At the forefront of any niche field in science is a very small group of specialists working the problem (historically too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery) - the way we get ahead as a species is more specialised groups working more problems, which requires a larger educated base to draw from. i.e. we all go to the stars together or not at all, a dystopian future where most humans are impoverished/uneducated can't support the scientific progress needed to advance past our current technology
Have created two accounts in the past year and successfully posted once, despite trying dozens of times (ironically the one that made it was a rant about how impossible it is for new users)
That being said, shouldn't it be trivial to find prior art; prior software or articles already published on the internet that does what USPTO allowed Plaintiff to patent (2017) after searching only its own database?
Please understand how frustrating this obvious, on a mobile PC, prior-art-invalidateable patent is:
def on_voice_input(audio):
text = speech_to_text(audio)
tasks = parse_text(text) #
for task in tasks:
exec(task) # run locally, or
exec("ssh user@remote_host -- $task") # run remotely
Isn't that what Hal does in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)?
Pretty sure there were voice command apps for Palm, Symbian, Blackberry, WinMo, etc; years before the date on the cited patents.
(And furthermore, such has certainly been possible on desktop computers (PCs) for many years prior to 2017.) E.g. Dragon Naturally Speaking (now Nuance) has been able run to custom commands `on_voice_input()` on a PC since the early 2000s at least IIRC)
Given voice commands prior art,
to then run a remote command - over SSH, for example - is an obvious next step and thus not a patentable invention to this reasonable person.
(Industry has developed open specifications for running commands on remote computers:
Instead of keying SSH over IP for all devices in a LAN/WLAN, Thread (2014) and Matter (2019) transmit task messages with just AES over IEEE 802.15.4 protocols over WiFi. Thread is designed to replace existing, older protocols which lacked security features. Thread_(network_protocol)#IoT_protocols_landscape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)#IoT_...
Thus there is also prior art for running remote commands on remote devices (whether they be PCs, Macs, Linuxes, or mobile devices)
