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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:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Ryan Charles Knudson, Durham, NC (US);

Roderick Echols, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Russell Speight VanBlon, Raleigh, NC (US);

Jonathan Gaither Knox, Morrisville, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one sensor of an information handling device, environmental audio; receiving, at an audio capture device associated with the information handling device, a user query, wherein the user query comprises at least one deictic term; disambiguating, using a processor and by analyzing the captured environmental audio, the user query; and providing, based on the disambiguating, a response to the user query. Other aspects are described and claimed.


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