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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2016
Voicebox Technologies Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert A. Kennewick, Seattle, WA (US);
Chris Weider, Everett, WA (US);
VoiceBox Technologies Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for an integrated, multi-modal, multi-device natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, the environment may include a plurality of voice-enabled devices each having intent determination capabilities for processing multi-modal natural language inputs in addition to knowledge of the intent determination capabilities of other devices in the environment. Further, the environment may be arranged in a centralized manner, a distributed peer-to-peer manner, or various combinations thereof. As such, the various devices may cooperate to determine intent of multi-modal natural language inputs, and commands, queries, or other requests may be routed to one or more of the devices best suited to take action in response thereto.