Patents Assigned to GOOGLE
  • Patent number: 11895433
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises an image sensor, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions for receiving an event recording profile based on configuration data of the electronic device, the configuration data including a location type or a power type; receiving a plurality of images of a scene captured by the image sensor; detecting a trigger event based on one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; in response to detecting the trigger event, identifying an object of interest in one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; creating an event clip from the stored images that include the object of interest, wherein creating the event clip includes configuring a clip length based on the event recording profile; and providing the event clip for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: John Jordan Nold, Joe Delone Venters, Liana Kong, Scott Mullins
  • Patent number: 11893998
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to management of casting requests and user inputs at a rechargeable device, which provides access to an automated assistant and is capable of rendering data that is cast from a separate device. Casting requests can be handled by the rechargeable device despite a device SoC of the rechargeable device operating in a sleep mode. Furthermore, spoken utterances provided by a user for invoking the automated assistant can also be adaptively managed by the rechargeable device in order mitigate idle power consumption by the device SoC. Such spoken utterances can be initially processed by a digital signal processor (DSP), and, based on one or more features (e.g., voice characteristic, conformity to a particular invocation phrase, etc.) of the spoken utterance, the device SoC can be initialized for an amount of time that is selected based on the features of the spoken utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrei Pascovici, Victor Lin, Jianghai Zhu, Paul Gyugyi, Shlomi Regev
  • Patent number: 11893309
    Abstract: In response to a user interacting with a tangible peripheral assistant control device (e.g., depressing a button of the device), causing an automated assistant to perform one or more actions. The action(s) performed can be based on input previously provided by the user in configuring the peripheral assistant control device. The action(s) performed in response to interaction with the peripheral assistant control device can vary based on one or more conditions, such as which user is currently active, where the peripheral assistant control device is currently located (which can optionally be inferred based on which of multiple assistant computing devices the button is paired with), and/or the current state of one or more smart devices and/or other devices (e.g., as determined based on a device topology). A utility of the peripheral assistant control device can be automatically extended beyond what was specifically requested by a user during configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tomer Amarilio, Yuzhao Ni, Bryan Allen, Norbert Tydingco, Will Donnelly, Feng Yuan, Nathaniel Nesiba, Anurag Jain, Jacky Cheung, Ronghui Zhu, Chunya Hua, Gregory Kielian
  • Patent number: 11893003
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating waveforms for application in a quantum computing device. In one aspect, a system comprises a batch generator that receives experiment data sets defining respective experiments, each experiment data set comprising a set of waveforms defined by respective waveform data; determines unique waveforms; generates a corresponding set of respective waveform data that includes the respective waveform data for each unique waveform; generates, for each of the experiments, a waveform list that references the respective waveform data in the set of respective waveform data that corresponds to the waveforms in the set; and batch instructions that are executable by waveform generator hardware and that cause the waveform generator hardware to process each waveform list by selecting each referenced waveform data in the waveform list; and generate, in response to the selected waveform data, a waveform that is suitable for application in a quantum computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julian Shaw Kelly, Matthew Neeley
  • Patent number: 11893350
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting a continued conversation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving first audio data of a first utterance. The actions further include obtaining a first transcription of the first utterance. The actions further include receiving second audio data of a second utterance. The actions further include obtaining a second transcription of the second utterance. The actions further include determining whether the second utterance includes a query directed to a query processing system based on analysis of the second transcription and the first transcription or a response to the first query. The actions further include configuring the data routing component to provide the second transcription of the second utterance to the query processing system as a second query or bypass routing the second transcription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Nathan David Howard, Gabor Simko, Andrei Giurgiu, Behshad Behzadi, Marcin M. Nowak-Przygodzki
  • Patent number: 11893311
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by an assistant executing at one or more processors, a default group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving a particular audible command. The method includes determining, by the assistant, based on the default group of actions and a user profile associated with a particular user, a custom group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving the particular audible command from the particular user. The method also includes receiving, by the assistant, an indication of the particular audible command, and determining, by the assistant, whether the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user, executing, by the assistant, each action from the custom group of actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Michael Andrew Goodman
  • Patent number: 11892626
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an individual gaze value are disclosed herein. An exemplary method involves: (a) receiving gaze data for a first wearable computing device, wherein the gaze data is indicative of a wearer-view associated with the first wearable computing device, and wherein the first wearable computing device is associated with a first user-account; (b) analyzing the gaze data from the first wearable computing device to detect one or more occurrences of one or more advertisement spaces in the gaze data; (c) based at least in part on the one or more detected advertisement-space occurrences, determining an individual gaze value for the first user-account; and (d) sending a gaze-value indication, wherein the gaze-value indication indicates the individual gaze value for the first user-account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Eric Teller
  • Patent number: 11895807
    Abstract: A data rack system includes a data center rack frame, a shelf positioned within the data center rack frame; and a modular battery unit disposed on the shelf. The modular battery unit further includes a housing having an outer surface, a plurality of strips of phase change material (“PCM”) attached to the outer surface and spaced apart from one another; and air flow channels. The air flow channels are formed in spaces between two adjacent strips of the plurality of strips and defined by a shape and size of the spaces between the two adjacent strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Melanie Beauchemin, Christopher Malone
  • Patent number: 11893265
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reclaiming storage space in a storage environment. In one aspect, the method includes actions of aggregating data that is indicative of access to one or more data objects, determining a future storage cost associated with each of a plurality of data objects, determining an access window for each of the plurality of data objects, identifying a data object based on (i) the future storage cost that satisfies a predetermined threshold and (ii) a data object access window, providing a notification to a user device that requests feedback from a user indicating whether the data object can be deleted, and in response to receiving data that indicates that the data object can be deleted, generating an instruction to cause deletion of the data object upon the expiration of the access window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Konstantinos Nikoloudakis, Sven Koehler, Danyao Wang, Sahand Saba, Long Fei, Simon Tyler Wise, David Halladay Schneider
