Google Patents

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  • Patent number: 11146648
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for managing notifications directed to multiple applications installed on a user device are provided. In some embodiments, a method for managing notifications is provided, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, a first notification for a first application; determining a first user device associated with the first application; receiving a second notification for a second application; determining a second user device associated with the second application; determining that the first user device and the second user device are the same device; determining that the first notification and the second notification are corresponding notifications; determining that the first notification has priority over the second notification; sending the first notification to the first user device upon determining that the first notification has priority over the second notification; and inhibiting the second notification from being sent to the first user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Joseph Daverin
  • Patent number: 11146900
    Abstract: Techniques, methods, systems, and other mechanisms for measuring the excursion of a speaker while being actively driven. Measuring excursion can involve attaching a flexible printed coil (FPC), including a sense coil, to the speaker, and monitoring an induced current as produced though the sense coil, and further detecting that violation of an excursion limit for the speaker may likely occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Asfaw, Chad Georges Seguin, David C. Breece, III, Leonardo Kusumo
  • Patent number: 11146413
    Abstract: A method and computing system for receiving, using one or more computing devices, a discrete video stream from each of a plurality of users of a social network, resulting in a plurality of discrete video streams. A synchronous communication session is provided for the plurality of users based, at least in part, upon the plurality of discrete video streams. The plurality of discrete video streams are broadcast to one or more broadcast recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew J. Leske, Loren Groves
  • Patent number: 11147161
    Abstract: Package to printed circuit board (PCB) transitions are described. In one aspect, a multi-layer PCB includes an external layer having a transition region configured to receive an electrical component and a clear routing region outside of the transition region. The PCB includes first via(s) that extend from the transition region to an inner trace routing layer. The trace routing layer is disposed between the external layer and the second inner trace routing layer. The first inner trace routing layer includes a transition area disposed under the transition region of the external layer, a clear routing area outside of the transition region, and a transmission line that connects a given first via to a second via for a second electrical component. The transmission line includes conductive trace(s) that each have a first width in the transition area and a second width, greater than the first width, in the clear routing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Leesa Marie Noujeim
  • Patent number: 11146520
    Abstract: Implementations relate to sharing images and image albums over a communication network. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes determining that a shared album data structure is accessible by a device and includes references to album images. The device determines one or more suggested images from a collection of stored images associated with a user, based on determining sharing scores for the stored images. The sharing scores are based on comparing one or more characteristics of the stored images to one or more corresponding characteristics of the album images. The method includes causing display of the one or more suggested images by the device, receiving a selection of at least one selected image of the suggested images based on received user input, and causing an update of the shared album data structure with the at least one selected image to be accessible over a communication network by recipient users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Lieb, James Gallagher, Kedar Jayant Kanitkar, Teresa Ko, Loren Puchalla Fiore, Jason Chang, Nan Wang, Jingyu Cui, Shengyang Dai
  • Patent number: 11145702
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of array sites arranged in an array defined by a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The display panel includes a first area of the array having a first pixel density and a second area of the array having a second pixel density lower than the first pixel density. The second area of the array includes a plurality of the array sites that are devoid of pixels. Rows of the second area that border the first area include at least one pixel and columns of the second area that border the first area include at least one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sun-Il Chang, Sangmoo Choi, Hyunchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11146099
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including for back-up power sources. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of first battery devices, each first battery device respectively electrically coupled to a respective server rack in a plurality of server racks and having a respective capacity to provide power to the respective rack for a power anomaly for up to a first duration. Providing a second battery device electrically coupled to the plurality of server racks and having a capacity to provide power to the plurality of respective server racks for a power anomaly for up to a second duration, wherein the second duration is longer than the first duration. A power anomaly is a deviation of mains power from one or more of a nominal supply voltage and frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Gregory Malone
  • Patent number: 11144014
