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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael R. Sumner, Cary, NC (US);
Cameron Burgess, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ari R. Weinstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ross A. Freeman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael A. Gorbach, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Lynn I. Streja, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated digital assistant on an electronic device are provided. In particular, this paper describes the automatic registration of voice-activated shortcuts for a particular application at a vocabulary engine associated with the intelligent automated digital assistant. In some embodiments the automatic registration can be performed during installation or update of an application. Automatic registration can also be initiated after entry of particular types of data into the application or a determination that a particular feature of the application is being commonly used.