US 11,722,474 B2
Embedding content in audio content through a voice assistant
Rohit Pradeep Shetty, Bangalore (IN); Sheetal Deenadayalan, Bangalore (IN); and Pon Venkatesh M, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to VMWare, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/903,412.
Claims priority of application No. 202041018500 (IN), filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0344666 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G10L 19/018 (2013.01)
CPC H04L 63/0815 (2013.01) [G10L 19/018 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
at least one computing device;
at least one application that, when executed by the at least one application, causes the at least one computing device to at least:
receive a request to access a voice assistant service provided by the at least one application;
generate audio content associated with the request for playback through a voice assistant device;
obtain a uniform resource locator (URL), the URL linking to respective additional content in a service endpoint, wherein the URL comprises a link to the service endpoint, and the service endpoint federates authentication to an identity provider in which a user account associated with the client device is stored;
embed the URL into the audio content, wherein the URL detectable using a client device in proximity to a voice assistant device; and
cause the audio content to be played back by a speaker system of the voice assistant device, wherein the client device in proximity to the voice assistant device extracts the URL and accesses the respective additional content in the service endpoints second client device in proximity to the voice assistant device extracts the URL, and the service endpoint provides respective additional content to the second client device that is different from the respective additional content provided to the client device.