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a hybrid smartwatch that incorporates digital technology with an analog timepiece in a wristwatch form factor. A digital display layer of a non-emissive material is configured to present notices, data, content and other information. An analog display layer includes one or more hands of the timepiece, and overlies the digital display layer. The hands may be controlled by a processor through micro-stepper motors or other actuators. Physical motion of the hands is simultaneously coupled with arrangement of content or other elements on the display layer, which results in numerous types of hybrid visualizations. This includes temporal presentations using hourly, daily, monthly or other time scales. Shape-shifting of the watch hands between 2D and 1D arrangements can linearly focus on certain information. And various content-aware layouts can highlight, bracket, occlude or otherwise emphasize or deemphasize displayed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alex Olwal, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Tyler Gough
  • Patent number: 11145300
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to the generation of voice-activated data flows in interconnected network. The voice-activated data flows can include input audio signals that include a request and are detected at a client device. The client device can transmit the input audio signal to a data processing system, where the input audio signal can be parsed and passed to the data processing system of a service provider to fulfill the request in the input audio signal. The present solution is configured to conserve network resources by reducing the number of network transmissions needed to fulfill a request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Bhaya, Ulas Kirazci, Bradley Abrams, Adam Coimbra, Ilya Firman, Carey Radebaugh
  • Patent number: 11144584
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to coordinate parallel processing of audio queries across multiple devices. A data processing system can receive an audio input signal detected the display device and parse the audio input signal to identify an entity. The data processing system can transmit a query command to the display device to cause a multimedia content application to perform a search for the entity. The data processing system can access at least one of an address database and a multimedia content provider to identify a reference address for the entity. The data processing system can provide the reference address for the entity to cause the display device to present a content selection interface. The content selection interface can include an element for the reference address, prior to completion of the search for the entity performed by the multimedia content application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wei Leong, Nicu Cornea, Maya Tekke Anant
  • Patent number: 11143861
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable heads-up display (WHUD) having a laser projector to generate a display image. The display image can have a pixel having a pixel on-time. Furthermore, the laser projector can have a laser diode to emit laser light. The WHUD can also include a controller communicatively coupled to the laser diode. The controller can modulate the laser diode during the pixel on-time to be off during a laser off-time of the pixel on-time and on during a laser on-time of the pixel on-time. Moreover, the WHUD can include a holographic optical element to receive the laser light from the laser projector and redirect the laser light towards an eye of a user of the WHUD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson
  • Patent number: 11144463
    Abstract: A method for an in-memory distributed cache includes receiving a write request from a client device to write a block of client data in random access memory (RAM) of a memory host and determining whether to allow the write request by determining whether the client device has permission to write the block of client data at the memory host, determining whether the block of client data is currently saved at the memory host, and determining whether a free block of RAM is available. When the client device has permission to write the block of client data at the memory host, the block of client data is not currently saved at the memory host, and a free block of RAM is available, the write request is allowed and the client is allowed to write the block of client data to the free block of RAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Asa Briggs
  • Patent number: 11144278
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to determine operational statuses of agents interfacing with digital assistant applications. The data processing system can access a log database. The log database can maintain response metrics for an agent service. Each response metric can correspond to a response by the agent service to a request generated by a digital assistant application responsive to an input audio signal. The data processing system can transmit a ping request to the agent service and can wait for a second response from the agent service. The data processing system can determine an operational status of the agent service based on the response metrics and on a time elapsed since the transmission of the ping request. The data processing system can cause the digital assistant application to perform an action based on the operational status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Quazi Hussain, Nikhil Rao
  • Patent number: 11144174
    Abstract: A system may provide, via a user interface, information identifying two or more of trending search-related information, trending video-related information, trending image-related information, or trending news-related information. The two or more of the trending search-related information, the trending video-related information, the trending image-related information, or the trending news-related information are visually presented as graphical items. Each graphical item, of the graphical items, is visually identified as corresponding to the trending search-related information, the trending video-related information, the trending image-related information, or the trending news-related information. The user interface presents multiple graphical items simultaneously. The system may further receive information identifying a topic, and provide, based on receiving the information identifying the topic, a subsequent group of graphical items, on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Harris Plesur, Noah Levin, Arthur Edmond Blume, Peter Michael Gast
  • Patent number: 11144706
