Patents Assigned to Google LLC
  • Patent number: 11514230
    Abstract: A computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors is described. The computer system displays at least a portion of the respective document, and while displaying at least the portion of the respective document, receives a request for document operation labels. The document operation labels correspond to respective document operations. In response to receiving the request for document operation labels, the computer system selects a plurality of document operation labels at least in accordance with user data and user-interface data corresponding to a respective user of the computer system, and provides the plurality of document operation labels for display to the respective user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Simon Raess, Ronald Ho, Vance Vagell
  • Patent number: 11513565
    Abstract: This application is directed to a speaker assembly in which a speaker is mounted in an enclosure structure. The enclosure structure exposes a speaker opening of the speaker and provides a sealed enclosure for a rear portion of the speaker, and further includes an electrically conductive portion. One or more electronic components are coupled to the electrically conductive portion of the enclosure structure (which is grounded in some implementations). The electrically conductive portion of the enclosure structure is configured to provide electromagnetic shielding for the electronic components and forms part of the sealed enclosure of the speaker. In some implementations, the electrically conductive portion of the enclosure structure is thermally coupled to the electronic components and acts as a heat sink that is configured to absorb heat generated by the electronic components and dissipate the generated heat away from the electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoping Qin, Christen Cameron Bilger, Frederic Heckmann, Frances Kwee, Justin Leong, James Castro
  • Patent number: 11514156
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to the native code module and processes the input data using the native code module to obtain output data. Finally, the system provides the output data to the web application for use by the web application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Evangelos Kokkevis, Matthew Papakipos, David C. Sehr
  • Patent number: 11516630
    Abstract: Techniques for adjusting operation of an electronic device are described. In an example, while the electronic device is operating in a first operating mode according to a first parameter, a set of signals indicating an object in a room, and based on received reflected radar signals, are transmitted by a radar transceiver of the electronic device to one or more processors of the electronic device. By analyzing the set of signals to identify the object as a person, the one or more processors determine that the room is occupied. In accordance with determining that the room is occupied by the person, the electronic device is adjusted to operate in a second operating mode according to a second parameter suitable for sensing objects at a closer distance than the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brian Silverstein, Eden Sherry
  • Patent number: 11514888
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input text utterance to be synthesized into expressive speech having an intended prosody and a target voice and generating, using a first text-to-speech (TTS) model, an intermediate synthesized speech representation tor the input text utterance. The intermediate synthesized speech representation possesses the intended prosody. The method also includes providing the intermediate synthesized speech representation to a second TTS model that includes an encoder portion and a decoder portion. The encoder portion is configured to encode the intermediate synthesized speech representation into an utterance embedding that specifies the intended prosody. The decoder portion is configured to process the input text utterance and the utterance embedding to generate an output audio signal of expressive speech that has the intended prosody specified by the utterance embedding and speaker characteristics of the target voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lev Finkelstein, Chun-An Chan, Byungha Chun, Ye Jia, Yu Zhang, Robert Andrew James Clark, Vincent Wan
  • Patent number: 11516279
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by an application executing on a computing device, a first environment with a first identifier, in response to a first request comprising an authentication code. The method further includes associating, by the application, the first identifier with the authentication code, sending, by the application, a second request comprising the first identifier and the authentication code, and in response to sending the second request, receiving, by the application, a second environment with a second identifier. The second environment is a version snapshot of the first environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brian Kuhn, Shengyue Ji, Xin Liu
  • Patent number: 11514346
    Abstract: A system and method includes receiving a first context update for an application. The method determines whether one or more of multiple rules has been satisfied in view of the first context update. The multiple rules include a multiple conditions and are associated with multiple contextual situations. The determining includes minimizing a number of the multiple conditions to be evaluated to determine whether a particular rule of the multiple rules has been satisfied. The method responsive to determining a first rule of the multiple rules has been satisfied, identifies a first contextual situation of the multiple contextual situations that is associated with the first rule. The method also determines at least one action that is associated with the first contextual situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Fischbacher
  • Patent number: 11516162
