game client so that a user can navigate the game world while not actively playing the game. When a user accesses the game in observer mode, a view of the game world is rendered from the viewpoint of an observer's character; the observer's character may not correspond to a character in the game and the observer's character may not be visible to the players in the game. The rendered view of the game world is streamed to a viewing application on a personal device. Navigation inputs allow the observer's character to move freely within the game world.

Non-player game communication

Systems, methods, and devices for privacy protection and user data obfuscation are disclosed. A speech-controlled device captures audio including a spoken command, and sends audio data corresponding thereto to a server(s). The server(s)determines a user that spoke the command. The server(s) also determines, based on a profile of the user, user data (e.g., age, geographic location, etc.). The server(s) determines user group data encompassing the user data (e.g., including an age range encompassing the user's age, a geographic area encompassing the user geographic location, etc.). The server(s) determines a remote device(s) storing or having access to content responsive to the spoken command. The server(s) sends the user group data to the remote device(s), receives output content responsive to the spoken command and tailored to the user group data from the remote device(s), and causes the speech-controlled device to emit the output content.

Intelligent privacy protection mediation

Devices and techniques are generally described for encoding video data based on motion cues. In some examples, a first frame of image data representing a first view of a physical environment may be generated. The camera may be moved by a first amount in a first direction. A second frame of image data representing a second view of the physical environment may be generated. Intra-frame motion may be determined by subtracting a first vector representing movement of the camera by the first amount in the first direction from a second vector representing motion between the first frame and the second frame. Motion vector data representing motion between the first frame and the second frame may be calculated based on the intra-frame motion. An encoded representation of the second frame of image data may be generated and sent to a second device.

Motion cues for video encoding

Techniques for detecting spam accounts in a system are described. The system may analyze speech characteristics of communication content (e.g., telephone call content, VoIP content, audio messaging, etc.) to determine whether multiple devices or user profiles are associated with overlapping communications. The system may also analyze text transcriptions of communication content to determine whether multiple devices or user profiles are associated with overlapping communications. If so, the system may mitigate, such as throttling service, disabling accounts, and the like.

Message aggregation and comparing

Techniques for managing notifications to be presented by user devices are described. In an example, a computer system associates a first user account with a user device and stores first data indicating that a notification about a communications session via a communications network system is prohibited. The computer system receives a request associated with the first user account for communications with another device via the communications network system. Based at least in part on the other device, the computer system generates second data indicating that the notification about the communications session is to be presented within a period of time of the communications session being requested. The computer system associates the first user account with the second data.

Setting overrides

Methods and devices for causing a communications session between a first device and a second device to end based on lack of speech activity are described herein. In some embodiments, non-speech may be detected for both the first device and the second device. If the non-speech associated with the first device is determined to occur at a substantially same time as the non-speech associated with the second device, then this may indicate that no individuals are talking within earshot of their respective devices. Furthermore, the non-speech detected by the first device and the non-speech detected by the second device may both be of an amount of time that is greater than a predefined temporal threshold. If so, then the communications session may be caused to end because speech activity has not been detected by either device for more than the predefined temporal threshold.

Ending communications session based on presence data

Described are systems, methods, and apparatus that enable constraint based communications between two or more devices. For example, a first user of a first device may submit a communication request to establish a communication session with a second user and provide a constraint for that communication session, such as a time-limit (e.g., limit the communication session to five minutes). In such an example, if the second user accepts the communication request with the constraint, a communication session is established and the system monitors the communication session to determine when a condition corresponding to the constraint has been satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, the communication session is terminated by the system.

Modifying constraint-based communication sessions

A method of interacting with an electronic device while the display screen is deactivated and the electronic device is possibly locked is described. In one embodiment, the electronic devices generate a notification regarding a new event and/or device state using a notification element in response to receiving a predetermined key input from the hardware keyboard while the electronic device is in the locked state and while the display screen is deactivated, wherein the notification is generated while the display screen remains deactivated.

Method of interacting with an electronic device while the display screen is deactivated

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Brian Alexander Oliver