Patents Assigned to Google LLC
  • Patent number: 10685349
    Abstract: A user accesses a merchant system website via a user computing device, selects items for purchase, and selects an option to checkout using a digital wallet account. The user selects payment information associated with a payment card device for use in an online transaction. The merchant system transmits an unpredictable number to the user computing device. The user taps the payment card device to the user computing device to establish a wireless communication channel over which the payment card device receives the unpredictable number. The payment card device transmits payment card information and a check sum calculated from the unpredictable number and by the payment card device to the merchant system via the user computing device. The merchant system transmits the check sum and payment card information in a transaction authorization request to the issuer system, which verifies the check sum using the shared secret and the unpredictable number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lee Brickell, Max Christoff
  • Patent number: 10685680
    Abstract: A method includes grouping media items associated with a user into segments based on a timestamp associated with each media item and a total number of media items. The method also includes selecting target media from the media items for each of the segments based on media attributes associated with the media item. The method also includes generating a video that includes the target media for each of the segments by generating a first animation that illustrates a first transition from a first item from the target media to a second item from the target media with movement of the first item from an onscreen location to an offscreen location, wherein the first item is adjacent to the second item in the first animation and determining whether the target media includes one or more additional items. The method also includes adding a song to the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shengyang Dai, Timothy Sepkoski St. Clair, Koji Ashida, Jingyu Cui, Jay Steele, Qi Gu, Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Ivan Neulander, Flavio Lerda, Eric Charles Henry, Shinko Yuanhsien Cheng, Aravind Krishnaswamy, David Cohen, Pardis Beikzadeh
  • Patent number: 10684633
    Abstract: A circuit includes a monitoring circuit that monitors a voltage and a switching circuit. Closing the switching circuit causes an external AC load to receive power from an external AC source. The circuit further includes a control circuit that opens the switching circuit for a time interval, where the time interval begins after the voltage is below a lower threshold. The control circuit also ends the time interval after the voltage exceeds an upper threshold, where the time interval is short enough that the operation of the AC load is not affected during the time interval. The circuit also includes a power harvesting circuit that harvests power from the external AC source to raise the voltage during the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Adam Warren, Hugo Fiennes, Jonathan Alan Dutra, David Bell, Anthony Michael Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers
  • Patent number: 10686686
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring performance in a distributed storage system described. One example method includes identifying requests sent by clients to the distributed storage system, each request including request parameter values for request parameters; generating probe requests based on the identified requests, the probe requests including probe request parameter values for probe request parameter values, representing a statistical sample of the request parameters included in the identified requests; sending the generated probe requests to the distributed storage system over a network, wherein the distributed storage system is configured to perform preparations for servicing each probe request in response to receiving the probe request; receiving responses to the probe requests from the distributed storage system; and outputting at least one performance metric value measuring a current performance state of the distributed storage system based on the received responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vadim Borisov, Andrew Fikes, Brian F. Cooper
  • Patent number: 10687111
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting improper presentation of content items by applications executing on client devices. A method can include receiving a content package including a first content item, a second content item and an interaction confirmation script, the interaction confirmation script configured to execute within an application and cause the application to detect, responsive to the first content item presented, a first interaction event with the first content item; present, upon detecting the first interaction event on the first content item, the second content item; detect a second interaction event with the second content item; transmit, upon detecting the second interaction event, a confirmation of the first interaction event; and transmit a request to access an information resource linked to the second content item. The method can further include presenting the information resource responsive to the second interaction event on the second content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Priyanshu Jain, Tuna Toksoz, Spencer S. Johnson, Alex Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20200187164
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for user device-initiated requests for resource configuration. In some aspects, a user device can detect one or more conditions related to communicating with a base station over a wireless connection. The user device selects, based on the conditions, a numerology configuration for communicating with the base station. The user device then transmits a request indicating the selected numerology configuration to the base station, which can then allocate resources to the user device based on the request. This may allow the user device to influence a resource configuration that is better suited for communication over one or more channels of the wireless connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20200187281
