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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Voicify, Llc, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Robert T. Naughton, Wellesley, MA (US);

Nicholas G. Laidlaw, Needham, MA (US);

Alexander M. Dunn, Boston, MA (US);

Jeffrey K. McMahon, Boston, MA (US);

Assignee:

Voicify, LLC, Boston, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 17/30991 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 2015/221 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

Among other things, requests are received from voice assistant devices expressed in accordance with different corresponding protocols of one or more voice assistant frameworks. Each of the requests represents a voiced input by a user to the corresponding voice assistant device. The received requests are re-expressed in accordance with a common request protocol. Based on the received requests, responses to the requests are expressed in accordance with a common response protocol. Each of the responses is re-expressed according to a protocol of the framework with respect to which the corresponding request was expressed. The responses are sent to the voice assistant devices for presentation to the users.


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