    Abstract: The document in the first layout at a user interface is displayed. The first layout displays the document in a continuous view. The first layout the document is scrollable to display different regions of the document at a user device. A first user request to convert the display of the document from the first layout to the second layout is received. Responsive to the first user request, a suggested boundary within the first layout of the document is determined by identifying an end of first content of a first content type and a beginning of second content of a second content type in the document. The first content type and the second content type are different content types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vance Julius Vagell, Amber Hampton, Colleen O'Banion, Dominic Marin Espinosa, Elias Horne, Sarah Cooper, Shikhiu Ing
  • Patent number: 11145095
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting graphical user interfaces comprising multiple components interrelated such that inputs received in one component of a graphical user interface render automatic and corresponding updates for another component of the graphical user interface. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of presenting a graphical user interface; and receiving user input of one or more parameters, the graphical user interface including a calendar portion and an associated graphical portion, the calendar portion comprising a date box for each date in a range of dates, and the graphical portion specifying non-date parameters for trips beginning on each date of the range of dates. A change in the calendar portion of the graphical user interface automatically renders a corresponding change in the graphical portion of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Frank, Rodney S. Daughtrey
  • Patent number: 11144274
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for providing a remote control interface are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing a remote control interface is provided, the method comprising: receiving an image of a user input interface associated with a media playback device; identifying the user input interface from a plurality of user input interfaces based on image recognition; determining a code library associated with the identified user input interface; and transmitting the code library to a mobile device that provided the image of the user input interface, wherein the code library allows a mobile device to control the media playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ant Oztaskent
  • Patent number: 11144959
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting advertisements relevant to nearby users on a public display device are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting content on a public display device, the method comprising: receiving location information associated with mobile devices that is indicative of a position of the mobile device relative to a display device associated with a retail outlet; receiving interests associated with the mobile devices; identifying a plurality of advertising sources associated with the display device, including a retailer associated with the retail outlet; determining a topic based on the received interests and the location information associated with the mobile devices; determining that the topic is related an advertisement associated with the retailer; causing the advertisement associated with the retailer to be selected based on the topic; and causing the selected advertisement to be presented by the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eric H C Liu, Kenneth Wayne Dauber, Michel Weksler
  • Patent number: 11144557
    Abstract: A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: retrieve program details data about at least one media program. Retrieve social media posts involving the at least one media program. Match the retrieved program details data with the retrieved social media posts to find matching locations. Store time offset data corresponding to the matched locations within the at least one media program into at least one micropost. Rank the at least one media program by the number of microposts corresponding to the at least one media program. Present the at least one media program, each of the at least one media program with at least one micropost, wherein the at least one micropost comprises a link to the original social media page hosting the social media post and a video deeplink that plays a time off-set video, the time off-set video starting from the stored time offset data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Gjokica Zafirovski
  • Patent number: 11144588
    Abstract: Implementations are described for determining, based on a user-assembled collection of electronic content items, at least one actual purpose for the assembled collection. Those implementations are further directed to selecting an additional electronic content item based on the at least one actual purpose being assigned to the additional electronic content item in an electronic database. Those implementations are yet further directed to, responsive to the selecting, causing a suggestion for the additional electronic content item to be rendered at a client device associated with a user account that is assigned to the user-assembled collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jared Zimmerman, Stevi McBrian
  • Patent number: 11145075
    Abstract: A handheld user device includes a monocular camera to capture a feed of images of a local scene and a processor to select, from the feed, a keyframe and perform, for a first image from the feed, stereo matching using the first image, the keyframe, and a relative pose based on a pose associated with the first image and a pose associated with the keyframe to generate a sparse disparity map representing disparities between the first image and the keyframe. The processor further is to determine a dense depth map from the disparity map using a bilateral solver algorithm, and process a viewfinder image generated from a second image of the feed with occlusion rendering based on the depth map to incorporate one or more virtual objects into the viewfinder image to generate an AR viewfinder image. Further, the processor is to provide the AR viewfinder image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julien Valentin, Onur G. Guleryuz, Mira Leung, Maksym Dzitsiuk, Jose Pascoal, Mirko Schmidt, Christoph Rhemann, Neal Wadhwa, Eric Turner, Sameh Khamis, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Ambrus Csaszar, João Manuel Castro Afonso, Jonathan T. Barron, Michael Schoenberg, Ivan Dryanovski, Vivek Verma, Vladimir Tankovich, Shahram Izadi, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos
