US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 10 for "Resolving conflicting commands using hierarchy" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,065, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Resolving conflicting commands using hierarchy" was invented by Michael Patrick Shute (Niantic, Conn.), Siddhartha Sood (Ghaziabad, India), Suguna Kola (Hyderabad, India) and Gordan G. Greenlee (Endicott, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a method for controlling a device, a voice-controlled device, and a computer program product. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving a first command from a first user at a device and receiving a second command from a second user at the device, and determining, by a first ...