Providing content on multiple devices

• US 9,842,584 B1
• Filed: 04/29/2013
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hart, Gregory Michael, Bezos, Jeffrey P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ogunbiyi, Oluwadamilola M
• Application Number:
  US13/872,991
• Time in Patent Office: 1,688 Days
• Field of Search: 7042701
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/6827 for detection of mutation or polymorphism
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/6855 Ligating adaptors
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/6883 for diseases caused by alterations of genetic material
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 2600/112 Disease subtyping, staging or classification
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 2600/156 Polymorphic or mutational markers
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/06 Transformation of speech into a non-audible representation, e.g. speech visualisation or speech processing for tactile aids G10L15/26 takes precedence

Abstract

Techniques for receiving a voice command from a user and, in response, providing audible content to the user via a first device and providing visual content for the user via a second device. In some instances, the first device includes a microphone for generating audio signals that include user speech, as well as a speaker for outputting audible content in response to identified voice commands from the speech. However, the first device might not include a display for displaying graphical content. As such, the first device may be configured to identify devices that include displays and that are proximate to the first device. The first device may then instruct one or more of these other devices to output visual content associated with a user'"'"'s voice command.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a first device, a first voice command from a user;

at least partly in response to receiving the first voice command from the user, outputting audible content on a speaker of the first device, the audible content including at least a query result responsive to the first voice command and an audio indication of information regarding visual content that is associated with the query result and that is accessible by a second device;

receiving, at the first device and at least partly in response to the audible content, a second voice command from the user, the second voice command comprising a request, based at least in part on the audio indication, to present the visual content on the second device; and

at least partly in response to receiving the second voice command, instructing an application stored on the second device to output the visual content on a display of the second device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the audible content is synthesized speech.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the application is a companion application configured to receive instructions from the first device and display content associated with the first device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second voice command is received during output of at least a portion of the audible content by the first device.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

at least partly in response to receiving the second voice command, instructing a second application stored on a third device to output the visual content on a display of the third device.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising determining the second device proximate to the first device based at least in part detecting, at the first device, a wireless signal associated with the second device, wherein the audio indication includes at least an identity of the second device.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising querying the user to present the visual content on the second device, the querying including the audio indication, the audio indication including synthesized speech.

8. A device comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

a memory; and

an application stored in the memory and storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

receiving a request to present content associated with a voice command received at a second device, wherein the device and the second device are associated with a user, and wherein the voice command is received at least partly in response to an audio indication provided by the second device;

presenting, in response to receiving the request, initial content on the display, wherein the initial content is presented while the device is in a locked state;

receiving a request from the user to unlock the device; and

in response to receiving the request to unlock the device, presenting the content on the display, wherein the content presented on the display includes one or more query results associated with the voice command, wherein the initial content is different than the content.

9. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the application receives, from a third device, a request to present the content associated with the voice command received at the second device.

10. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein the content presented on the display is responsive to the voice command, as interpreted by the third device.

11. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the content presented on the display is responsive to the voice command, as interpreted by the second device.

12. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the content presented on the display includes multiple interpretations of the voice command as interpreted by the second device.

13. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the second device includes a speaker that outputs audio content associated with the voice command, and the content presented on the display comprises content that is additional to the audio content.

14. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the voice command comprises a first voice command;

and

the acts further include receiving a second request to present additional content on the display of the device, the additional content associated with a second voice command received at the second device.

15. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the voice command includes a query, and wherein at least partly in response to the query, a first portion of a query result is presented at the second device and a second portion of the search result is presented at the device.

16. A system comprising:

a first device, including;

a microphone to generate an audio signal representative of an utterance of a user, the utterance comprising a query to present information;

a speaker;

one or more first processors; and

one or more first computer-readable media storing first computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more first processors, cause the one or more first processors to perform acts comprising;

determining, based at least in part on the utterance, a second device proximate to the first device, the first device and the second device coupled to a same wireless network;

causing the speaker to output audio content associated with the utterance of the user, the audio content including at least an identity of the second device; and

causing the information to be provided to the second device, the information relating to the utterance of the user; and

the second device including;

a presentation component configured to present content associated with the information;

an application configured to receive instructions for presentation of the content;

one or more second processors; and

one or more second computer-readable media storing second computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more second processors, cause the one or more second processors to perform acts comprising;

presenting the content associated with the utterance of the user using the presentation component.

17. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the application is configured to receive the content from one or more remote computing resources.

18. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the content includes a textual representation of the utterance of the user.

19. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the content includes search results associated with the query of the user.

20. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the audio content comprises a summary of a content item and the audio content comprises additional content related to the content item.

21. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the content includes at least one link accessible by the application to obtain content.

22. The system as recited in claim 16, further comprising:

a third device, remote from the first device and the second device, the third device configured to receive the information from the first device;

identify the content based at least in part on the information; and

provide the content to the second device for presentation.

23. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the information is provided to a remote computing resource for speech recognition.