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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:
Apr. 16, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2018
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Gary Zhong, Milpitas, CA (US);

Milo Oostergo, Issaquah, WA (US);

Aakarsh Nair, Redmond, WA (US);

Jonathan Alan Leblang, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Collin Charles Davis, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 68/005 (2013.01); G06F 17/30766 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed related to determining a likelihood that a user is present in physical proximity to one or more computing devices based on factors such as detecting the user's voice, receiving beaconing signals from a user's mobile device, location information sent from other devices, input received via a camera, and/or other input at various devices that are geographically dispersed. Based on user presence information, a system may determine whether to broadcast a notification for the user to a given device for audible or visual presentation by the device.


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