Voice command for communication between related devices

• US 10,210,864 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2016
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Karimli, Yasmin, Nimbavikar, Gunjan
• Primary Examiner(s): Azad, Abul
• Application Number:
  US15/394,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20180190273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 704270, 704275, 704273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/063 Training
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/10 using distance or distortion measures between unknown speech and reference templates
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/04 Training, enrolment or model building
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/51 for comparison or discrimination
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions

Abstract

Methods and computing systems for enabling a voice command for communication between related devices are described. A training voice command of a user is processed to generate a voice command signature including a content characteristic and a sound characteristic. When the user wishes to transfer an on-going packet data session from a current device to a related device, the user inputs the same voice command. The voice command will be analyzed with the voice command signature to determine a correspondence before being executed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a training voice command of a user;

processing the training voice command to generate a voice command signature having a content characteristic and a sound characteristic;

associating the voice command signature with an executable command of inter-device communication between a first computing device and a second computing device based on the content characteristic and the sound characteristic, the executable command including a command to transfer an on-going packet data session that is occurring between the first computing device and a third computing device to the second computing device;

saving, as a saved voice command signature, the voice command signature, the saved voice command signature being configured to be retrieved in an inter-device communication event;

receiving, through a voice recognition device communicatively coupled to the first computing device, a candidate voice command;

retrieving the saved voice command signature;

analyzing the candidate voice command in relation to the saved voice command signature to determine a correspondence; and

causing execution of the executable command associated with the saved voice signature upon determining that the candidate voice command corresponds to the saved voice command signature.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the training voice command includes appending a randomly generated token to the training voice command to generate the voice command signature.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising registering the voice command signature as associated with the executable command with a server supporting the inter-device communication.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing includes applying a tolerance range in determining the correspondence.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the candidate voice command over the on-going packet data session operated on the first computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the candidate voice command includes pausing the on-going packet data session to activate a user interface.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing includes:

processing the candidate voice command to identify a candidate content characteristic and a candidate sound characteristic; and

comparing the candidate content characteristic and the candidate sound characteristic with the voice command signature.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the on-going packet data session includes at least one of a voice call, a video call, a live messaging interaction, or a downloading of media files.

9. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

a plurality of programming instructions stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors to implement;

a voice command processing unit configured to process a training voice command of a user to generate a voice command signature of the user, the voice command signature comprising a content characteristic and a sound characteristic;

an association unit configured to associate the voice command signature of the user with an executable command of inter-device communication between related computing devices, the executable command including a command to transfer an on-going packet data session that is occurring between the computing device and a communication device to at least one of the related computing devices;

a voice command receiving unit configured to receive, through a voice recognition device communicatively coupled to a first computing device of the related computing devices, a candidate voice command;

an analyzing unit configured to analyze the candidate voice command in relation to the voice command signature to determine a correspondence; and

an executing unit configured to cause execution of the executable command associated with the voice command signature upon determining that the received candidate voice command corresponds to the voice command signature.

10. The computing device of claim 9, wherein processing the training voice command includes appending a randomly generated token to the training voice command to generate the voice command signature.

11. The computing device of claim 9, further comprising a registration unit configured to register the voice command signature as associated with the executable command with a server supporting the inter-device communication.

12. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the voice command receiving unit further includes a voice command interface activation unit configured to activate a user interface to receive the candidate voice command.

13. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the voice command receiving unit further includes a voice command identification unit configured to identify the candidate voice command over the on-going packet data session operated on the first computing device.

14. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the analyzing unit is further configured to:

process the candidate voice command to identify a candidate content characteristic and a candidate sound characteristic; and

compare the candidate content characteristic and the candidate sound characteristic with the voice command signature.

15. The computing device of claim 9, wherein execution of the executable command includes transferring from a voice call between the computing device and the communication device to a video call between the computing device and the at least one of the related devices.

16. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

a plurality of programming instructions stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors to implement;

a voice command receiving unit configured to receive, through a voice recognition device communicatively coupled to the computing device, a voice command;

a retrieving unit configured to retrieve a voice command signature of a user, the voice command signature being associated with an executable command, the executable command including a command to transfer an on-going packet data session that is occurring between the computing device and a communication device to a related computing device;

an analyzing unit configured to analyze the voice command in relation to the voice command signature to identify a content characteristic and a sound characteristic of the voice command; and

an executing unit configured to cause execution of the executable command upon the analyzing unit identifying a content characteristic and a sound characteristic of the voice command.

17. The computing device of claim 16, wherein execution of the executable command includes transferring from a voice call between the computing device and the communication device to a video call between the computing device and the related computing device.