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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2021
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Christo Frank Devaraj, Seattle, WA (US);
Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Redmond, WA (US);
Gregory Michael Hart, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Southwood, Seattle, WA (US);
Ran Mokady, Seattle, WA (US);
Hale Sostock, Seattle, WA (US);
Roman Yusufov, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.