Patents by Inventor David Ross Bronaugh
David Ross Bronaugh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11429345Abstract: Techniques for remotely executing a secondary-device driver for generating commands for a secondary device are described herein. For instance, a secondary device (or “appliance”) may reside within an environment, along with a device to which the secondary device communicatively couples. The device may be configured to send control signals to the secondary device for causing the secondary device to perform certain operations. For instance, a user in the environment may provide, to the device, a request that the secondary device perform a certain operation. The device, which may lack some or all of a device driver associated with the secondary device, may then work with a remote service that executes the device driver for the purpose of receiving a command from the device driver and sending the command along to the secondary device. Upon receiving the command, the secondary device may perform the operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, Michael Dale Whiteley, He Lu, Brian James Butler, Fred Torok, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, David Ross Bronaugh, Christopher Ryan Nies, Shikher Sitoke
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Patent number: 11422772Abstract: Techniques for causing different devices to perform different operations using a single voice command are described herein. In some instances, a user may define a “scene”, in which a user sets different devices to different states and then associates an utterance with those states or with the operations performed by the devices to reach those states. For instance, a user may dim a light, turn on his television, and turn on his set-top box before sending a request to a local device or to a remote service to associate those settings with a predefined utterance, such as “my movie scene”. Thereafter, the user may cause the light to dim, the television to turn on, and the set-top box to turn on simply by issuing the voice command “execute my movie scene”.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, He Lu, Fred Torok, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, David Ross Bronaugh, Bo Li
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Publication number: 20210326103Abstract: Techniques for creating groups of devices for controlling these groups with voice commands are described herein. For instance, an environment may include an array of secondary devices (or “smart appliances”, or simply “devices”) that are configured to perform an array of operations. Users may request to create different groups of these devices, such that the users may control entire groups at a single time with individual voice commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Rohan MUTAGI, He Lu, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, Michael Dale Whiteley, Fred Torok, Shikher Sitoke, David Ross Bronaugh, Bo Li
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Patent number: 10976996Abstract: Techniques for creating groups of devices for controlling these groups with voice commands are described herein. For instance, an environment may include an array of secondary devices (or “smart appliances”, or simply “devices”) that are configured to perform an array of operations. Users may request to create different groups of these devices, such that the users may control entire groups at a single time with individual voice commands.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, He Lu, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, Michael Dale Whiteley, Fred Torok, Shikher Sitoke, David Ross Bronaugh, Bo Li
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Publication number: 20200159491Abstract: Techniques for remotely executing a secondary-device driver for generating commands for a secondary device are described herein. For instance, a secondary device (or “appliance”) may reside within an environment, along with a device to which the secondary device communicatively couples. The device may be configured to send control signals to the secondary device for causing the secondary device to perform certain operations. For instance, a user in the environment may provide, to the device, a request that the secondary device perform a certain operation. The device, which may lack some or all of a device driver associated with the secondary device, may then work with a remote service that executes the device driver for the purpose of receiving a command from the device driver and sending the command along to the secondary device. Upon receiving the command, the secondary device may perform the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, Michael Dale Whiteley, He Lu, Brian James Butler, Fred Torok, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, David Ross Bronaugh, Christopher Ryan Nies, Shikher Sitoke
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Patent number: 10453461Abstract: Techniques for remotely executing a secondary-device driver for generating commands for a secondary device are described herein. For instance, a secondary device (or “appliance”) may reside within an environment, along with a device to which the secondary device communicatively couples. The device may be configured to send control signals to the secondary device for causing the secondary device to perform certain operations. For instance, a user in the environment may provide, to the device, a request that the secondary device perform a certain operation. The device, which may lack some or all of a device driver associated with the secondary device, may then work with a remote service that executes the device driver for the purpose of receiving a command from the device driver and sending the command along to the secondary device. Upon receiving the command, the secondary device may perform the operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, Michael Dale Whiteley, He Lu, Brian James Butler, Fred Torok, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, David Ross Bronaugh, Christopher Ryan Nies, Shikher Sitoke
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Patent number: 10031722Abstract: Techniques for creating groups of devices for controlling these groups with voice commands are described herein. For instance, an environment may include an array of secondary devices (or “smart appliances”, or simply “devices”) that are configured to perform an array of operations. Users may request to create different groups of these devices, such that the users may control entire groups at a single time with individual voice commands.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, He Lu, Willy Lew Yuk Vong, Michael Dale Whiteley, Fred Torok, Shikher Sitoke, David Ross Bronaugh, Bo Li
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Patent number: 9747070Abstract: In a system in which an in-home audio device is supported by a network-based support service, certain aspects of the behavior of the audio device may be implemented as a state machine. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be provided by the support service to allow editing of a model representing the state machine of the device. Through the GUI, a user or developer can associate functions with states or state transitions of the state machine. In addition, the user or developer can associate custom code with individual states or state transitions of the state machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rohan Mutagi, David Ross Bronaugh, Willy Lew Yuk Vong