Patents by Inventor Okan Kolak
Okan Kolak has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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DYNAMICALLY DELAYING EXECUTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTIONS AND/OR BACKGROUND APPLICATION REQUESTS
Publication number: 20210335356Abstract: Implementations set forth herein allow a user to access a first application in a foreground of a graphical interface, and simultaneously employ an automated assistant to respond to notifications arising from a second application. The user can provide an input, such as a spoken utterance, while viewing the first application in the foreground in order to respond to notifications from the second application without performing certain intervening steps that can arise under certain circumstances. Such intervening steps can include providing a user confirmation, which can be bypassed, and/or time-limited according to a timer, which can be displayed in response to the user providing a responsive input directed at the notification. A period for the timer can be set according to one or more characteristics that are associated with the notification, the user, and/or any other information that can be associated with the user receiving the notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Denis Burakov, Sergey Nazarov, Behshad Behzadi, Mario Bertschler, Bohdan Vlasyuk, Daniel Cotting, Michael Golikov, Lucas Mirelmann, Steve Cheng, Zaheed Sabur, Okan Kolak, Yan Zhong, Vinh Quoc Ly -
Publication number: 20210274036Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indicating callers for incoming voice calls to a shared device among multiple users. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions receiving an incoming voice call, determining a calling number and a called number from the incoming voice call, identifying a user account that corresponds to the called number, determining a contact name for the calling number based on contact entries for the user account, and providing the audible contact name for output to the device speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Ahmet Onur Tekdas, Raunaq Shah, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang, Okan Kolak
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Patent number: 11089151Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance that requests a voice call is received, the utterance is classified as spoken by a particular known user, the particular known user is determined to be associated with a personal voice number, and in response to determining that the particular known user is associated with a personal voice number, the voice call is initiated with the personal voice number.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Patent number: 11057515Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance that requests a voice call is received, the utterance is classified as spoken by a particular known user, in response to classifying the utterance as spoken by the particular known user, a recipient voice number to call is determined based on contacts for the particular known user, and the voice call to the recipient voice number is initiated.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Publication number: 20210092225Abstract: In some implementations, a determination that a first party has spoken a query for a voice-enabled virtual assistant during a voice call between the first party and a second party is made, in response to the determination that the first party has spoken the query for the voice-enabled virtual assistant during the voice call between the first party and the second party, the voice call between the first party and the second party is placed on hold, a determination that the voice-enabled virtual assistant has resolved the query is made, and in response to the determination that the voice-enabled virtual assistant has handled the query, the voice call between the first party and the second party is resumed from hold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Patent number: 10911594Abstract: In some implementations, a determination that a first party has spoken a query for a voice-enabled virtual assistant during a voice call between the first party and a second party is made, in response to the determination that the first party has spoken the query for the voice-enabled virtual assistant during the voice call between the first party and the second party, the voice call between the first party and the second party is placed on hold, a determination that the voice-enabled virtual assistant has resolved the query is made, and in response to the determination that the voice-enabled virtual assistant has handled the query, the voice call between the first party and the second party is resumed from hold.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Publication number: 20210029131Abstract: Techniques are described herein for automatically permitting interactive assistant modules to provide access to resources controlled by users. In various implementations, an interactive assistant module may receive a request by a first user for access to a given resource controlled by a second user. The interactive assistant module may lack prior permission to provide the first user access to the given resource. The interactive assistant module may determine attribute(s) of a relationship between the first and second users, as well as attribute(s) of other relationship(s) between the second user and other user(s) for which the interactive assistant module has prior permission to provide access to the given resource. The interactive assistant module may compare the attribute(s) of the relationship with the attribute(s) of the other relationship(s), and may conditionally assume, based on the comparing, permission to provide the first user access to the given resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Timo Mertens, Okan Kolak
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Publication number: 20210014354Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance that requests a voice call is received, the utterance is classified as spoken by a particular known user, the particular known user is determined to be associated with a personal voice number, and in response to determining that the particular known user is associated with a personal voice number, the voice call is initiated with the personal voice number.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Patent number: 10877978Abstract: Implementations describe ranking communities based on members. A method includes receiving input of data entered into a search field, predicting a search term based on the data, determining communities associated with a social network that satisfy a content match rule directed to a match between the predicted search term and information identifying the communities, the determined communities having scores that are based on results of the content match rule as applied to the communities, determining levels of reputations of the members of the determined communities that satisfy the content match rule, modifying the scores for the determined communities based on the determined levels of the reputations of the members, ranking the determined communities based on the modified scores, and providing identification of the predicted search term and the determined communities, where the determined communities are presented in a ranked order in accordance with the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Bryan Christopher Horling, Okan Kolak
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Patent number: 10795947Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating terms of a search query based on a user's spoken utterances, identifying multiple cross-platform messages based on the generated terms, and to generating, via a presentation device, a single interface that enables the user to interact with identified messages. Based on a spoken utterance, the disclosed embodiments may determine user-specified search terms and/or criteria, and based on the user-specified search terms and/or criteria, may obtain cross-platform message data that corresponds to the search query. The communications device may generate one or more interface elements that describe corresponding ones of the cross-platform messages, which may be presented within a unified graphical user interface or voice-user interface by a communications device.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Ahmet Onur Tekdas, Timo Mertens, Okan Kolak, Charles Randell Sievert, Christine Nguyen, Jin Lu