    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for disengaged-mode active coordination set (ACS) management. A user equipment (110) uses an ACS for joint wireless communication between the user equipment (110) and multiple base stations (120) included in the ACS. The user equipment (110) receives a resource configuration for an ACS Disengaged-mode Reference Signal (ADRS). The user equipment (110) transitions to a disengaged mode (424) and receives the ADRS. The user equipment (110) determines that an updated ACS is required, transmits a message or a sounding signal indicating the need for the updated ACS, and in response, receives the updated ACS from a master base station (121).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Publication number: 20200183998
    Abstract: A system to improve real-time generation of a graphical user interface for overlapping electronic content is described. The system retrieves, responsive to a search request input into a computing device and received via a computer network, places of interest from a places of interest database, and content items from a content item database. The system selects, based on a heuristic technique, a content item as a match for a place of interest. The system combines the content item with the place of interest to prevent a first marker of the content item from obscuring a second marker of the place of interest. The system renders, for display on the graphical user interface via the computing device, a single marker for the content item and the place of interest combined to prevent the first marker of the content item from obscuring the second marker of the place of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Bayliss-McCulloch, Andrew Foster
  • Patent number: 10678345
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for providing a multipurpose remote control are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alok Chandel, Pierre-Yves Laligand
  • Patent number: 10678999
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for coordinating documents between computer systems includes identifying, on a computing device, changes made by a user to a document having a model stored on the computing device, with corresponding models stored on a remote client and a server system; generating from the identified changes, one or more mutations that describe the changes and a one or more locations that correspond to positions in the model where the changes are to be provided; receiving one or more mutations from the server system and transforming the generated mutations using the received mutations; and updating the model stored on the computing device using the transformed mutations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Micah Lemonik, Olga Sergeyevna Saviano, Janani R. Ravi, Nicholas Cooper, Alexey Kalinichenko, John Day-Richter
  • Patent number: 10675955
    Abstract: Some implementations relate to determining whether glare is present in captured image(s) of an object (e.g., a photo) and/or to determining one or more attributes of any present glare. Some of those implementations further relate to adapting one or more parameters for a glare removal process based on whether the glare is determined to be present and/or based on one or more of the determined attributes of any glare determined to be present. Some additional and/or alternative implementations disclosed herein relate to correcting color of a flash image of an object (e.g., a photo). The flash image is based on one or more images captured by a camera of a client device with a flash component of the client device activated. In various implementations, correcting the color of the flash image is based on a determined color space of an ambient image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julia Winn, Abraham Stephens, Daniel Pettigrew, Aaron Maschinot, Ce Liu, Michael Krainin, Michael Rubinstein, Jingyu Cui
  • Patent number: 10681336
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to generating depth data from a video. As an example, one or more computing devices may receive an initialization request for a still image capture mode. After receiving the request to initialize the still image capture mode, the one or more computing devices may automatically begin to capture a video including a plurality of image frames. The one or more computing devices track features between a first image frame of the video and each of the other image frames of the video. Points corresponding to the tracked features may be generated by the one or more computing devices using a set of assumptions. The assumptions may include a first assumption that there is no rotation and a second assumption that there is no translation. The one or more computing devices then generate a depth map based at least in part on the points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Gallup, Fu Yu, Steven Maxwell Seitz
  • Patent number: 10679404
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating shadows for inserted content are provided. The inserted content may include augmented reality content that is inserted into an image of a physical space. An example includes determining a location to insert content within an image. The content may include a polygonal mesh defined in part by a skeleton that has a plurality of joints. Examples may further include selecting a plurality of selected joints form the plurality of joints. Examples may also include generating a shadow polygon based on the content and determining shadow contributions values for the plurality of selected joints for pixels of the shadow polygon. Examples may also include combining the shadow contribution values from the selected joints to generate shadow magnitude values for the pixels, rendering the shadow polygon using the shadow magnitude values, and overlaying the inserted content on the rendered shadow polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ivan Neulander
  • Patent number: 10681417
