Patent ID: 11915697
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. An electronic device comprising:
a microphone configured to receive an input utterance;
a communication interface comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate with an external device;
a speaker; and
a processor,
wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to:
determine whether domain information and intent information are able to be extracted by analyzing the input utterance;
based on at least one of the domain information and the intent information not being extracted as a result of the determination, broadcast a signal requesting previous utterance related information to one or more external devices connected to a same network as the electronic device, and control the communication interface to receive the previous utterance related information from the at least one external device;
extract the domain information and the intent information based on the received previous utterance related information and the input utterance; and
control the speaker to obtain and output a response result based on the extracted domain information and intent information.