Context-Aware Voice Actions With Dynamic Buttons on Media Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional voice-based digital assistants rely on backend components due to computational limitations of electronic devices, failing to leverage the context of voice inputs for personalized and effective actions.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that determines context from natural language inputs on a media device, calculates priority scores for actions, and generates dynamic action buttons for user selection, enabling efficient task execution and power optimization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If voice-based digital assistants rely on backend components for processing, then computational limitations of electronic devices are avoided, but device complexity increases and response time is delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask performance reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and implements context determination and action prioritization logic directly within the media device's digital assistant, removing the dependency on backend components for these specific functions. This allows the device to process voice inputs locally for context analysis and action selection, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining reliable task performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the voice processing system into distinct functional modules: voice input reception, context determination, action identification, priority scoring, and dynamic button generation. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently and optimally, improving reliability while keeping the overall system manageable in complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional digital assistants use basic voice recognition, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to provide personalized and effective actions is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic action buttons that adapt their content and behavior based on the determined context and priority scores. The system dynamically adjusts the interface and action options presented to users according to the voice input context, enabling personalized responses without requiring overly complex processing for every possible scenario.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes parameters such as action priority scores and button configurations based on the analyzed context of voice inputs. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the system provides personalized and effective actions while maintaining manageable processing complexity through rule-based parameter modification rather than complex machine learning models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If digital assistants perform more comprehensive task analysis, then task performance reliability is improved, but power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask execution reliabilityVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary context determination and action prioritization before presenting options to the user. By analyzing the voice input and determining context and priority scores in advance, the system prepares appropriate action buttons efficiently, improving task execution reliability while minimizing power consumption through targeted processing rather than continuous heavy analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12518092B2Systems and methods to generate contextual based actions
Publication Date: 2026.01.06 ADEIA GUIDES INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for providing contextual based actions based on a natural language input are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, on a media device, a natural language input; determining, based on the natural language input, a first context of the natural language input; and determining, based on the first context, a first action. a dynamic action button is generated and configured to be selected by a user to carry out an action, and in response to the user selecting the dynamic action button, the systems and methods describe carrying out the first action.