Patent ID: 11869505
Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A local assistant system for responding to voice input, comprising:
an ear-wearable device comprising a first speaker, a first microphone, a first processor, a first memory storage, a first wireless communication device, and a sensor configured to detect biological information about a wearer of the ear-wearable device;
a gateway device comprising a gateway processor, a gateway memory storage, and a first gateway wireless communication device for communicating with the ear-wearable device;
detection circuitry programmed to detect a wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal comprises one or more keywords in an audio input stream;
input circuitry programmed to, after detecting the wake-up signal, receive, at the local assistant system, a first voice input communicating a first query content;
speech recognition circuitry programmed to recognize speech within the first voice input to determine the first query content;
speech generation circuitry programmed to generate speech output to the first speaker of the ear-wearable device;
an input database stored in a non-transitory computer-readable memory comprising locally-handled user inputs;
triage circuitry to determine whether the first query content matches one of the locally-handled user inputs;
local response circuitry, programmed to, if the first audio input matches one of the locally-handled user inputs, then take a local responsive action; and, network communication circuitry, configured to, if the first audio input does not match one of the locally-handled user inputs, transmit at least a portion of the first query content over a wireless network to a network resource;
wherein the system is configured to:
wirelessly transmit, by the ear-wearable device, to the gateway device, the biological information for storage at the gateway memory storage;
identify the biological information on the gateway memory storage in response to the first voice input, wherein the first query content is a bioinformatic request to report the biological information to the wearer, wherein the bioinformatic request is a locally-handled user input;
formulate, by the gateway device, content for an audio response reporting the biological information;
wirelessly transmit an audio response to the ear-wearable device; and
play the audio response on the first speaker of the ear-wearable device to provide the biological information to the wearer.