Patents by Inventor Deepak Uttam Shah
Deepak Uttam Shah 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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Publication number: 20230360650Abstract: Techniques for providing device functionalities using device components are described. A system receives a system-generated directive from a skill system and determines a workflow to execute. The system implements a response orchestrator that operates based on the workflow that includes interception points where cross-cutting functionalities can be invoked as pluggable components. The interception points occur pre-system-generated directive, pre-device-facing directive, post-device-facing directive generation, post-device-facing directive dispatch, and the like. The system supports asynchronous execution, conditional execution, and sequential execution of components. Data determined by the cross functionality components can be used by other components for processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Prashant Jayaram Thakare, Karthik Parameswaran, Deepak Uttam Shah, Prathyusha Nadella, Janita Shah, Venkat Chakravarthy, Michael Trinh
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Patent number: 11769506Abstract: Techniques for providing device functionalities using device components are described. A system receives a system-generated directive from a skill system and determines a workflow to execute. The system implements a response orchestrator that operates based on the workflow that includes interception points where cross-cutting functionalities can be invoked as pluggable components. The interception points occur pre-system-generated directive, pre-device-facing directive, post-device-facing directive generation, post-device-facing directive dispatch, and the like. The system supports asynchronous execution, conditional execution, and sequential execution of components. Data determined by the cross functionality components can be used by other components for processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Prashant Jayaram Thakare, Karthik Parameswaran, Deepak Uttam Shah, Prathyusha Nadella, Janita Shah, Venkat Chakravarthy, Michael Trinh
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Publication number: 20230188892Abstract: Systems and methods for contextual awareness in dynamic device groups are disclosed. For example, a dynamic device group may be generated while output of content is occurring. When a user provides user input to alter the output of the content, contextual data indicating the devices in the dynamic device group when the user input is received may be generated and utilized by an application to determine which devices are to receive a command to perform an action responsive to the user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Ratika Anand, Adit Jamdar, Liyun Xiu, Parathan Sivagnanasundaram, Saksham Papreja, Nidhi Mendiratta, Deepak Uttam Shah
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Patent number: 11600291Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for identifying a voice-enabled device from a group of voice-enabled devices to respond to a speech utterance of a user. A speech-processing system may receive an audio signal representing the speech utterance captured in an environment of a voice-enabled device, and identify another voice-enabled device located in the environment. The system may analyze the audio signal using a different natural-language-understanding model for each of the voice-enabled devices to identify an intent for each of the voice-enabled devices to respond to the speech utterance. The system may determine confidence scores that the intents are responsive to the speech utterance, and select the intent with the highest confidence score. The system may use the selected intent to generate a command for the corresponding voice-enabled device to respond to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gang Lan, Joseph Pedro Tavares, Deepak Uttam Shah, Mckay Clawson, Vijay Shankar Tennety, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri, Charles James Torbert
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Publication number: 20220215837Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Joseph White, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Vinodth Kumar Mohanam, Lalithkumar Rajendran, Deepak Uttam Shah, Maziyar Khorasani, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri
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Patent number: 11289087Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph White, Lalithkumar Rajendran, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri, Deepak Uttam Shah, Maziyar Khorasani, Vinodth Kumar Mohanam
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Publication number: 20200211554Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Joseph White, Lalithkumar Rajendran, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri, Deepak Uttam Shah, Maziyar Khorasani, Vinodth Kumar Mohanam
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Patent number: 10685669Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for identifying a voice-enabled device from a group of voice-enabled devices to respond to a speech utterance of a user. A speech-processing system may receive an audio signal representing the speech utterance captured in an environment of a voice-enabled device, and identify another voice-enabled device located in the environment. The system may analyze the audio signal using a different natural-language-understanding model for each of the voice-enabled devices to identify an intent for each of the voice-enabled devices to respond to the speech utterance. The system may determine confidence scores that the intents are responsive to the speech utterance, and select the intent with the highest confidence score. The system may use the selected intent to generate a command for the corresponding voice-enabled device to respond to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gang Lan, Joseph Pedro Tavares, Deepak Uttam Shah, Mckay Clawson, Vijay Shankar Tennety, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri, Charles James Torbert
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Patent number: 10546583Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph White, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Vinodth Kumar Mohanam, Lalithkumar Rajendran, Deepak Uttam Shah, Maziyar Khorasani, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri
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Publication number: 20190066670Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Joseph White, Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, Vinodth Kumar Mohanam, Lalithkumar Rajendran, Deepak Uttam Shah, Maziyar Khorasani, Venkata Snehith Cherukuri