Voice Command Integration Server for Smart Home Conflict Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
In smart home and IoT systems, multiple voice agents can lead to redundant or conflicting control commands for electronic devices, as existing technologies do not effectively integrate or manage commands from multiple sources, resulting in inefficient device control.
Innovation Solution
A processor-based system that tags additional information to control commands from voice agents, integrates them using clustering techniques, and determines a final command to prevent redundancy and conflict, selecting the appropriate voice agent for interaction based on user preferences and signal strength.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple voice agents are deployed to control electronic devices, then system coverage and user accessibility are improved, but command redundancy and conflicts increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a command integration server as an intermediary between multiple voice agents and electronic devices. This server receives control commands from various voice agents, integrates them by removing duplicates and resolving conflicts, and then executes the finalized commands. The intermediary structure allows the system to maintain multiple voice agents for improved coverage while ensuring reliable command execution through centralized coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple control commands from different voice agents into a single integrated command set. By combining commands and eliminating redundancies, the system maintains the benefits of multiple voice agents while preventing conflicting operations on electronic devices. This merging process ensures that duplicate commands are identified and consolidated, resolving the reliability issue caused by command redundancy.
2Speed
If control commands from multiple voice agents are executed directly, then response speed is improved, but command conflicts and redundancy occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary integration of control commands before they are executed by electronic devices. The command integration server processes and consolidates commands from multiple voice agents in advance, creating a coordinated command set that eliminates conflicts and redundancies. This preliminary action ensures that commands are ready for immediate execution without causing coordination issues, maintaining both speed and operational ease.
3Measurement precision
If additional information tagging and command integration processing are performed, then command accuracy and redundancy reduction are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the command processing system into distinct functional modules: a command reception module that receives commands from voice agents, a tagging module that adds identification information to each command, an integration module that processes and consolidates commands, and an execution module that sends finalized commands to devices. This segmentation allows the system to perform complex integration tasks while maintaining manageable system architecture through clear separation of concerns.
Solution Approach 2:
The command integration server performs multiple functions within a single system: receiving commands from various voice agents, tagging commands with identification information, integrating and deduplicating commands, resolving conflicts, and executing finalized commands. This multi-functional approach reduces overall system complexity by consolidating multiple processing tasks into a single universal platform rather than requiring separate specialized systems for each function.
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AI summary
Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for processing a control command for an electronic device based on a voice agent. The apparatus includes a command tagger configured to receive at least one control command for the electronic device from at least one voice agent and to tag additional information to the at least one control command, and a command executor configured to, in response to the command tagger receiving a plurality of control commands, integrate the plurality of control commands based on additional information tagged to each of the plurality of control commands and to control the electronic device based on a result of the integration.