Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Ilana Rozanes

Michael Richard Baglole

John Baker

Vinaya Nadig

Christopher Geiger Parker

Aparna Nandyal

Katherine Ann Baker

Ninad Anil Parkhi

Bradley Lyman

Eric Wei Hoong Ow

Tina Sonal Patel

Vishnu Jayavel

Sulman Riaz

Ryan Andrew Lathan

Hariharan Srinivasan

Using a method of operating a system that includes remote servers, and at least one electronic device, a user verbally instructs the electronic device to activate a function. The system uses the remote servers and other parts of the system to determine that the function is not currently enabled and requires a user-acknowledgment to terms of use before the function is enabled. The system provides information on the terms of use and solicits a user-acknowledgment to the terms of use. The user provides a verbal acknowledgment of the terms of use and the verbal acknowledgment is received and stored in a persistent data store.

Functional prerequisites and acknowledgments

Systems and methods for establishing a communications system between multiple electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, first audio data representing a first utterance may be received from an initiating device. A first user account associated with the initiating device may be determined. After determining that the utterance comprises an intent to communicate with a target, a list of entity names associated with the user account may be generated. Each entity name may represent a user contact associated with the first user account, a user device corresponding to the first user account, and/or a set of entity names representing user contacts and devices. Based on a relative comparison of each entity name to the target's name, an entity name may be selected from the plurality of entity names. A communications session may then be established between the initiating device and a device represented by the selected entity name.

Systems and methods for device communications

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Ilana Rozanes