  • Patent number: 11145203
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for establishing a hands-free communication session between a user and an electronic device. A triggering event for establishing a communication session with the user of a navigation application is detected. The triggering event may include identification, by the electronic device, of information from the data source that is desirable to communicate to the user at the present time. A level of importance of the information is determined, and a notification in accordance with the determined level of importance is generated, the notification having a first property in a first instance and a second property in a second instance. When, after generating the notification, permission from the user to establish the communication session is received, a communication session between the electronic device and the user including voice output by the electronic device and voice input by the user may be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David Noy, Gal Moshitch, Shachar Shimoni
  • Patent number: 11144831
    Abstract: A method for receiving training data for training a neural network (NN) to perform a machine learning (ML) task and for determining, using the training data, an optimized NN architecture for performing the ML task is described. Determining the optimized NN architecture includes: maintaining population data comprising, for each candidate architecture in a population of candidate architectures, (i) data defining the candidate architecture, and (ii) data specifying how recently a neural network having the candidate architecture has been trained while determining the optimized neural network architecture; and repeatedly performing multiple operations using each of a plurality of worker computing units to generate a new candidate architecture based on a selected candidate architecture having the best measure of fitness, adding the new candidate architecture to the population, and removing from the population the candidate architecture that was trained least recently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yanping Huang, Alok Aggarwal, Quoc V. Le, Esteban Alberto Real
  • Patent number: 11145288
    Abstract: A computing system and related techniques for selecting content to be automatically converted to speech and provided as an audio signal are provided. A text-to-speech request associated with a first document can be received that includes data associated with a playback position of a selector associated with a text-to-speech interface overlaid on the first document. First content associated with the first document can be determined based at least in part on the playback position, the first content including content that is displayed in the user interface at the playback position. The first document can be analyzed to identify one or more structural features associated with the first content. Speech data can be generated based on the first content and the one or more structural features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface, Jack Whyte, Jakub Adamek, Simon Tokumine, Alessio Macri, Matthias Quasthoff
  • Patent number: 11145293
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for performing speech recognition using sequence-to-sequence models. An automated speech recognition (ASR) system receives audio data for an utterance and provides features indicative of acoustic characteristics of the utterance as input to an encoder. The system processes an output of the encoder using an attender to generate a context vector and generates speech recognition scores using the context vector and a decoder trained using a training process that selects at least one input to the decoder with a predetermined probability. An input to the decoder during training is selected between input data based on a known value for an element in a training example, and input data based on an output of the decoder for the element in the training example. A transcription is generated for the utterance using word elements selected based on the speech recognition scores. The transcription is provided as an output of the ASR system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Zhifeng Chen, Bo Li, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Kanury Kanishka Rao, Yonghui Wu, Ron J. Weiss, Navdeep Jaitly, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani, Tara N. Sainath, Jan Kazimierz Chorowski, Anjuli Patricia Kannan, Ekaterina Gonina, Patrick An Phu Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11145256
    Abstract: This document describes systems and techniques for dynamic control of scan signals in active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. Displays in portable electronic devices, such as smartphones, include tens of thousands of pixels. Scan signals in the display control the brightness and color of individual pixels. A leading source of power consumption in AMOLED displays, however, is the parasitic capacitance in the scan lines that carry the scan signals. As the frame rate of AMOLED displays has increased, the frequency of scan signals and the associated parasitic capacitance has also increased. The described AMOLED display can dynamically control the number of pulses in scan signals to reduce power consumption without degrading image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sang Young Youn
  • Publication number: 20210312497
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media utilized to prepare experimental datasets for experimental analysis systems. One method includes identifying, by one or more processing circuits, a dataset of a plurality of geographic pairs associated with a geo experiment. The method further includes calculating, by the one or more processing circuits, a difference in input data and a difference in response data between the first geographic region and the second geographic region of each geographic pair. The method further includes calculating, by the one or more processing circuits, a plurality of outcome estimates. The method further includes selecting, by the one or more processing circuits, a first subset of geographic pairs of the plurality of different subsets of geographic pairs based a first outcome estimate of the plurality of outcome estimates that is about a prespecified value on the outcome estimates and providing the selected subset of geographic pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aiyou Chen, Timothy C. Au
