Patents by Inventor Scott Blanksteen

Scott Blanksteen 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).

  • Identifying a location of a voice-input device
    Patent number: 11455994
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying a location of a voice-controlled device within an environment. After identifying a location of the device, the device may receive a voice command from a user within the environment and may determine a response to the command based in part on the location, may determine how to output a response based in part on the location or may determine how to interact with the user based in part on the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Blanksteen
  • Identifying a location of a voice-input device
    Patent number: 10665235
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying a location of a voice-controlled device within an environment. After identifying a location of the device, the device may receive a voice command from a user within the environment and may determine a response to the command based in part on the location, may determine how to output a response based in part on the location or may determine how to interact with the user based in part on the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Blanksteen
  • Visual indication of an operational state
    Patent number: 10586555
    Abstract: Architectures and techniques to visually indicate an operational state of an electronic device. In some instances, the electronic device comprises a voice-controlled device configured to interact with a user through voice input and visual output. The voice-controlled device may be positioned in a home environment, such as on a table in a room of the environment. The user may interact with the voice-controlled device through speech and the voice-controlled device may perform operations requested by the speech. As the voice-controlled device enters different operational states while interacting with the user, one or more lights of the voice-controlled device may be illuminated to indicate the different operational states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Blanksteen, Gregory M. Hart, Charles S. Rogers, III, Heinz-Dominik Langhammer, Ronald Edward Webber