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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,715,875 B2 Piernot Et Al USOO971.5875B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,715,875 B2 Piernot et al. (45) Date of Patent: Jul. 25, 2017 (54) REDUCING THE NEED FOR MANUAL (56) References Cited STARTAEND-PONTING AND TRIGGER PHRASES U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 1,559,320 A 10, 1925 Hirsh (71) Applicant: Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US) 2,180,522 A 11/1939 Henne (Continued) (72) Inventors: Philippe P. Piernot, Palo Alto, CA (US); Justin G. Binder, Oakland, CA FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (US) CA 2666438 C 6, 2013 (73) Assignee: Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US) CH 681573 A5 4f1993 (Continued) (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 OTHER PUBLICATIONS U.S.C. 154(b) by 53 days. Extended European Search Report (includes Partial European Search Report and European Search Opinion) received for Euro (21) Appl. No.: 14/502,737 pean Patent Application No. 15169349.6, mailed on Jul. 28, 2015, 8 pages. (22) Filed: Sep. 30, 2014 (Continued) (65) Prior Publication Data Primary Examiner — Ibrahim Siddo (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Morrison & Foerster US 2015/0348548 A1 Dec. 3, 2015 LLP (57) ABSTRACT Systems and processes for selectively processing and Related U.S. Application Data responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one (60) Provisional application No. 62/005,760, filed on May example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be 30, 2014. received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and (51) Int. C. end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined GIOL I5/22 (2006.01) whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The deter GIOL I5/26 (2006.01) mination can be made using a rule-based system or a (Continued) probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user (52) U.S. C. input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user CPC .............. G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 input can be processed and an appropriate response can be (2013.01); H04 W4/025 (2013.01); generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user (Continued) input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken (58) Field of Classification Search user input can be ignored and/or no response can be gener CPC ....................................................... G1OL 15/22 ated. See application file for complete search history. 8 Claims, 5 Drawing Sheets Process 400 Monitor The Audio input For A Spoken 402 Receive AStart-pointldentifier User input - Spoken User input entified 404 Receive An Audio input deterine Whethe Of Not The Wirtual Assistant Should respond To The Spoken user Input Based On 406 ldentify An Initial Spoken User input Contextuallnformation From The Audio input Respond? 408 Generate AresponseToThe First Spoken User input Generate AResponseToThe Spoken User input US 9,715,875 B2 Page 2 (51) Int. C. 4,790,028 12, 1988 Ramage GOL 7/00 4,797,930 1, 1989 Goudie (2013.01) 4,802,223 1, 1989 Lin et al. H0474/02 (2009.01) 4,803,729 2, 1989 Baker GIOL 15/18 (2013.01) 4,807,752 2, 1989 Chodorow (52) U.S. C. 4,811,243 3, 1989 Racine CPC 4,813,074 3, 1989 Marcus G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G 10L 15/1822 4,819,271 4, 1989 Bahl et al. 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