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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2024
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Frank Maker, Livermore, CA (US);
Yu-Cheng Lin, Golden, CO (US);
Nicholas Alexander Lineback, Denver, CO (US);
Michael Cutter, Golden, CO (US);
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for use of context information to disambiguate an automation-configuration command. In an example method, a computing system receives a voice command uttered by a user into a voice-interface device, the voice command describing an Internet-of-Things (IoT) automation. Further, in response to receiving the voice command, the computing system determines, based on context information not specified by the voice command, which of multiple IoT devices should be a subject of an IoT rule that implements the described IoT automation, and provisions the IoT rule with the determined IoT device as the subject of the IoT rule. In example implementations, the context information could be based on network signaling between devices, ambient audio in the user's environment, and/or one or more other factors.