Patent ID: 9401058
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G01S,G07C,H04R

Claim Text:
1. A method for voiceprint based location awareness comprising: receiving a speech from a speaker proximate to at least one of a plurality of microphones within an environment; processing the speech to produce an utterance to determine the identity of the speaker, wherein the identity of the speaker is associated with a voiceprint, wherein the identity is associated with a user credentials of a computing system, wherein the user credentials uniquely identifies the user within the computing system; analyzing the utterance to establish a zone in which the speaker is present, wherein the zone is a bounded region within the environment, wherein the analyzing comprises of at least one triangulation computation that determines a user location based in part upon acoustic echoes unique to the bounded region resulting from the speech or from ambient noise in the environment; and mapping the zone within the environment to determine a location of the speaker.