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Google patents group chat feature for voice assistants on headphones

This filing describes a system where multiple people can join a shared voice assistant session. When new users join the group, the assistant automatically sends them a summary of the conversation so far.

Why it mattersIt could make group conversations with digital assistants more inclusive by ensuring latecomers catch up quickly.

In the filing’s own words

Systems and methods for creating a group automated assistant session and processing requests that are intended for the users that are included in the group. A plurality of users can indicate intentions to create a group session that includes selecting an automated assistant, from the automated assistants executing on the devices of the user and providing the selected automated assistant with audio data that is captured by microphones of the user devices. In response, the selected automated assistant processes the audio data and generates a response that is provided, via one or more speakers of the device that is executing the selected automated assistant. Further, fulfillment data is provided to the automated assistants executing on other devices and, in response to being provided the fulfillment data, each automated assistant causes audio data to be rendered, via one or more speakers of each respective device, that is responsive to the request.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: providing a plurality of users of a group session access to a group automated assistant; receiving, subsequent to providing the plurality of users of the group session access to the group automated assistant, one or more inputs from one or more users of the plurality of users of the group session; causing, in response to one or more of the inputs, the group automated assistant to perform one or more actions; determining, subsequent to receiving one or more of the inputs from one or more of the users, that an additional user has joined the group session; and causing, in response to determining that the additional user has joined the group session, a summary of the group session to be provided to the additional user by the group automated assistant.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
GENERATING A GROUP AUTOMATED ASSISTANT SESSION TO PROVIDE CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF USERS VIA HEADPHONES
Publication number
US20260279357A1
Application number
19667162
Filed
May 4, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G10L 15/22 Physics & computingG10L 2015/223 Physics & computingG10L 2015/225 Physics & computingG10L 2015/228 Physics & computing
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