Patents Assigned to Google LLC
  • Patent number: 11921477
    Abstract: Embodiments provided herein relate to enforcing a device restriction policy. A device restriction policy may be stored that maps one or more portions of a household with particular household occupants of a plurality of household occupants. A request may be received to activate the device restriction policy on a household occupant. The device restriction policy may be activated against the household occupant based on the received request. One or more electronic devices may be disabled that are located in a portion of the household linked with the household occupant based on the received request and the device restriction policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Anthony M. Fadell, Yoky Matsuoka, David Sloo, Maxime Veron
  • Patent number: 11921691
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a series of writes that each requests respective data to be stored at a database. For each respective write, the method includes storing the respective data in a first buffer associated with a first data streaming application and a second buffer associated with a second data streaming application. The method includes transmitting the respective data to the database. The method includes receiving, from the database, confirmation that the respective data of the respective write has been committed to the database. The confirmation includes an order indicator indicating an order the respective data of the respective write was committed to the database relative to other writes in the series of writes. In response to receiving the confirmation, the method includes sending the respective data from the first buffer to the first data streaming application and from the second buffer to the second data streaming application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Han Samuel Kang, Mateusz Szymon Matejczyk, Justin Santa Barbara, Daniel Veritas Smith, Wojciech Tyczynski, Wenjia Zhang, Joe Betz
  • Patent number: 11922188
    Abstract: A method of providing a workspace graphical user interface (GUI) for a user of a cloud-based content management platform includes providing the workspace GUI for the user via the cloud-based content management platform. The workspace GUI presents visual representations of documents stored on the user's cloud storage of the cloud-based content management platform and visual representations of workspaces created by the user. Each workspace includes a set of documents previously added to a respective workspace by the user and stored on the user's cloud storage. The method further includes receiving, via the workspace GUI, a user input with respect to a corresponding document stored on the user's cloud storage. The user input indicates a request to add the corresponding document to a particular workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Smith, Michael Colagrosso, Michael Procopio, Sandor Dornbush, Sean Whipps
  • Patent number: 11924344
    Abstract: A method for accessing customer data includes receiving an access request requesting access to customer data stored on a storage abstraction. The access request includes a justification that specifies a purpose/reason for requesting access to the customer data. The method also includes validating the justification, and after validating the justification, transmitting the justification to an external key management service associated with a customer of the customer data. The external key management service is configured to grant or deny access to the customer data based on the justification. The method also includes receiving an approved access token from the external key management service when the external key management service grants access to the customer data and accessing the customer data stored on the storage abstraction using the approved access token received from the external key management service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Valente, Nicole Jones, David Lee
  • Patent number: 11921860
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for rollback resistant security are disclosed. In one aspect, a method, during a boot process of a computing device, includes the actions of obtaining a secret key derived from device-specific information for the computing device. The method further includes verifying that a signature for a software module is valid. The method further includes obtaining information indicating a current version of the software module. The method further includes using the secret key to generate a first encryption key corresponding to the current version of the software module and a second encryption key corresponding to a prior version of the software module. The method further includes preventing future access to the secret key until the computing device is rebooted. The method further includes providing the software module access to the first encryption key and the second encryption key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Paul Dermot Crowley
  • Patent number: 11923696
    Abstract: This document describes a passive adapter for wireless charging of an electronic device and associated methods and systems. The described passive adapter includes two coils connected by a capacitor and separated by a core material that prevents mutual coupling between the coils. These two coils may have differing sizes, such that one coil can size-match to a transmitter coil of an existing wireless charger and the second coil can size-match to a smaller (or larger) receiver coil in a wireless-power receiver to charge a battery of the wireless-power receiver. In aspects, these two coils may be separated by a distance that enables the passive adapter to act as a passive repeater by bridging a space between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liang Jia, Srenik Suresh Mehta, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
  • Patent number: 11921809
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating social annotations for content that are capable of being seen by a broad audience are provided herein. A system can include a user identification component configured to identify a user that has potential for generating a valuable endorsement of a content item based at least in part on a sharing setting associated with a user. The system further includes an audience component configured to determine an audience associated with the user based at least in part on the sharing setting, a user selection component configured to select the user as a candidate user for generating the endorsement of the content item in response to a determination that a size of the audience exceeds a threshold, and a targeted content component configured to, in response to selection of the user, provide the content item to the user with a capability to endorse the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Gavin James
  • Patent number: 11922276
    Abstract: A device includes: a substrate; a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) including a superconductor trace arranged on an upper surface of the substrate and having at least one Josephson junction interrupting a path of the superconductor trace, in which the superconductor trace includes a first superconductor material that exhibits superconducting properties at or below a corresponding superconducting critical temperature; and a dielectric capping layer on an upper surface of the SQUID, in which the dielectric capping layer covers a majority of the superconductor trace of the SQUID, and the capping layer includes an opening through which a first region of the SQUID is exposed, the first region of the SQUID including a first Josephson junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Rami Barends
  • Patent number: 11921905
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing a secure collaboration between one or more PCIe accelerators and an enclave. An example system may include a PCIe accelerator apparatus. The PCIs accelerator apparatus may include the one or more PCIe accelerators and a microcontroller configured to provide a cryptographic identity to the PCIe accelerator apparatus. The PCIe accelerator apparatus may be configured to use the cryptographic identity to establish communication between the PCIe accelerator apparatus the enclave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Uday Savagaonkar, Eric Northup
  • Patent number: 11921990
