US Patent 12094462 Communication method, server, and device

A method includes receiving information from each device in multiple devices of one user, where the information includes a device type, determining, according to at least the received information, a device responding to a voice instruction in the multiple devices, and sending a message to a device different from the device responding to a voice instruction in the multiple devices, where the message is used to instruct a voice assistant of the different device not to respond to the voice instruction.