Voice Interface Content Sharing via URL Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current voice user interface systems lack the ability to seamlessly share content, such as music, photos, or recipes, between devices using voice commands, leading to a fragmented user experience and inefficient content dissemination.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes speech recognition and natural language understanding to generate URLs representing shared content, allowing users to share content via voice commands, with skills invoked to process and transmit the content to recipient devices, ensuring user permissions and compliance with regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If voice user interface systems are used for content sharing, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to integration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a messaging service as an intermediary component that receives content sharing requests from the voice assistant, processes them, and routes them to appropriate recipient devices. This mediator layer abstracts the complexity of direct device-to-device communication, allowing the voice interface to remain simple while handling complex sharing operations through standardized messaging protocols.
2Ease of operation
If speech recognition and natural language understanding are integrated, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the voice processing system into distinct functional modules: speech recognition component that converts audio to text, natural language understanding component that interprets intent, and content sharing component that executes the requested action. This segmentation allows each module to be optimized independently and reduces overall system complexity by creating clear separation of concerns.
3Productivity
If content sharing is enabled across devices, then productivity is improved, but loss of information increases due to permission and compliance requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary permission verification by checking user authorization and compliance requirements before content is actually shared. The system validates recipient permissions, content type restrictions, and regulatory compliance in advance of the sharing operation, preventing rejected transfers and reducing information loss from failed sharing attempts.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for sharing content using a voice user interface are described. A user may speak an input to share content presently being output by a device as audio and or displayed content. A backend system may determine the presently being output content, and generate message payload data representing the content. The backend system may also perform processing to determine an intended recipient of the content. The backend system may send the message payload data to the recipient using various modalities.