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating and routing modified multimedia data frames. In one aspect, the method includes maintaining, by a first network node, channel membership data that includes data indicating, for each channel of a plurality of channels, leaf node membership for a plurality of channels, and for each channel of the plurality of channels: determining, based on the channel membership data, the leaf nodes that are subscribed to access the channel, generating, based on the leaf nodes that are subscribed to access the channel, a modified multimedia data frame for the channel that includes (i) a hub node identifier, (ii) data that describes a destination address of each leaf node that is subscribed to access the channel and (iii) a payload, and transmitting, by the first network node, the generated modified multimedia data frame to a second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Jiwoong Lee
  • Patent number: 10678776
    Abstract: An autocheck module of a map system is configured to automatically identify anomalous conditions within map data that may indicate an error within the data. The identification of the anomalous conditions is accomplished by application of different autocheck types to the map data, each autocheck type representing a class of anomalies and being triggered if particular map data exhibits the anomalous condition associated with the autocheck type. In one embodiment, for at least some of the portions of map data that trigger an autocheck type, an issue entry is created in an issue database, the issue entry referencing the autocheck type that was triggered, the map data that triggered it, and any associated data of relevance for the particular autocheck type in question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mohammed Waleed Kadous, Joakim Kristian Olle Arfvidsson, Anup Mantri
  • Patent number: 10679005
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving two or more data sets each representing speech of a corresponding individual attending an internet-based social networking video conference session, decoding the received data sets to produce corresponding text for each individual attending the internet-based social networking video conference, and detecting characteristics of the session from a coalesced transcript produced from the decoded text of the attending individuals for providing context to the internet-based social networking video conference session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Glen Shires, Sterling Swigart, Jonathan Zolla, Jason J. Gauci
  • Patent number: 10681171
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for adjusted mutable aspect content selection. In one aspect, speech input that includes a first request for content that does not include a particular mutable aspect that does change over time is received. A user action performed during a previous time period is identified in stored user actions previously performed by the user. An immutable aspect that does not change over time and the particular mutable aspect that does change over time are identified within the user action. The particular mutable aspect is adjusted based on an amount of time that has elapsed between when the user action was performed and receipt of the first request for content. Auditory feedback is provided based on the immutable aspect, the adjusted particular mutable aspect, and information included in the first request for content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Marcus A. Leal, Emily Kay Moxley
  • Patent number: 10678416
    Abstract: A thermostat for controlling an HVAC system in an enclosure may include a passive infrared sensor, an active infrared sensor, and an electronic display having a first mode and a second mode. The thermostat may also include one or more processors programmed to change a setpoint temperature of the thermostat to an energy-saving temperature upon detection of a non-occupancy condition for the enclosure. The processor(s) may detect the non-occupancy condition based at least in part on readings received from the passive infrared sensor. The processor(s) may also be programmed to change the electronic display from the first mode to the second mode upon detection of a person approaching the thermostat. The processor(s) may detect a person approaching the thermostat based at least in part on readings received from the active infrared sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Fadell, Matthew Rogers, Edwin Satterthwaite, Ian Smith, Daniel Warren, Joseph Palmer, Shigefumi Honjo, Grant Erickson, Jonathan Dutra, Hugo Fiennes
  • Patent number: 10679127
    Abstract: Methods and systems for receiving a request to implement a neural network comprising an average pooling layer on a hardware circuit, and in response, generating instructions that when executed by the hardware circuit, cause the hardware circuit to, during processing of a network input by the neural network, generate a layer output tensor that is equivalent to an output of the average pooling neural network layer by performing a convolution of an input tensor to the average pooling neural network layer and a kernel with a size equal to a window of the average pooling neural network layer and composed of elements that are each an identity matrix to generate a first tensor, and performing operations to cause each element of the first tensor to be divided by a number of elements in the window of the average pooling neural network layer to generate an initial output tensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Reginald Clifford Young, William John Gulland
  • Patent number: 10681392
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for selectively presenting broadcast content based on user interests are provided. In some implementations a method for selectively presenting broadcast content is provided, the method comprising: receiving user information; associating one or more athletes, each on a roster of a team in a sports organization, with the user based on the user information; identifying broadcast programs that a user device can present; determining broadcast programs that depict a game between teams in the sports organization that are relevant to an athlete associated with the user based on program metadata; receiving event metadata for the relevant broadcast programs that is indicative of events in the game depicted therein; determining that a portion of the first broadcast program is relevant to a first entity based on the event metadata; and causing the user device to present the portion of the first broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Mark Diamondstein