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Patent number: 10791215Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance that requests a voice call is received, the utterance is classified as spoken by a particular known user, the particular known user is determined to be associated with a personal voice number, and in response to determining that the particular known user is associated with a personal voice number, the voice call is initiated with the personal voice number.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Publication number: 20200151223Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating terms of a search query based on a user's spoken utterances, identifying multiple cross-platform messages based on the generated terms, and to generating, via a presentation device, a single interface that enables the user to interact with identified messages. Based on a spoken utterance, the disclosed embodiments may determine user-specified search terms and/or criteria, and based on the user-specified search terms and/or criteria, may obtain cross-platform message data that corresponds to the search query. The communications device may generate one or more interface elements that describe corresponding ones of the cross-platform messages, which may be presented within a unified graphical user interface or voice-user interface by a communications device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Ahmet Onur Tekdas, Timo Mertens, Okan Kolak, Charles Randell Sievert, Christine Nguyen, Jin Lu
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Publication number: 20200075002Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: April Pufahl, Jared Strawderman, Harry Yu, Adriana Olmos Antillon, Jonathan Livni, Okan Kolak, James Giangola, Nitin Khandelwal, Jason Kearns, Andrew Watson, Joseph Ashear, Valerie Nygaard
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Publication number: 20190235888Abstract: Techniques are described herein for leveraging information about a user to enable a personal assistant module to make various inferences about what actions that may be responsive to a user declaration. In various implementations, upon identifying a user declaration received at a computing device, a plurality of candidate responsive actions that can be initiated by the computing device in response to the user declaration may be identified. A single candidate responsive action may then be non-deterministically (e.g., randomly, stochastically) selected to be exclusively initiated on the computing device in response to the user declaration.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Cheng Li, BO Wang, Okan Kolak, Peter Hodgson, Deniz Binay, Dhruv Amin, Pravir Gupta, Nitin Shetti, Javier Rey
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Publication number: 20190207946Abstract: Techniques are described herein for automatically permitting interactive assistant modules to provide access to resources controlled by users. In various implementations, an interactive assistant module may receive a request by a first user for access to a given resource controlled by a second user. The interactive assistant module may lack prior permission to provide the first user access to the given resource. The interactive assistant module may determine attribute(s) of a relationship between the first and second users, as well as attribute(s) of other relationship(s) between the second user and other user(s) for which the interactive assistant module has prior permission to provide access to the given resource. The interactive assistant module may compare the attribute(s) of the relationship with the attribute(s) of the other relationship(s), and may conditionally assume, based on the comparing, permission to provide the first user access to the given resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Timo Mertens, Okan Kolak
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Patent number: 10282218Abstract: Techniques are described herein for leveraging information about a user to enable a personal assistant module to make various inferences about what actions that may be responsive to a user declaration. In various implementations, upon identifying a user declaration received at a computing device, a plurality of candidate responsive actions that can be initiated by the computing device in response to the user declaration may be identified. A single candidate responsive action may then be non-deterministically (e.g., randomly, stochastically) selected to be exclusively initiated on the computing device in response to the user declaration.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Cheng Li, Bo Wang, Okan Kolak, Peter Hodgson, Deniz Binay, Dhruv Amin, Pravir Gupta, Nitin Shetti, Javier Rey
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Publication number: 20190102393Abstract: Methods and apparatus for ranking contact entries. Some implementations are directed generally to ranking a contact entry of a user relative to one or more additional information items and providing information related to the contact entry and/or the additional information items based on the ranking. For example, a contact entry of a user may be identified based on a query and a score determined for the contact entry. An additional information item may also be identified based on the query and a score determined for the additional information item. The contact entry and the additional information item may be ranked based on their scores and information related to the contact entry and/or the additional information item may be provided based on the ranking.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2014Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Bryan Christopher Horling, Okan Kolak, Rosa Wu
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Patent number: 10162823Abstract: Methods and apparatus for populating a contact entry of a user based on information obtained from one or more sources that are external to the contact entry. Some implementations are directed generally to analyzing text of a document associated with the user to identify contact information in the document. In some versions of those implementations, an affinity measure associated with the document may be determined that is indicative of an amount of interest of the user in the document and a contact entry may be populated with one or more aspects of the contact information based on the affinity measure satisfying a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Bryan Christopher Horling, Okan Kolak, Rosa Wu
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Publication number: 20180338037Abstract: In some implementations, an utterance that requests a voice call is received, the utterance is classified as spoken by a particular known user, the particular known user is determined to be associated with a personal voice number, and in response to determining that the particular known user is associated with a personal voice number, the voice call is initiated with the personal voice number.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang
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Publication number: 20180337962Abstract: In some implementations, a determination that a first party has spoken a query for a voice-enabled virtual assistant during a voice call between the first party and a second party is made, in response to the determination that the first party has spoken the query for the voice-enabled virtual assistant during the voice call between the first party and the second party, the voice call between the first party and the second party is placed on hold, a determination that the voice-enabled virtual assistant has resolved the query is made, and in response to the determination that the voice-enabled virtual assistant has handled the query, the voice call between the first party and the second party is resumed from hold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Vinh Quoc Ly, Raunaq Shah, Okan Kolak, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang