US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on Oct. 28 for "Expected next prompt to reduce response time for a voice system" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,462, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Expected next prompt to reduce response time for a voice system" was invented by Keith P. Braho (Murrysville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein relate to generating and/or employing an expected next prompt to reduce response time for a voice system. In this regard, a candidate audio signal is generated for a predicted prompt to be presented via a user audio device. Additionally, in response to audio response data provided by the user audio device, the predicted prompt is compared to a prompt associated with the au...