Patents Assigned to Google LLC
  • Patent number: 11979705
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for adjusting the playback speed of accessories based on the buffer level of the received content. The accessories may receive content from a host device at a certain speed. The incoming speed of the content may be different than the playback speed of the content. Therefore, a buffer level of the received content may be determined using a linear least square (“LLS”) fit of the buffer level, the average of the buffer level, or a phased locked loop (“PLL”) approach. Based on a difference between the buffer level and the playback speed, a speed adjustment may be determined. Instructions may be transmitted from a primary accessory to a secondary accessory to adjust the playback speed by a certain amount at a certain time. This may ensure that the accessories remain in sync. The accessories may then adjust their respective playback speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yongkang Jia, Jeffrey Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 11978335
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first computing device (110) and from a second computing device (118), using a short-range wireless communication unit of the first computing device (110), data including state information of the second computing device (118) and identification information for the second computing device (118). The method also includes, responsive to a distance between the first computing device (110) and the second computing device (118) satisfying a threshold distance, determining a particular template graphical user interface from a plurality of template graphical user interfaces. The method also includes determining one or more operations the second computing device (118) is configured to perform. The method further includes outputting a graphical user interface (114) associated with the remote computing device (118).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Miroslav Bojic, Rohan Dhing, Zhengnan Zhao, Michael DelGaudio, Henry Holland, Mårten Jönsson, Ding Xu, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Mikkel Crone Koser
  • Patent number: 11978432
    Abstract: Processor(s) of a client device can: identify a textual segment stored locally at the client device; process the textual segment, using a speech synthesis model stored locally at the client device, to generate synthesized speech audio data that includes synthesized speech of the identified textual segment; process the synthesized speech, using an on-device speech recognition model that is stored locally at the client device, to generate predicted output; and generate a gradient based on comparing the predicted output to ground truth output that corresponds to the textual segment. In some implementations, the generated gradient is used, by processor(s) of the client device, to update weights of the on-device speech recognition model. In some implementations, the generated gradient is additionally or alternatively transmitted to a remote system for use in remote updating of global weights of a global speech recognition model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Françoise Beaufays, Johan Schalkwyk, Khe Chai Sim
  • Patent number: 11978721
    Abstract: The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a substrate. An IC die may be mounted to the substrate. One or more photonic modules may be attached to the substrate and one or more serializer/deserializer (SerDes) interfaces may connect the IC die to the one or more photonic modules. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die and the one or more photonic modules may include a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and fiber array. The one or more photonic modules may be mounted to one or more additional substrates which may be attached to the substrate via one or more sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Woon-Seong Kwon, Namhoon Kim, Teckgyu Kang, Ryohei Urata
  • Patent number: 11977492
    Abstract: A cloud implementation of a persisted storage device, such as a disk, is provided. The implementation supports a variety of features and protocols, in full analogy with a physical storage device such as a disk drive. The present disclosure provides for implementing standard eDrive protocols in the cloud by designing internal disk storage, referred to as a “system area,” in a virtual disk instance that the virtual disk can potentially utilize for a multitude of disk features. This internal storage can be used to implement eDrive protocols, which use the system area to maintain the necessary internal virtual disk state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Richey, Michael Halcrow, Sergey Karamov
  • Patent number: 11975919
    Abstract: An automated cargo delivery system is provided, including an automated guided vehicle having a housing defining a recess therein and a propulsion system configured to move the housing. The recess may be configured to receive a plurality of swappable carriers each having a uniform width in a horizontal direction and a uniform height in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction. Each of the swappable carriers may be configured to be engaged within the recess. The plurality of swappable carriers may include a first swappable carrier and a second swappable carrier. A method of delivering cargo with the automated guided vehicle is also provided. The method may include alternatingly inserting and engaging the first swappable carrier and the second swappable carrier into the recess of the automated guided vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nathanael Arling Worden, Samuel Gardner Garrett, David Kyle Funnell, Karl Eric Schrader
  • Patent number: 11979476
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a high performance connection scheduler for reliable transport protocols in data center networking. The connection scheduler can handle enqueue events, dequeue events, and update events. The connection scheduler can include a connection queue, scheduling queue, and quality of service arbiter to support scheduling a large number of connections at a high rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Weihuang Wang, Weiwei Jiang, Srinivas Vaduvatha, Jiazhen Zheng
  • Patent number: 11978378
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first set of pixels that each include a respective red sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel and a second set of pixels that each include a respective blue sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel, where the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels are arranged on the display panel such that at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is adjacent to at least one of the pixels in the second set of pixels, at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is not adjacent to any pixel, and the green sub-pixels are arranged on the display panel such that the green sub-pixels are evenly distributed in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Morris Hoffman, Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 11979465
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recommending media content to a user based on information associated with a referral source that referred the user to a media item provided by a source of the media content are presented. In one or more aspects, a system is provided that includes a presentation component that presents, via user a interface, a first media item associated with a media presentation source referred to a user through a referral source. The system further includes an analytics component that identifies a second media item based on media items associated with the media presentation source that are referred to other users through the referral source, and a recommendation component that recommends the second media item to the user through the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Kevin Greene
