Patent Document ID: 9401058
Application ID: 13361353

Base Claim:
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.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving a voiceprint from a computing device associated with the speaker identity, wherein the speaker identity is associated with a user of the computing system; storing the voiceprint and a speaker identity within a voiceprint database; subsequently determining the identity of the speaker based on a speech utterance associated with the user, wherein the determining matches the identity of a speaker to a voiceprint within the voiceprint database; and establishing the location of the speaker via the speech utterance.