  • Patent number: 11895578
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for a user equipment wirelessly communicating with another user equipment using dual connectivity (DC) with a terrestrial base station and a satellite or high-altitude platform. The described methods and systems include a principal routing manager assessing that different subsets of data, to be transmitted from the user equipment to the other user equipment, can use different, respective qualities of service (QoS) offered through different wireless-communication networks associated with the terrestrial base station and the satellite or high-altitude platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer, Aamir Akram
  • Patent number: 11895474
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable storage media for activity detection of a user of a computing device, using multi-modal sensing. A device can be configured to receive sensor data corresponding to multiple modalities and process the sensor data to predict an activity performed by a user of a computing device. The device in response to the detected activity can perform a response action, such as muting or pausing audio playback from the computing device. Different modalities can be combined, such as body vibration data, air vibration data, and image data, which can be processed to distinguish user activity, e.g., speaking versus not speaking, to allow the computing device to perform the correct corresponding action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jamie Alexander Zyskowski, Karolis Misiunas, Thomas William Inskip, VI, Mohamad Hassan bin Mohamad Rom
  • Patent number: 11893384
    Abstract: Implementations are described herein for leveraging machine learning to automate source code refactoring and/or rearchitecting. In various implementations, one or more ground truth boundaries may be removed from one or more boundaried source code files to produce one or more boundary-less source code files. One or more of the boundary-less source code files may be processed using a machine learning model to predict one or more candidate boundaries for reintroduction into the one or more boundary-less source code files. The one or more ground truth boundaries may be compared with the one or more predicted candidate boundaries. The machine learning model may be trained based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bin Ni, Joshua Howland
  • Patent number: 11895073
    Abstract: A method of postponing an electronic message is performed at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The device displays a first electronic message for a user of the computing device and receives user input to postpone the first electronic message. In response to the user input, the device displays a plurality of postponement locations in a user interface window and receives user selection of a postponement location from the displayed plurality of postponement locations. The device then inhibits display of the first electronic message at the computing device. When it is subsequently determined that the computing device is at the first postponement location, the device redisplays the first electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vijay Umapathy, Ryan James Fioravanti
  • Patent number: 11895079
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to rendering, at a message application, certain messages with a particular sorting scheme (e.g., a classification-based sorting scheme) based on the certain messages having transfer times that satisfy a transfer time threshold and, optionally, based on the certain messages being unread. Other messages rendered by the message application can be rendered with an alternative sorting scheme, such as chronologically. Utilization of the particular sorting scheme for the certain messages enables a user, viewing the messages, to review (e.g., reply-to, delete, and/or view) the certain messages with reduced latency, thereby allowing the certain messages to be more quickly reviewed and actioned when received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Dongeek Shin
  • Patent number: 11894860
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for correcting a result of a quantum computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jarrod Ryan McClean, Ryan Babbush, Zhang Jiang
  • Patent number: 11893995
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collaboration between multiple voice controlled devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of identifying, by a first computing device, a second computing device that is configured to respond to a particular, predefined hotword; receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance; receiving a transcription of additional audio data outputted by the second computing device in response to the utterance; based on the transcription of the additional audio data and based on the utterance, generating a transcription that corresponds to a response to the additional audio data; and providing, for output, the transcription that corresponds to the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Pedro Gonnet Anders, Thomas Deselaers, Sandro Feuz
  • Patent number: 11893483
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate encoded representations of the network inputs, the encoder neural network comprising a sequence of one or more encoder subnetworks, each encoder subnetwork configured to receive a respective encoder subnetwork input for each of the input positions and to generate a respective subnetwork output for each of the input positions, and each encoder subnetwork comprising: an encoder self-attention sub-layer that is configured to receive the subnetwork input for each of the input positions and, for each particular input position in the input order: apply an attention mechanism over the encoder subnetwork inputs using one or more queries derived from the encoder subnetwork input at the particular input position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, Illia Polosukhin, Ashish Teku Vaswani
  • Patent number: 11893491
    Abstract: A method for determining a final architecture for a neural network to perform a particular machine learning task is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mingxing Tan, Quoc V. Le
  • Patent number: 11894940
    Abstract: Techniques for improving performance in a video conferencing system by using an automated testing system are described herein. The testing system can receive a request, from a user, for a meeting bot to participate in a video conference being hosted by a video conferencing system. The meeting bot. The system can select a first meeting bot from a plurality of meeting bots. Additionally, the system can grant access control of the first meeting bot to the user. Moreover, the system can obtain, from the first meeting bot, metrics data of the first meeting bot that is associated with performance of the video conference. Furthermore, the system can calculate a performance value based on the metrics data of the first meeting bot. Subsequently, the system can perform a task based on the performance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Karl Olof Rensfelt, Ridwaan Daniel Carregosa, Claes Erik Olof Malmnäs, Paul Hallak, Doudou Mazala Kisabaka
  • Patent number: 11893108
    Abstract: A method for accessing one or more service processes of service includes executing at least one service enclave and executing an enclave sandbox that wraps the at least one service enclave. The at least one service enclave provides an interface to the one or more service processes. The enclave sandbox is configured to establish an encrypted communication tunnel to the at least one service enclave interfacing with the one or more service processes, and communicate program calls to/from the one or more service processes as encrypted communications through the encrypted communication tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Lidzborski, Jonathon Giffin