Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 10593330, I will search the USPTO database for the patent and examine its cited references.

Here's the most relevant prior art for US patent 10593330, based on the patent document itself. The patent lists various prior art references in its "References Cited" section, which are typically identified by the patent examiner and/or the applicant via an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) as having a bearing on patentability. These references are considered by the examiner during prosecution to assess novelty and non-obviousness (35 U.S.C. §§ 102 and 103).

The patent text provided does not explicitly detail which claims each specific piece of prior art anticipates under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (anticipation) or renders obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (obviousness). Determining this would typically require a detailed claim-by-claim analysis against the full disclosure of each prior art reference, which is beyond the scope of this response. However, I can list the cited prior art references and provide a brief description of their relevance as generally understood in the field.

Since the full list of cited references is not in the prompt, I need to access the full patent document. I will present a summary of the most relevant prior art once that information is retrieved.

Disclaimer: Without direct access to the USPTO database for live querying, I am relying on the information present within the provided patent text to identify cited prior art. The provided text only briefly mentions "Prior art keywords" and a "Prior art date," but does not explicitly list the cited prior art patents or publications and their details. To provide a comprehensive list of prior art citations with full citation, publication/filing date, brief description, and potential claim anticipation, I would need to access the full patent document.

However, based on the general technical field of "Hotword detection on multiple devices" and the described functionality, here are the types of prior art that would be highly relevant, and which the examiner would have considered:

• Speech Recognition Systems: Patents and publications detailing the fundamental principles and systems of automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly those involving keyword spotting or "hotword" detection.
• Multi-Device Coordination: Prior art addressing how multiple electronic devices in proximity communicate and coordinate their actions, especially in response to user input or environmental stimuli.
• Confidence Scoring in ASR: References discussing methods for calculating confidence scores in speech recognition systems, indicating the likelihood of a correct recognition.
• Speaker Identification/Verification: Prior art related to identifying or verifying a speaker's identity from their voice, as the patent mentions using speaker identification to determine which devices should respond to a hotword.
• Low-Power Listening Modes: Patents describing systems where devices continuously listen for specific triggers (like hotwords) while minimizing power consumption.

The provided patent abstract mentions that "This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/346,914, filed Nov. 9, 2016, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 15/088,477, filed Apr. 1, 2016, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/675,932, filed Apr. 1, 2015, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/061,830, filed on Oct. 9, 2014, all of which are incorporated by reference." These earlier applications in the chain are crucial prior art for this patent, and would contain their own citations to even earlier prior art.

To provide the specific citations, I need the full patent document for US10593330.