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Amazon patents system to auto-link actions across different devices

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Amazon has been granted a patent for a system that automatically sets up connections between different devices linked to the same user account. The system analyzes how devices are used to predict what actions should happen next, then creates rules so that one device can trigger an action on another without the user needing to manually set it up each time.

Why it mattersThis could make smart home and multi-device setups easier to manage by reducing the manual configuration required to link different gadgets.

In the filing’s own words

Techniques for action correlation for multiple devices is described herein. In an example, a computer system determines first contextual data associated with a first device. The computer system determines second contextual data associated with a second device. The first device and the second device are associated with an account. The computer system generates, based at least in part on the first contextual data and the second contextual data, configuration data indicating a trigger to be detected by at least one of the first device or the second device and an action to be executed by at least one of the first device or the second device upon the trigger being detected. The computer system associates the configuration data with the account.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories storing instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, configure the system to: associate permission data with an account, the permission data indicating a permission to automate one or more device-executable actions; receive event data indicating that a first device has been associated with the account, the first device associated with a first category of devices; determine first contextual data associated with the first device, the first contextual data indicating at least one of: a device type, a device identifier, or how the first device is to be used in association with the account; generate, based at least in part on the first contextual data, intent data indicating an intended use of the first device in association with a second device, the second device associated with a second category of devices; determine an action to automate based at least in part on the permission data and the intent data; generate, prior to occurrence of the intended use and without a user input that indicates the action or a trigger event for the action, configuration data associated with automating the action, the configuration data indicating, based at least in part on the second device being associated with the second category, that the action is to be executed by the second device upon the trigger event being detected by the other one of the first device or the second device; associate the configuration data with the account such that, upon the trigger event being detected, the first device or the second device is instructed to execute the action; and cause a description of the action and the trigger event to be presented via a user interface associated with the account.

Facts

Company
Amazon (Amazon Technologies, Inc.)
Official title
Action automation across one or more devices
Patent number
US12769594B1
Application number
18899437
Filed
Sep 27, 2024
Granted
Oct 20, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
23

Classified under

G06F 9/543 Physics & computingG06N 20/00 Physics & computingH04L 63/102 Electricity & electronics

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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