US Patent Issued to DISH Network on July 22 for "Systems and methods for facilitating voice interaction with content receivers" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,921, issued on July 22, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating voice interaction with content receivers" was invented by Brandon Hines (Owasso, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content receiver systems, methods, and machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive voice interaction are disclosed. An audio cue may be detected and mapped to a first viewer in proximity of an audio sensor. Sensor-based data that is based on the audio sensor capturing audio phenomena in the proximity may be received. A set of rules specified by an operations protocol may be accessed. The set of rules ma...