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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Bryan Hansen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikrouz Ghotbi, San Jose, CA (US);
Yifeng Gui, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Xinyuan Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin S. Phipps, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eugene Ray, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mahesh Ramaray Shanbhag, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jaireh Tecarro, Berkeley, CA (US);
Sumit Wattal, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.