Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Mark Aiken

Amit Gupta

Caglar Iskender

Parth Narendra Acharya

Rohit Ravindra Patil

Jacob Charles Drilling

Ritu Jain

Michael Chorey

Vignesh Viswanat Natraj

Techniques for synchronizing device group data across different device control applications are described. A device group may include two or more smart home devices that may be controlled/supported by different device control applications. A user may set up device groups, including the same devices, in the different device control applications. A system may include a group synchronization service that synchronizes (e.g., merges) the multiple device groups across the different device control applications. The groups may be synchronized based on matching group names, matching devices included in the group, etc. After the device groups are synchronized, modifications made by the user to a device group in one device control application may be propagated to other device control applications.

Device group synchronization

Systems and methods for caching on-device commands utilizing utterance patterns are disclosed. For example, user utterances and resulting selected commands are analyzed to determine which utterances result in consistently-selected commands. Pattern data is generated indicating an association between these utterances and commands. The pattern data is stored in an on-device storage and utilized to select a command to be performed when the associated utterances are identified from audio data. When new features are developed for cloud-side services, a determination is made as to whether commands and utterances associated with the new features are candidates for utterance-to-command patterns, and corresponding pattern data may be sent to the on-device storages.

On-device commands utilizing utterance patterns

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Mark Aiken