Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for associating electronic devices together based on received commands are described. Methods for associating an audio-controlled device with a physically separate device with different hardware capabilities such that commands spoken to the audio-controlled device that require the hardware capabilities of the physically separate device can be streamlined.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for associating electronic devices together based on received audio commands are described. Methods for associating an audio-controlled device with a physically separate display screen device such that information responses can then be provided in both audio and graphic formats using the two devices in conjunction with each other are described. The audio-controlled device can receive audio commands that can be analyzed to determine the author, which can then be used to further streamline the association operation.

Abstract: A receiver system of a wireless communication system comprising means for receiving and decoding of punctured convolutional codes and characterized by comprising a soft-decision processing unit adapted to receive a number of quantized signal soft-decision values spread across a range, the range having a maximum value, a minimum value, and a value corresponding to the center of that range; shift a number of signal soft-decision values by a shift step away from said center value; and quantize the signal soft-decision values with fewer bits than the number used to quantize the received signal soft-decision values according to a determined quantization input-output relationship.