    Abstract: A user interface comprising a set of comments that are aggregated from and included in a plurality of collaborative documents provided by a cloud-based content management platform are displayed. Each of the plurality of collaborative documents is a separate data file. A modification to a comment of the set of comments is received based on user input via the user interface displaying the set of comments included in the plurality of collaborative documents. Responsive to receiving the modification to the comment of the set of comments based on the user input via the user interface displaying the set of comments included in the plurality of collaborative documents, the user interface is updated to reflect the modified comment of the set of comments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Damon Seeley, Ariel Sachter-Zeltzer
  • Patent number: 11922009
    Abstract: The technology relates to allowing a user to enter text into text boxes using a stylus. For instance, first user input identifying a text box displayed on a display of the computing device may be received. Based on the received first user input, a handwriting field may be generated on the display without visual impact on the display. A second user input within the handwriting field may be received. The second user input may be converted into typed text, and the typed text may be displayed in the text box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Donny Chen Reynolds, Claire Tauziet, Ana Raquel Garcia, John Henry Charles Palmer
  • Patent number: 11921611
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes monitoring execution of program code by first and second processor components. A computing system detects that a trigger condition is satisfied by: i) identifying an operand in a portion of the program code; or ii) determining that a current time of a clock of the computing system indicates a predefined time value. The operand and the predefined time value are used to initiate trace events. When the trigger condition is satisfied the system initiates trace events that generate trace data identifying respective hardware events occurring across the computing system. The system uses the trace data to generate a correlated set of trace data. The correlated trace data indicates a time ordered sequence of the respective hardware events. The system uses the correlated set of trace data to analyze performance of the executing program code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Norrie, Naveen Kumar
  • Patent number: 11923600
    Abstract: This document describes a multi-function module for mmWave communication and user input using mechanical switches in an electronic device. The multi-function module may be located behind a non-conductive button (e.g., volume button, power button) of the electronic device. Further, the multi-function module includes an elongated antenna substrate with mechanical switches mounted thereon and distributed along a longitudinal length of the antenna substrate. At least one of the mechanical switches is implemented as a radiating element for a mmWave patch antenna. The multi-function module also includes one or more integrated circuit components mounted to the antenna substrate and configured to use the at least one mechanical switch as the radiating element for the mmWave patch antenna to provide the mmWave communication. In this way, the multi-function module enables the mechanical switches to coexist with the mmWave patch antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vijay L. Asrani, Warren Z. Jones
  • Patent number: 11922668
    Abstract: A set of user interface tools is described facilitating asynchronous adjudication of one or more regions-of-interest in a medical image by a group of two or more graders, each of which has access to the set of tools in a workstation environment. The set of tools include (1) a feature for enabling the graders to assess the medical image and manually delineate one or more specific regions-of-interest (ROI) in the medical image, (2) a feature for assessing the ROI(s) delineated by other graders, including display of the ROI delineated by other graders; (3) dialog features for explaining and discussing the assessments, including a text feature for discussing the assessments. The dialog features and the ROIs delineated by all the graders are visible to all the graders on the workstation display as they collectively adjudicate the medical image in a round-robin manner. The set of tools further include (4) a feature for manually verifying grader agreement with the other graders' assessments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Ackermann, William Chen, Thad Hughes, Teagan Daly, Scott McKinney, Rory Sayres, Quang Duong, Jacob Stimes, Eric Lindley, Cristhian Cruz, Beverly Freeman
  • Patent number: 11924168
    Abstract: A firewall intelligence system, includes a data storage storing a set of firewall rules for a network; a recommendation engine that receives, from a log service, traffic logs detailing traffic for the network and firewall logs detailing the usage of firewall rules in response to the traffic for the network, accesses, from the data storage, the set of firewall rules for the network; processes the set of firewall rules to evaluate the firewall rules against a set of quantitative evaluation rules to determine one or more firewall rule recommendations, wherein each firewall rule recommendation is a recommendation to change at least one of the firewall rules in the set of firewall rules; and a front end API that provides data describing the one or more firewall rule recommendations to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kan Cai, Vikas Aggarwal, Gargi Adhav, Rajendra Yavatkar, Ning Zhao, Vishal Gupta
  • Patent number: 11922281
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a machine learning model using teacher annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thang Minh Luong, Quoc V. Le, Kevin Stefan Clark
  • Patent number: 11922932
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses a set of speech recognition hypothesis samples, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anjuli Patricia Kannan
  • Patent number: 11923865
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at detecting and preventing light-based injection attacks. In aspects, a computing device includes executable instructions of an input manager, an audio sensor having subtracting circuitry, and a light sensor. One or more processors executing instructions of the input manager is configured to receive and analyze signals generated by the audio sensor, the light sensor, and the subtracting circuit. Upon analysis, the input manager can detect and prevent light-based injection attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Bertrand Achard
  • Patent number: 11922292
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, are described for a hardware circuit configured to implement a neural network. The circuit includes a first memory, respective first and second processor cores, and a shared memory. The first memory provides data for performing computations to generate an output for a neural network layer. Each of the first and second cores include a vector memory for storing vector values derived from the data provided by the first memory. The shared memory is disposed generally intermediate the first memory and at least one core and includes: i) a direct memory access (DMA) data path configured to route data between the shared memory and the respective vector memories of the first and second cores and ii) a load-store data path configured to route data between the shared memory and respective vector registers of the first and second cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Norrie, Andrew Everett Phelps, Norman Paul Jouppi, Matthew Leever Hedlund
  • Patent number: 11922870
    Abstract: An example method includes programming, based on image data of a frame of a plurality of frames and during a non-emission period of the frame, pixels of a plurality of pixels of a display of a computing device; causing pixels of the plurality of pixels to emit light during an emission period of the frame, wherein an amount of light emitted by the pixels during the emission period is based on the programming; and synchronizing operation of one or more sensors and operation of the plurality of pixels by at least causing the one or more sensors to emit, during a particular portion of the emission period of the frame, electromagnetic radiation through the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Yi Zhang