ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,269, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Intent inference in audiovisual communication sessions" was invented by Paul Bates (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a user's intent can be inferred based on voice analysis during a communications session, and prompts can be presented, or other actions taken, at least partly in response to the inferred intent. For example, a network microphone device (NMD) having one or more microphones can capture voice input and transmit the voice input to remote computing device(s) for a communication session (e.g., a videoconference). The NMD can ana...