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating contextually relevant messages are provided. In some embodiments, a method for generating contextually relevant messages is provided, the method comprising: requesting content from a content source; receiving a content item; causing the content item to be presented using a display device; causing an endorsement indication corresponding to an endorsing user to be concurrently presented with the content item, wherein a user associated with the request for content and the endorsing user are social connections; receiving user input selecting the endorsement indication; causing a temporary messaging interface including a temporary message from the user to the endorsing user to be presented; causing a permanent message to be created based on the temporary message and received user input; and causing the permanent message to be presented to the endorsing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Gavin James
  • Patent number: 11516555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vinit Deshpande, Kishore Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11516580
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for ambient background noise modification are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: identifying at least one noise present in an environment of a user having a user device, an activity the user is currently engaged in, and a physical or emotional state of the user; determining a target ambient noise to be produced in the environment based at least in part on the identified noise, the activity the user is currently engaged in, and the physical or emotional state of the user; identifying at least one device associated with the user device to be used to produce the target ambient noise; determining sound outputs corresponding to each of the one or more identified devices, wherein a combination of the sound outputs produces an approximation of one or more characteristics of the target ambient noise; and causing the one or more identified devices to produce the determined sound outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Charles Goran, Eric H. C. Liu, Kevin Brune, Duane Richard Valz
  • Patent number: 11513724
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing data on a memory controller. One of the methods comprises obtaining a first request and a second request to access respective data corresponding to the first and second requests at a first memory device of the plurality of memory devices; and initiating interleaved processing of the respective data; receiving an indication to stop processing requests to access data at the first memory device and to initiate processing requests to access data at a second memory device, determining that the respective data corresponding to the first and second requests have not yet been fully processed at the time of receiving the indication, and in response, storing, in memory accessible to the memory controller, data corresponding to the requests which have not yet been fully processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Amin Farmahini, Benjamin Steel Gelb, Gurushankar Rajamani, Sukalpa Biswas
  • Patent number: 11514313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a data sample in response to a request for a data sample. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request for a new data sample; until a candidate new data sample is generated that satisfies an acceptance criterion, performing operations comprising: generating a candidate new data sample using a generator neural network; processing the candidate new data sample using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; and determining, from the imitation score, whether the candidate new data sample satisfies the acceptance criterion; and providing the candidate new data sample that satisfies the acceptance criterion in response to the received request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Samaneh Azadi, Ian Goodfellow, Catherine Olsson, Augustus Quadrozzi Odena
  • Patent number: 11516272
    Abstract: A method of synchronizing sub-systems each including a master device and at least one slave device connected to the master device via Bluetooth for playback by the at least one slave device of audio data. The method includes collecting respective internal latency data of the sub-systems, determining, based on the internal latency data of the plurality of sub-systems, respective delays to be applied by the sub-systems between reception of the audio data and playback of the audio data by the slave devices of the sub-system, and, by each sub-system, applying the corresponding delay for playback of the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Julien Goupy, Matthieu Guesnerot
  • Patent number: 11516275
    Abstract: A method of rotating assigned credentials for client devices registering with servers may include determining that assigned credentials for a client device are expired; in response to determining that the assigned credentials have expired, generating new credentials for the client device; sending the new credentials to the client device; generating an encrypted version of the new credentials and storing the encrypted version of the new credentials at the server during a grace period, where during the grace period the client device can be authenticated using the assigned credentials or the new credentials; and deleting the encrypted version of the new credentials at an expiration of the grace period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Senthilvasan Supramaniam, Osborne B. Hardison, Jay D. Logue, Jared A. Luxemberg
  • Publication number: 20220374470
