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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:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Roku, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ali Vassigh, San Jose, CA (US);

Saket Goel, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Dave Law, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Changchang Liu, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Eunsun Mota, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

ROKU, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4828 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2013.01); H04N 21/42203 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for processing voices searches over multiple content sources. Some embodiments operate by receiving audio input corresponding to a voice search from a user; performing automatic speech recognition of the audio input to obtain search parameters; executing a search having the search parameters over the multiple content sources to obtain search results; and displaying search results in categories in a manner customized to the user. The multiple content sources may include a principal content source, an active partner content source, and at least one non-active partner content source, where the active partner content source represents an active context. In some embodiments, the media device performs the receiving, performing, executing and displaying without exiting the active content.


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