Automatic personal assistance between users devices

• US 8,995,972 B1
• Filed: 06/19/2014
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grandios Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Grandios Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US14/309,217
• Time in Patent Office: 285 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.3, 455/456.1, 455/569.2
• US Class Current: 455/414.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1822 Parsing for meaning understanding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/48 specially adapted for particular use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

Methods and systems are presented for providing automatic personal assistance on a user device (e.g., mobile phone). In some embodiments, a personal assistant on a first user device may respond automatically to a received input communication from a second user device. In some embodiments, the personal assistant may perform a local search of data stored on the first user device in order to retrieve data responsive to the received input. In some embodiments, the personal assistant may perform a local load of an entry into an application on the first user device in order to perform an action responsive to the received user input. In some embodiments, the automatic response may include sending a responsive output communication to the second user device. The automatic personal assistance may be customized based on user-editable automatic personal assistance settings.

Claims

1. A method for providing automatic personal assistance on a first user device, the method comprising:

receiving a voice-based input communication at the first user device, the input communication sent over a communication network from a second device;

executing instructions stored in memory, wherein the execution of instructions by a processor executes the first personal assistant on the first user device to;

activates an automatic mode of the first personal assistant,

automatically parses the received voice-based input communication to identify one or more keywords in the received voice-based input communication,

determines that the one or more parsed keywords are associated with a responsive action,

performs the identified responsive action, and

generates a voice-based output communication responsive to the voice-based input communication, wherein the voice-based output communication includes information associated with the performed responsive action; and

transmits the voice-based output communication over the communication network to the second device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the voice-based user input at a user interface of the first user device, wherein the user input is associated with automatic personal assistant settings, and wherein the automatic mode of the first personal assistant is activated based on the automatic personal assistant settings.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the automatic personal assistant settings specify types of received input communications for which the automatic mode of the first personal assistant can be activated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the responsive action comprises searching data stored locally in memory of the first user device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the information associated with the performed responsive action includes search results.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the searched data comprises contacts data.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the searched data comprises calendar data.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the searched data comprises geolocation data.

9. The method of claim 4, further comprising receiving the voice-based user input at a user interface of the first device, wherein the voice-based user input is associated with automatic search settings, and wherein the automatic search settings specify which of a plurality of local data sources are accessible for search by the first personal assistant.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the responsive action comprises creating an entry in an application on the first user device by loading data from the received input into the entry.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the information associated with the performed responsive action includes confirmation that the entry has been created.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the created entry comprises a calendar application entry.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein, the created entry comprises a reminder application entry.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving the voice-based user input at a user interface of the first device, wherein the voice-based user input includes is associated with automatic load settings, and wherein the automatic load settings specify for which of a plurality of applications the first personal assistant is allowed to create entries.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user device and the second user device are mobile devices.

16. A system for providing automatic personal assistance on a first user device, the system comprising:

a communication interface that receives a voice-based input communication at the first user device, the voice-based input communication sent over a communication network from a second device;

a processor that executes the first personal assistant on the first user device, wherein the execution of first personal assistant by the processor;

activates an automatic mode of the first personal assistant,

automatically parses the received voice-based input communication to identify one or more keywords in the received voice-based input communication,

determines that the one or more parsed keywords are associated with a responsive action,

performs the identified responsive action, and

generates a voice-based output communication responsive to the voice-based input communication, wherein the voice-based output communication includes information associated with the performed responsive action; and

wherein the communication interface transmits the voice-based output communication over the communication network to the second device.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising memory that stores data locally, wherein the responsive action comprises searching the locally stored data.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the responsive action comprises creating an entry in an application on the first user device by loading data from the received input into the entry.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising a user interface that receives user input regarding settings, and wherein the settings specify how the responsive action is identified or performed.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to provide automatic personal assistance on a first user device, the method comprising:

receiving a voice-based input communication, at a communications interface on the first user device, the input communication transmitted over a network from a second device;

activating an automatic mode of a first personal assistant on the first user device;

parsing the received voice-based input communication, by the first personal assistant, to identify one or more keywords in the received input communication, the one or more keywords associated with a responsive action, wherein the first personal assistant processes the received voice-based input communication automatically;

performing the identified responsive action, by the first personal assistant; and

generating a voice-based output communication responsive to the voice-based input communication, by the first personal assistant, wherein the output communication is transmitted over the network to the second device, and wherein the voice-based output communication includes information associated with the performed responsive action.