  • Publication number: 20210312913
    Abstract: A method for training hotword detection includes receiving a training input audio sequence including a sequence of input frames that define a hotword that initiates a wake-up process on a device. The method also includes feeding the training input audio sequence into an encoder and a decoder of a memorized neural network. Each of the encoder and the decoder of the memorized neural network include sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers. The method further includes generating a logit at each of the encoder and the decoder based on the training input audio sequence. For each of the encoder and the decoder, the method includes smoothing each respective logit generated from the training input audio sequence, determining a max pooling loss from a probability distribution based on each respective logit, and optimizing the encoder and the decoder based on all max pooling losses associated with the training input audio sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Hyun Jin Park, Patrick Violette
  • Publication number: 20210313707
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses that include a three-dimensional (3D) antenna module for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic millimeter waves (mmWaves). In general, a user equipment (UE) may include the 3D antenna module in a corner of a housing of the UE. The 3D antenna module may include three antenna panels that are generally planar and generally orthogonal to three respective axes of a Cartesian-coordinate system. The 3D antenna module may transmit and receive the electromagnetic mmWaves as part of a wireless link between the UE and another device, such as a satellite that is part of a wireless-communication network. In general, the 3D antenna module may mitigate propagation losses and allow the UE to maintain a link-budget for the wireless link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Aamir Akram, Erik Richard Stauffer, Sharath Ananth, Chien Pin Chiu, ShihHao Chiu
  • Publication number: 20210312921
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, for each of multiple words or sub-words, audio data corresponding to multiple users speaking the word or sub-word; training, for each of the multiple words or sub-words, a pre-computed hotword model for the word or sub-word based on the audio data for the word or sub-word; receiving a candidate hotword from a computing device; identifying one or more pre-computed hotword models that correspond to the candidate hotword; and providing the identified, pre-computed hotword models to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Sharifi
  • Publication number: 20210314440
    Abstract: A computing device is described that accepts, a telephone call, from another device, initiated by a caller. Prior to establishing a telephone user interface that receives spoken input from the user and outputs spoken audio from the caller, the computing device executes a call screening service that outputs an audio user interface, to the other device and as part of the telephone call. The audio user interface interrogates the caller for additional information including a purpose of the telephone call, which allows the user to have more context of the telephone call before deciding whether to accept the call or hang up. The computing device outputs a graphical user interface associated with telephone call. The graphical user interface includes an indication of the additional information obtained via the audio user interface that interrogates the caller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shavit Matias, Noam Etzion-Rosenberg, Rebecca Chiou, Benjamin Schlesinger, Brandon Charles Barbello, Ori Kabeli, Usman Abdullah, Eric Erfanian, Michelle Tadmor, Aditi Bhargava, Jan Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Alex Agranovich, Nir Shemy, Paul Dunlop, Yossi Matias, Kyungmin Youn, Nadav Bar
  • Publication number: 20210312903
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech endpointing are described. In one aspect, a method includes the action of accessing voice query log data that includes voice queries spoken by a particular user. The actions further include based on the voice query log data that includes voice queries spoken by a particular user, determining a pause threshold from the voice query log data that includes voice queries spoken by the particular user. The actions further include receiving, from the particular user, an utterance. The actions further include determining that the particular user has stopped speaking for at least a period of time equal to the pause threshold. The actions further include based on determining that the particular user has stopped speaking for at least a period of time equal to the pause threshold, processing the utterance as a voice query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Siddhi Tadpatrikar, Michael Buchanan, Pravir Kumar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20210312186
    Abstract: Systems and methods of automatically extracting summaries of video content are described herein. A data processing system can access, from a video database, a first video content element including a first plurality of frame. The data processing system can select an intervallic subset of the first plurality of frames of the first video content element. The data processing system can calculate, for each of a plurality of further subsets comprising a predetermined number of frames from the intervallic subset, a score for the further subset. The data processing system can identify, from the plurality of further subsets, a further subset having a highest score. The data processing system can select a portion of the first video content element comprising the frames of the further subset having the highest score. The data processing system can generate a second video content element comprising the selected portion of the first video content element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yi Shen, Xiangrong Chen, Min-hsuan Tsai, Yun Shi, Tianpeng Jin, Zheng Sun, Weilong Yang, Jingbin Wang
  • Publication number: 20210312221
