Patent ID: 11893985
Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A beacon network, comprising:
a primary beacon device including a speaker, a microphone, a processor and a memory; and
one or more secondary beacon devices communicatively coupled to the primary beacon device; each of the one or more secondary beacon devices including a secondary beacon speaker, a secondary beacon microphone, a secondary beacon processor and a secondary beacon memory;
wherein the memory of the primary beacon stores instructions executable by the processor to:
receive audio data from each of the one or more secondary beacon devices, the audio data from each of the one or more secondary beacon devices detected via the secondary beacon microphone of each of the one or more secondary beacon devices, each audio data including a voice query to a requested voice assistant;
process the audio data from each of the one or more secondary beacon devices via the primary beacon device,
wherein processing the audio data includes the primary beacon device generating a voice fingerprint for the audio data for each of the one or more secondary beacon devices,
wherein the voice fingerprints are used by the beacon device to assign a priority and queue the processed audio data from each of the one or more secondary beacon devices; then

transmit each voice query to the requested voice assistant according to the priority assigned to each voice query;
receive a voice response to each voice query from the requested voice assistant; and transmit the voice response to a corresponding secondary beacon device from which each voice query originated;
wherein the requested voice assistant is any of one or more voice assistants communicatively coupled to the primary beacon device and wherein the primary beacon device is within a corresponding listening range of the one or more voice assistants.