Patent ID: 11862178
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method for operating an electronic device, the method comprising:
identifying a speech section of a user and a speech section of a neighbor in an audio signal received through a microphone, an audio connector, or a wireless communication circuit provided in the electronic device;
identifying a user utterance in the speech section of the user and a neighbor answer to the user utterance in the speech section of the neighbor;
obtaining user preference information associated with the user utterance;
determining a first reliability value to the neighbor answer and a second reliability value to an agent answer of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent generated in response to the user utterance, based on the user preference information, wherein the first reliability value and the second reliability value are numerical values determined by a reliability measurement method;
comparing the first reliability value with the second reliability value; and
outputting the agent answer through a speaker, the audio connector, or the wireless communication circuit when the second reliability value is equal to or higher than the first reliability value, without responding to the user utterance when the second reliability value is lower than the first reliability value.