    Abstract: A media application selects, from a collection of images associated with a user account, candidate pairs of images, where each pair includes a first static image and a second static image from the user account. The media application applies a filter to select a particular pair of images from the candidate pairs of images. The media application generates, using an image interpolator, one or more intermediate images based on the particular pair of images. The media application generates a video that includes three or more frames arranged in a sequence, where a first frame of the sequence is the first static image, a last frame of the sequence is the second static image, and each of the one or more intermediate images is a corresponding intermediate frame of the sequence between the first frame and the last frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Janne KONTKANEN, Jamie ASPINALL, Dominik KAESER, Navin SARMA, Brian CURLESS, David SALESIN
  • Publication number: 20220374925
    Abstract: A method includes generating a utility portal interface in response to a request from a utility computer system that receives parameters that specify a demand response event; providing a display of groups of energy-consuming locations that are available to be selected to participate in the demand response event; providing a display of an energy demand profile for the utility during the demand response event; receiving a selection of a subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations to participate in the demand response event; causing the display of the energy demand profile for the utility during the demand response event to be dynamically updated as the subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations are selected or deselected by the utility computer system to participate; and sending transmissions to thermostats associated with the subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations to execute the demand response event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka, Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew L. Rogers, David Sloo, Scott A. McGaraghan, Samuel W. Kortz
  • Publication number: 20220376803
    Abstract: A method includes requesting, from a plurality of mobile devices, electromagnetic (EM) path loss data characterizing EM loss between two different geographical points. For each mobile device, the method includes receiving, from the respective mobile device, a first EM signal strength value characterizing EM loss between a first geographical point and a second geographical point. The method also includes receiving, from the respective mobile device, a second EM signal strength value characterizing EM loss between the first geographical point and a third geographical point. The method also includes determining a respective relative path loss between the second geographical point and the third geographical point using the first and second EM signal strength values. The method also includes generating, using the respective relative path loss of each mobile device, an EM propagation model for a geographical area that encompasses the first and second geographical points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventor: Preston Marshall
  • Publication number: 20220375492
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input audio signal corresponding to utterances spoken by multiple speakers. The method also includes encoding the input audio signal into a sequence of T temporal embeddings. During each of a plurality of iterations each corresponding to a respective speaker of the multiple speakers, the method includes selecting a respective speaker embedding for the respective speaker by determining a probability that the corresponding temporal embedding includes a presence of voice activity by a single new speaker for which a speaker embedding was not previously selected during a previous iteration and selecting the respective speaker embedding for the respective speaker as the temporal embedding. The method also includes, at each time step, predicting a respective voice activity indicator for each respective speaker of the multiple speakers based on the respective speaker embeddings selected during the plurality of iterations and the temporal embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Grangier, Neil Zeghidour, Oliver Teboul
  • Publication number: 20220376981
    Abstract: A method for arbitrarily grouping computer system resources includes receiving a resource policy to be applied to a group of resources associated with a user. The resource policy includes a unique user-defined label assigned to each resource of the group of resources. The method also includes identifying the group of resources among a plurality of resources using the user-defined label. Here, the plurality of resources is associated with the user and distributed across a plurality of different computing environments. For each identified resource of the group of resources, the method also includes applying the resource policy to a corresponding identified resource by accessing the respective computing environment where the corresponding identified resource resides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cyrus Harvesf, Marco Cavalli
  • Publication number: 20220375205
    Abstract: A method includes receiving image data including a series of image patches of an image. The method includes generating, using a first set of transformers of a vision transformer (V-T) model, a first set of higher order feature representations based on the series of image patches and aggregating the first set of higher order feature representations into a second set of higher order feature representations that is smaller than the first set. The method includes generating, using a second set of transformers of the V-T model, a third set of higher order feature representations based on the second set of higher order feature representations and aggregating the third set of higher order feature representations into a fourth set of higher order feature representations that is smaller than the third set. The method includes generating, using the V-T model, an image classification of the image based on the fourth set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zizhao Zhang, Han Zhang, Long Zhao, Tomas Pfister