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media utilized to prepare datasets for geo experiments. One method includes receiving one or more input parameters. The method further includes extracting, from the data, training data. The method further includes calculating a difference in input data and a difference in response data of the training data. The method further includes determining a first plurality of geographic pairs. The method further includes extracting, from the data, evaluation data. The method further includes separating each geographic pair of the first plurality of geographic pairs into a treatment region or a control region for a plurality of simulations of a plurality of different simulation subsets for each of a plurality of different subsets of geographic pairs. The method further includes calculating a plurality of uncertainty estimates. The method further includes selecting a first subset of geographic pairs and providing the selected subset of geographic pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aiyou Chen, Timothy C. Au, Nicolas Remy, Kevin Benac
  • Publication number: 20210314860
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for handling Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection while user equipment is in an inactive mode at a radio resource control layer. In aspects, the UE performs a cell-selection procedure that selects a first cell that serves a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN). The UE establishes a radio connection to the first PLMN. The UE transitions from a connected mode at a radio resource control layer to an inactive mode at a radio resource control layer. After a period of time, the UE performs a cell-reselection procedure that selects a second cell that serves a second PLMN. The UE determines if the second PLMN is an equivalent PLMN to the first PLMN. If the second PLMN is an equivalent PLMN to the first PLMN, the UE sends an indication to a lower layer that triggers an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventor: Teming Chen
  • Patent number: 11137909
    Abstract: A communication device, which is capable of presenting one or more of a plurality of virtual keyboards, may be operable to receive application content. The application content may require a user to enter particular data via one of the plurality of virtual keyboards. The plurality of virtual keyboards may comprise a system keyboard and one or more third-party keyboards. The communication device may be operable to determine whether the particular data to be entered by the user may comprise sensitive personal information associated with the user. Based on the determination of the personal information and/or based on a configuration option communicated from the user, the communication device may be operable to determine whether to cause presentation of the system keyboard for the user to enter the particular data. The communication device may cause presentation of the system keyboard by disabling the one or more third-party keyboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Diego Puppin
  • Patent number: 11138207
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method for expression-based retrieval of expressive media content. A request may be received to search for content items in a media content management system. Media content items may be procured from different content sources through application programming interfaces, user devices, and/or web servers. Media content items may be analyzed to determine one or more metadata attributes, including an expressions. Metadata attributes may be stored as one or more content associations. The media content items may be stored and categorized based on the content associations. A search router rules engine may determine search intent based on the search query, which may include a pictorial representation of an expression, such as an emoji. A dynamic interface may be integrated in a device operating system through various access points, including a button, a trigger key, a keyword trigger, and an overlay button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David McIntosh, Erick Hachenburg, Bryan Hart, Kyler Blue, Jeff Sinckler, Steven Dobek
  • Patent number: 11137977
    Abstract: The characteristics of the speaker may be used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker. For instance, a mobile device may generate a user interface that does not permit access to particular applications on the mobile device, that only includes options to call home and access a camera application, or that includes an override option to cause generation of a user interface for a different class of user than a user class for the automatic customizations applied to the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 11138968
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adapting a language model are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving transcriptions of utterances that were received by computing devices operating in a domain and that are in a source language. The actions further include generating translated transcriptions of the transcriptions of the utterances in a target language. The actions further include receiving a language model for the target language. The actions further include biasing the language model for the target language by increasing the likelihood of the language model selecting terms included in the translated transcriptions. The actions further include generating a transcription of an utterance in the target language using the biased language model and while operating in the domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Petar Aleksic, Benjamin Paul Hillson Haynor
  • Patent number: 11138028
    Abstract: A method of resizing a block storage volume for a virtual machine includes executing the virtual machine and attaching a virtual storage device to the virtual machine. The virtual storage device exposes the block storage volume on memory hardware to the virtual machine. The block storage volume includes a first storage capacity. The method also includes mounting the block storage volume to the virtual machine and resizing the block storage volume while the virtual machine continues to execute. The block storage volume is resized without attaching an additional virtual storage device to the virtual machine or mounting an additional block storage volume to the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Igor Belianski, Jay Judkowitz, Andrew Kadatch
  • Patent number: 11138470
