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Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pejman Dehghani, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sridhar Pilli, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4104 (2013.01); H04N 21/43635 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication system detects a state of a connected television. The communication system receives a request to establish a communication session with a local communication device via a network. The communication system outputs a reference audio signal to a locally connected audio output device. The communication system captures an ambient audio signal from a local microphone and compares the reference audio signal and the ambient audio signal to determine if the reference audio signal and the ambient audio signal match by meeting a similarity threshold. initiates an action with respect to the communication session based on the comparison.


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