  • Patent number: 11980010
    Abstract: This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a media-streaming device. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heat spreaders and materials with high thermal-conductivity. The thermal-control system may spread, transfer, and dissipate energy from a thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the media-streaming device to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the media-streaming device at or below multiple respective prescribed temperature thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Frédéric Heckmann, Ihab A. Ali
  • Patent number: 11977499
    Abstract: Generally disclosed herein is a hardware/software interface for asynchronous data movement between an off-core memory and a core-local memory, referred to as “stream transfers”, and a stream ordering model. The stream transfers allow software to more efficiently express common data-movement patterns, specifically ones seen in sparse workloads. Direct stream instructions that belong to a stream are processed in-order. For indirect stream instructions, offset elements in an offset list are processed in order. A sync flag is updated to indicate monotonic incremental progress for the stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Nagarajan, Arpith Chacko Jacob, Suvinay Subramanian, Hema Hariharan
  • Patent number: 11978091
    Abstract: The technology generally relates to automatically associating products and services to be advertised in response to a search query and providing sponsored advertisements for output with the search query results on a publisher's website or mobile application. An ad advertiser may create an ad campaign for products without including or identifying keywords associated with the product. Upon receiving a request for an advertisement, an ad server may generate synonyms, or keywords, for the terms in the request. The ad server generated keywords may be used to identify available products that match, or are relevant to, the search query. The ad server may determine a quality of the match and, based on the quality, determine which products are most relevant to the search query. The ad server may solicit bids from the advertisers of the relevant ad campaigns. The winning ads may be returned to the publisher for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alok Anilkumar Sheth, Enoch Chee-Lok Lau, Brett Alexander Benowitz, Dharma Muppalla, Noah Ronald Freeman, Eric Lo
  • Patent number: 11979038
    Abstract: The technology provides for a system for determining wireless charging alignment. In this regard, one or more processors may receive motion data from one or more sensors of a computing device indicating a motion of the computing device. The one or more processors may also receive charging data related to a state of an energy storage of the computing device or a state of energy transfer between a wireless charger and the computing device. Based on the motion data and the charging data, a reference vector associated with at least two charging rates may be determined. An alignment vector between the computing device and the wireless charger may then be determined based on the reference vector and the associated charging rates. Based on the alignment vector, an output may be generated guiding movement of the computing device to align with the wireless charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Granito, Katherine Blair Huffman
  • Patent number: 11978141
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating images. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving an input text prompt including a sequence of text tokens in a natural language; processing the input text prompt using a text encoder neural network to generate a set of contextual embeddings of the input text prompt; and processing the contextual embeddings through a sequence of generative neural networks to generate a final output image that depicts a scene that is described by the input text prompt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, Mohammad Norouzi, Saurabh Saxena, Yi Li, Jay Ha Whang, David James Fleet, Jonathan Ho
  • Patent number: 11977649
    Abstract: In an implementation, a method includes causing a source application data object to be embedded in a host application file and recording information associated with the source application data object in a common data store. It further includes identifying a modification made to the embedded source application data object, sending a notification to the source application to update a corresponding source copy of the source application data object based on the modification made to the embedded source application data object, and recording the modification in the common data store. The method also includes identifying a change made to the source copy of the source application data object, and causing the host application to update the embedded source application data object in the host application data store according to access permissions of the host application file, and recording the change in the common data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Behnoosh Hariri, Konstantin Yakovlev
  • Patent number: 11977953
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the processing of machine-readable visual encodings in view of contextual information. One embodiment of aspects of the present disclosure comprises obtaining image data descriptive of a scene that includes a machine-readable visual encoding; processing the image data with a first recognition system configured to recognize the machine-readable visual encoding; processing the image data with a second, different recognition system configured to recognize a surrounding portion of the scene that surrounds the machine-readable visual encoding; identifying a stored reference associated with the machine-readable visual encoding based at least in part on one or more first outputs generated by the first recognition system based on the image data and based at least in part on one or more second outputs generated by the second recognition system based on the image data; and performing one or more actions responsive to identification of the stored reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Alexander James Faaborg, Brett Aladdin Barros
  • Patent number: 11977431
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides techniques, systems, and apparatus for proactively detecting, containing, and recovering from uncorrectable memory errors in distributed computing environment. An aspect of the disclosed technology includes scanning, by a scanner of a host machine, memory of the host machine for errors. After the scanner detects an error, the scanner may generate an error notification. The scanner may transmit the error notification to one or more processors of the host machine to implement mitigation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jue Wang, Gregory Thelen, Andrew Christopher Walton, Yi Cao, James Houghton
  • Patent number: 11979497
    Abstract: Identity systems, methods, and media for auditing and notifying users concerning verifiable claims are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Stein, John Wittrock
  • Patent number: 11980057
    Abstract: A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a through-transmissive area of a display. The through-transmissive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the through-transmissive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements, and a light blocking layer to prevent light from diffracting from gaps formed by circuit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: D1026031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Norman