Patents by Inventor Rachel Ilan Simpson
Rachel Ilan Simpson 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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Publication number: 20240127792Abstract: An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang
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Patent number: 11887581Abstract: An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang
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Publication number: 20230094174Abstract: An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Benedict Davies, Guillaume Boniface-Chang
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Patent number: 10104341Abstract: Implementations relate to providing animated user identifiers. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes determining that a video call over a communication network is connected between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user. The method stores a set of multiple images that are received by the first device as part of the video call, and forms a motion clip including the set of multiple images and indicating a sequence of the set of multiple images for display. The method assigns the motion clip to a user identifier associated with the second user, and causes display of the motion clip to visually represent the second user in response to the user identifier being displayed in at least one user interface on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Koa Metter, Alan Lee Rogers, Jason Cornwell, Richard Yuan-Ching Lo, Rachel Ilan Simpson, Matthew Thomas Austin, Justin Uberti
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Patent number: 10032040Abstract: Content packs are provided for identifying a plurality of authorized web-based resources, wherein a web browser is configured to prevent access to web-based resources not identified by content packs installed in the web browser. Accordingly one or more of content packs are selected and installed in the web browser, and one or more featured resources are identified from a plurality of authorized web-based resources provided by the installed content packs. An account access page provided by the web browser is automatically configured with one or more access links corresponding to the one or more featured resources, with each featured resource providing a web-based entry point to one or more web-based resources made available by the installed one or more content packs.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Rachel Ilan Simpson, Patrick Louis Maurice Nepper, Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen, Pamela Lori Greene, Bernhard K. Bauer, Manuel Christian Clement, Wieland Holfelder, Juin-Kai Chou, Sergiu Iordache, Hagen Fritsch, Markus Heintz, Roma Rajni Shah
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Publication number: 20180109760Abstract: Implementations relate to providing animated user identifiers. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes determining that a video call over a communication network is connected between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user. The method stores a set of multiple images that are received by the first device as part of the video call, and forms a motion clip including the set of multiple images and indicating a sequence of the set of multiple images for display. The method assigns the motion clip to a user identifier associated with the second user, and causes display of the motion clip to visually represent the second user in response to the user identifier being displayed in at least one user interface on the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Koa METTER, Alan Lee ROGERS, Jason CORNWELL, Richard Yuan-Ching LO, Rachel Ilan SIMPSON, Matthew Thomas AUSTIN, Justin UBERTI
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Patent number: 9871996Abstract: Implementations relate to providing animated user identifiers. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes determining that a video call over a communication network is connected between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user. The method stores a set of multiple images that are received by the first device as part of the video call, and forms a motion clip including the set of multiple images and indicating a sequence of the set of multiple images for display. The method assigns the motion clip to a user identifier associated with the second user, and causes display of the motion clip to visually represent the second user in response to the user identifier being displayed in at least one user interface on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Koa Metter, Alan Lee Rogers, Jason Cornwell, Richard Yuan-Ching Lo, Rachel Ilan Simpson, Matthew Thomas Austin, Justin Uberti
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Publication number: 20170332045Abstract: Implementations relate to providing animated user identifiers. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes determining that a video call over a communication network is connected between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user. The method stores a set of multiple images that are received by the first device as part of the video call, and forms a motion clip including the set of multiple images and indicating a sequence of the set of multiple images for display. The method assigns the motion clip to a user identifier associated with the second user, and causes display of the motion clip to visually represent the second user in response to the user identifier being displayed in at least one user interface on the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Koa METTER, Alan Lee ROGERS, Jason CORNWELL, Richard Yuan-Ching LO, Rachel Ilan SIMPSON, Matthew Thomas AUSTIN
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Patent number: 9532004Abstract: Implementations relate to providing animated user identifiers. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes determining that a video call over a communication network is connected between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user. The method stores a set of multiple images that are received by the first device as part of the video call, and forms a motion clip including the set of multiple images and indicating a sequence of the set of multiple images for display. The method assigns the motion clip to a user identifier associated with the second user, and causes display of the motion clip to visually represent the second user in response to the user identifier being displayed in at least one user interface on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Koa Metter, Alan Lee Rogers, Jason Cornwell, Richard Yuan-Ching Lo, Rachel Ilan Simpson, Matthew Thomas Austin