Patent ID: 9257133
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,G06N,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A computing device configured to: identify a user using a biometric sensor sensing one or more invariant characteristics of the user; sense speech using a microphone associated with the computing device; sense directly an involuntary physical variable associated with a user's body using a non-acoustic biomedical sensor, the sensing of the involuntary physical variable performed at least partially contemporaneously with the sensing of the speech, the non-acoustic biomedical sensor configured to directly sense one or more of a pulse rate of the user, nerve impulses of the user, respiration rate of the user, muscle activity of the user, or an orientation of at least one eye of the user; determine that the user is authenticated as the source of the speech based at least in part on an analysis of the involuntary physical variable obtained directly by the non-acoustic biomedical sensor and the speech; determine, based on sensing the one or more invariant characteristics of the user using the biometric sensor, that the user is authorized to use the computing device; identify, based on the involuntary physical variable obtained directly by the non-acoustic biomedical sensor, one or more verbal commands communicated by way of the speech; and perform one or more actions based at least in part on the verbal commands.