Automatic personal assistance between user devices

• US 9,413,868 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2015
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• 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:
  US14/942,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20160072940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 267 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.3, 455/456.1, 455/569.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 via a first user device, the method comprising:

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

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

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

interprets the parsed one or more keywords as forming at least part of an information request that requests a first piece of information,

retrieves the first piece of information at the first user device in response to the information request, and

transmits a first dataset automatically from the first user device to the second user device, the first dataset including at least the first piece of information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information includes at least a phone number of a contact associated with the first user device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information includes a geographic location associated with the first user device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information includes an appointment time associated with a calendar appointment associated with the first user device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information includes an appointment time associated with a calendar appointment associated with the first user device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information includes a confirmation that a task has been performed at the first user device, the task identified in the parsed one or more keywords.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information is stored in the memory of the first user device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information is stored by a web service, and wherein retrieving the first piece of information at the first user device includes transmission of one or more digital communications between the first user device and the web service.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first piece of information is associated with a first software application stored in the memory of the first user device, and wherein retrieving the first piece of information includes executing the first software application by the processor of the first user device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first dataset includes the first piece of information encoded in an automated voice message that is generated by the first user device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first dataset includes the first piece of information encoded in an automated text-based message that is generated by the first user device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first dataset is transmitted as one of an e-mail message or a text message.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein voice-based input communication is at least a subset of a voicemail sent over the communication network from the second user device to the first user device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein voice-based input communication is at least a subset of a second personal assistant voice input, the second personal assistant voice input being a voice-based input to a second personal assistant associated with the second user device, the second personal assistant voice input sent over the communication network from the second user device to the first user device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user device and the second user device are electronic devices, wherein each electronic device is at least one of a mobile phone, a smartphone, a tablet device, a personal digital assistant, a netbook, a laptop, a handheld computing device, a portable computing device, a desktop computing device, a gaming device, a general purpose computer, or some combination thereof.

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

a communication receiver 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 user device;

a processor coupled to a memory and also coupled to the communication receiver, wherein execution of first personal assistant instructions stored in the memory by the processor;

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

interprets the parsed one or more keywords as forming at least part of an information request that requests a first piece of information,

retrieves the first piece of information at the first user device in response to the information request, and

transmits a first dataset automatically from the first user device to the second user device, the first dataset including at least the first piece of information.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a positioning device that identifies a geographic location of associated with the first user device using a global positioning system (GPS) process, and further wherein the first piece of information includes the geographic location associated with the first user device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the first piece of information is stored in the memory of the first user device.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the first piece of information is stored by a web service, and wherein retrieving the first piece of information at the first user device includes transmission of one or more digital communications between the first user device and the web service.

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

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

parsing the received voice-based input communication automatically to identify one or more keywords in the received voice-based input communication;

interpreting the parsed one or more keywords as forming at least part of an information request that requests a first piece of information;

retrieving the first piece of information at the first user device in response to the information request; and

transmitting a first dataset automatically from the first user device to the second user device, the first dataset including at least the first piece of information.