US 12,261,848 B2
Multi-user devices in a connected home environment
Anumita Biswas, Santa Clara, CA (US); Karl F. Schramm, Monte Sereno, CA (US); and Benjamin S. Phipps, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/083,435.
Application 18/083,435 is a continuation of application No. 16/673,811, filed on Nov. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,533,313.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/855,704, filed on May 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0198992 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 67/60 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/102 (2013.01) [G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04L 12/2803 (2013.01); H04L 63/0815 (2013.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/60 (2022.05); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by one or more servers and from a first device, a request to share a first voice profile corresponding to a first user account associated with the first device, with a second device associated with a second user account, the second device being voice-enabled, the first voice profile being stored on a first data store at the one or more servers, the first data store being associated with the first user account;
responsive to receiving, by the one or more servers, the request from the first device, updating, by the one or more servers, a second data store at the one or more servers to include, in a first secure container associated with the second user account, a reference to the first data store that stores the first voice profile, the second data store further including a second secure container associated with the second user account, the second secure container storing a second voice profile corresponding to the second user account; and
sending, by the one or more servers and to the second device, a notification that the second data store at the one or more servers has been updated to include the reference to the first data store that stores the first voice profile.