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media related to training and/or using a neural network model. The trained neural network model can be utilized to generate (e.g., over a hidden layer) a spectral image based on a regular image, and to generate output indicative of one or more features present in the generated spectral image (and present in the regular image since the spectral image is generated based on the regular image). As one example, a regular image may be applied as input to the trained neural network model, a spectral image generated over multiple layers of the trained neural network model based on the regular image, and output generated over a plurality of additional layers based on the spectral image. The generated output may be indicative of various features, depending on the training of the additional layers of the trained neural network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Alexander Gorban
  • Patent number: 11138476
    Abstract: A method includes identifying images associated with a user, where the image is identified as at least one of captured by a user device associated with the user, stored on the user device associated with the user, and stored in cloud storage associated with the user. The method also includes for each of the images, determining one or more labels, wherein the one or more labels are based on at least one of metadata and a primary annotation. The method also includes generating a mapping of the one or more labels to one or more confidence scores, wherein the one or more confidence scores indicate an extent to which the one or more labels apply to corresponding images. The method also includes interacting with the user to obtain identifying information that is used to categorize one or more of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Robin Dua, Sujith Ravi
  • Patent number: 11138073
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to recovering a computing device are provided. A computing device can determine that the computing device has entered into a corrupted state after being initialized at least a pre-determined number of times during a pre-determined interval of time. The computing device can store at least system data and information about a plurality of changes to the system data. After determining that the computing device has entered into the corrupted state, the computing device can identify untrusted changes to the system data from the plurality of changes, wherein the untrusted changes are made by untrusted entities. The computing device can reset the untrusted changes to the system data to default values. After resetting the untrusted changes to the system data to default values, the computing device can be initialized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Sharkey, Svetoslav Ganov
  • Patent number: 11138161
    Abstract: A system of creating a multi-schema data store of a key-value store may include a computing device, a first computer-readable storage medium portion comprising a multi-schema data store, and a second computer-readable storage medium portion in communication with the first computer-readable storage medium portion. The system may receive data to be added to the multi-schema data store that includes data that is associated with a plurality of schemas, determine a unique identifier associated with the data, and parse the data to identify a plurality of data sets from the received data to be stored in the multi-schema data store. The system creates an entry in the multi-schema data store for each data set, and stores each data set in one of the created entries along with the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: John Anthony Kline
  • Patent number: 11137868
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a first platform to incorporate context of a post from a second platform into a first user interface of the first platform. A system includes a processor that receives, via a post displayed in a second user interface of the second platform, a request for a media content item referenced in the post in the second user interface, the second user interface comprising one or more user interface elements and one or more controls. The processor identifies the one or more user interface elements and one or more controls displayed in the second user interface of the second platform, and provides the one or more controls and at least one of the one or more user interface elements of the post displayed in the second user interface for presentation within the first user interface of the first platform. Further, upon election of one of the one or more controls, the processor causes a user to be presented with the post within the second user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Paun
  • Patent number: 11138615
    Abstract: Location history data can be used to identify attributes for a known geographic location of a business listing record for a business. As an example, location history data is received from each of a plurality of client computing devices. For each device, the location history data identifies an arrival and departure times for the known geographic location as well as prior and next visit information. The location history data is used as input into a classifier in order to identify a set of attributes for the geographic location and corresponding likelihood values for each of the attributes of the set of attributes. A subset of the set of attributes is determined such that the attributes describe aspects of the known geographic location based on the likelihood values. This subset is provided to a client computing device in response to a request for information about the geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Abhimanyu Das, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Wei Lwun Lu, Shuxin Nie
  • Patent number: 11135426
    Abstract: Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Joseph Badros, Stephen Lawrence
  • Patent number: D932428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gina Reimann, Luke David Mastrangelo, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Idil Girard, Peter Michael Cazalet, Benjamin Caleb Carroll, Shameem Hameed, Sandeep Singh Waraich
  • Patent number: D933078
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Edward Leung Chui Jung, Hélène Park
  • Patent number: D933096
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Joseph William Traylor, Sang Yoon Han, Jun Yong Shim, Stephen Anthony Hodge, Judy Zhao