Patent ID: 9431014
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G01S,G06F,G10L,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for operating a system to respond to a human voice signal, the system comprising a plurality of appliances, the method comprising: connecting each of the plurality of appliances over a local area network; generating a location map providing a location of each of the plurality of appliances; receiving the human voice signal at a plurality of microphones respectively included in the plurality of appliances, wherein the human voice signal requests one or more appliance actions; determining an originating location of the human voice signal based at least in part on the location map; determining one or more functionalities required to complete the one or more requested appliance actions; and identifying the most proximate appliance to the originating location that is capable of performing the one or more functionalities to complete the one or more requested appliance actions, wherein identifying the most proximate appliance to the originating location that is capable of performing the one or more functionalities to complete the one or more requested appliance actions comprise: