{
  "patent_number": "US 12737552",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How a Voice Assistant Automatically Understands Your Spoken or Typed Words",
  "original_title": "Computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data",
  "summary": "This patent describes how a computer, like a voice assistant, automatically processes spoken or typed words from a user to understand and analyze what they mean.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent outlines a computer-implemented method for a voice assistant to understand user input. First, the system stores a structured, machine-readable version of the user's speech or text input in its memory, referred to as a 'machine representation'. This machine representation conforms to a specific machine-readable language. Second, the system automatically processes these machine representations to analyze the user's input. For example, if a user asks, \"What time is it in London?\", the voice assistant would convert this phrase into a structured data format and then automatically analyze that format to identify the request for time and the location \"London\".",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover systems that rely on manual human analysis of user speech or text input.",
    "Does not cover processing of non-speech or non-text user input, such as gestures or biometric data.",
    "Does not cover systems that do not create or use a structured, machine-readable representation of the user's input.",
    "Does not cover analysis of data that does not originate from a user's direct speech or text input.",
    "Does not cover systems where the processing of the machine representation is not automated."
  ],
  "filed": "2021-08-24",
  "granted": "2026-09-15",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": null,
  "holder_url": null,
  "inventors": [],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "ai_ml",
    "telecommunications"
  ],
  "abstract": "A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12737552/computer-implemented-method-for-the-automated-analysis-or-use-of-data",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12737552/computer-implemented-method-for-the-automated-analysis-or-use-of-data/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12737552",
  "relatedPatents": []
}