Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Makarand Damle

Olusanya Temitope Soyannwo

Rohan Mutagi

Adam Barry Fineberg

Roger Robert Webster

Stanislaw Ignacy Pasko

Mark Aran Aiken

Philip Alexander Lee

Vibhav Hemant Salgaonkar

Menashe Haskin

Jigar Vora

Aditya Bhave

Ankit Premrajka

A hub is configured to provide voice control without assistance from a remote system, which allows the hub to provide a user with the ability to control second devices in an environment by issuing voice commands, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet). The hub is also configured to execute rules without assistance from the remote system, which allows the hub to execute rules, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet).

Architecture for a hub configured to control a second device while a connection to a remote system is unavailable

Systems and methods for functionality management of devices are disclosed. Multiple computing devices may be located in the same environment and/or space and at least two of those computing devices may be configured to perform a given functionality. In these and other examples, one of the devices may be identified as a primary device and the other devices may be identified as secondary devices based on, for example, historical usage data, audio-signal data, computer-vision analysis, and/or one or more other criteria. The functionality may be disabled on the secondary devices until the secondary devices are utilized and/or until a triggering event occurs.

Functionality management for devices

A peripheral device includes a user interface and a battery. The peripheral device: accepts inputs from a user via the user interface; responsive to the inputs, and communicates with a base device by way of a wireless communication link. During intervals between the inputs, responsive to one or both of a usage characteristic of the user and an operational mode of the base device, the peripheral device adaptively manages power draw from the battery by switching between a normal mode and a power saving mode.

Adaptive battery life enhancer

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Makarand Damle