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Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Entefy Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alston Ghafourifar, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Mehdi Ghafourifar, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Philip Nathan Greenberg, San Diego, CA (US);

Neil Achtman, Mountain View, CA (US);

Brienne Ghafourifar, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

Entefy Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/066 (2013.01); H04L 51/20 (2013.01); H04L 51/36 (2013.01); H04L 69/18 (2013.01); H05K 999/99 (2013.01);
Abstract

A universal interaction platform that communicates with service providers and smart devices by receiving a message object that includes information indicative of a user intent for one of the service providers or smart devices to perform a function, determines the service provider or smart device that the user intends to perform the function, determines a protocol and format for communicating with the service provider or smart device, formats an instruction for the service provider or smart device, and outputs the instruction to the service provider or smart device.


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