Apple Inc.

Sumit Wattal

Benjamin S Phipps

Xinyuan Huang

Bryan Hansen

Nikrouz Ghotbi

Jaireh Tecarro

Yifeng Gui

Mahesh Ramaray Shanbhag

Eugene Ray

Lun Cui

Nicolas Zeitlin

Gennaro Frazzingaro

Vivek Sehgal

Pulah J Shah

Nilesh Karia

Harsh Fatepuria

Ian M Priestley

Luca Lupo

A device implementing a system for determining an answer to a question includes a processor configured to receive a question from a client device, and send the question to a first information domain comprising plural search subdomains, each of the plural search subdomains being configured to provide a respective candidate answer to the question in a format that differs from those provided by the other search subdomains of the plural search subdomains. The processor is further configured to receive, in response to sending the question, the candidate answer from each of the plural search subdomains, and provide at least one of the candidate answers to the client device, for providing an answer to the question based on the at least one of the candidate answers.

Accessing multiple domains across multiple devices for candidate responses

This relates to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to intelligent context sharing and task performance among a collection of devices with intelligent automated assistant capabilities. An example method includes, at a first electronic device participating in a context-sharing group associated with a first location: receiving a user voice input; receiving, from a context collector, an aggregate context of the context-sharing group; providing at least a portion of the aggregate context and data corresponding to the user voice input to a remote device; receiving, from the remote device, a command to perform one or more tasks and a device identifier corresponding to a second electronic device; and transmitting the command to the second electronic device based on the device identifier, wherein the command causes the second electronic device to perform the one or more tasks.

Digital assistant hardware abstraction

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Sumit Wattal