Patent ID: 6988070

Claim:
A voice control system for operating home electrical appliances, said system comprising: a home agent server (HAS) configured to be installed in a house and connected to the home electrical appliances for controlling operation of the home electrical appliances; a microphone and a speaker linked to said home agent server through an in-house network; a voice recognition unit configured to recognize a user's voice request received at the microphone; a transaction processing program (TP) executable at the HAS and configured to manage the home electrical appliances, said TP program having an instruction interpreting module configured to prepare from the voice request a particular instruction indicating a destined appliance and a method for controlling the destined appliance, and to provide an output command for controlling the destined appliance in accordance with the particular instruction; a plurality of human presence sensors configured to be installed in different rooms of the house and linked to said HAS, said plurality of human presence sensors configured to sense a presence of the user and to provide a detection signal indicative of a particular one of the rooms where the presence of the user is sensed; and a room locating module configured to identify the particular room based on the detection signal, and to instruct to issue voice message confirming an acceptance of the user's request or a completion of the particular instruction from the speaker belonging to the identified room, said room locating module included in one of said TP program and said HAS.