Patent 11601427 was granted and assigned to VMware on March, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed are various aspects of voice skill session lifetime management. In some examples, an inaudible sonic check-in announcement is detected. An inaudible sonic request for check-in authentication is emitted by a voice-activated device. An inaudible sonic authentication is detected. The inaudible sonic authentication includes a service provider identifier. The inaudible sonic check-in announcement is identified as authentic based on task data retrieved based on the service provider identifier. An inaudible sonic approval to perform a task specified in the task data is emitted by the voice-activated device.