Patents Assigned to GOOGLE
  • Patent number: 11874887
    Abstract: A content management system server can obtain a protocol based data transmission via a computer network from a script that executes at the publisher device server, and can obtain search result content items from an index of electronic documents that include snippets of text extracted from the search result content items and that include hypertext links to the search result content items. The system can extract feature vectors and document identifiers of the search result content items, and can determine information retrieval scores of search result content items. Based on the network identifier, location probabilities of device locations can be ranked and compared to thresholds. The system can determine a confidence threshold representing a minimum degree of certainty of the geographical location of the devices and can select content for protocol based transmission accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Krzystof Duleba, Amin Charaniya, Vibhor Nanavati, Aileen Tang
  • Patent number: 11874891
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to associating computing devices with each other based on computer network activity for selection of content items as part of an online content item placement campaign. A first linking factor is identified based on a connection between a first device and the computer network via a first IP address during a first time period, and based on a connection between a second device and the computer network via the first IP address during the first time period. A number of devices that connect with the computer network via the first IP address is determined. A positive match probability is generated. A second and third linking factors are monitored. A negative match probability is determined based on the second and third linking factors. The first device is linked with the second device based on the positive and negative match probabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Jianjun Qiu
  • Patent number: 11876922
    Abstract: A method on a mobile device for a wireless network is described. An audio input is monitored for a trigger phrase spoken by a user of the mobile device. A command phrase spoken by the user after the trigger phrase is buffered. The command phrase corresponds to a call command and a call parameter. A set of target contacts associated with the mobile device is selected based on respective voice validation scores and respective contact confidence scores. The respective voice validation scores are based on the call parameter. The respective contact confidence scores are based on a user context associated with the user. A call to a priority contact of the set of target contacts is automatically placed if the voice validation score of the priority contact meets a validation threshold and the contact confidence score of the priority contact meets a confidence threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ondo, Michael P. Labowicz, Hideki Yoshino, Andrew K. Wells
  • Patent number: 11872699
    Abstract: Generating a robot control policy that regulates both motion control and interaction with an environment and/or includes a learned potential function and/or dissipative field. Some implementations relate to resampling temporally distributed data points to generate spatially distributed data points, and generating the control policy using the spatially distributed data points. Some implementations additionally or alternatively relate to automatically determining a potential gradient for data points, and generating the control policy using the automatically determined potential gradient. Some implementations additionally or alternatively relate to determining and assigning a prior weight to each of the data points of multiple groups, and generating the control policy using the weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh
  • Patent number: 11876760
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to identifying one or more messages sent by a user, identifying two or more contacts that are associated with one or more of the messages, determining a strength of relationship score between identified contacts, and utilizing the strength of relationship scores to provide additional information related to the contacts. A strength of relationship score between a contact and one or more other contacts may be determined based on one or more properties of one or more of the messages. In some implementations, contacts groups may be determined based on the strength of relationship scores. In some implementations, contacts groups may be utilized to disambiguate references to contacts in messages. In some implementations, contacts group may be utilized to provide suggestions to the user of additional contacts of a contacts group that includes the indicated recipient contact of a message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Tomkins, Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Shalini Agarwal, MyLinh Yang, Bo Pang, Mark Yinan Li
  • Patent number: 11875788
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to facilitating end-to-end multilingual communications with automated assistants. In various implementations, speech recognition output may be generated based on voice input in a first language. A first language intent may be identified based on the speech recognition output and fulfilled in order to generate a first natural language output candidate in the first language. At least part of the speech recognition output may be translated to a second language to generate an at least partial translation, which may then be used to identify a second language intent that is fulfilled to generate a second natural language output candidate in the second language. Scores may be determined for the first and second natural language output candidates, and based on the scores, a natural language output may be selected for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: James Kuczmarski, Vibhor Jain, Amarnag Subramanya, Nimesh Ranjan, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Vladimir Vuskovic, Luna Dai, Daisuke Ikeda, Nihal Sandeep Balani, Jinna Lei, Mengmeng Niu
  • Patent number: 11876986
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating video representations utilizing a hierarchical video encoder includes obtaining a video, wherein the video includes a plurality of frames, processing each of the plurality of frames with a machine-learned frame-level encoder model to respectively generate a plurality of frame representations for the plurality of frames, the plurality of frame representations respective to the plurality of frames determining a plurality of segment representations representative of a plurality of video segments including one or more of the plurality of frames, the plurality of segment representations based at least in part on the plurality of frame representations, processing the plurality of segment representations with a machine-learned segment-level encoder model to generate a plurality of contextualized segment representations, determining a video representation based at least in part on the plurality of contextualized segment representations, and providing the video representati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vihan Jain, Joonseok Lee, Ming Zhao, Sheide Chammas, Hexiang Hu, Bowen Zhang, Fei Sha, Tze Way Eugene Ie
  • Patent number: 11876974
    Abstract: Motion prediction using optical flow is determined to be available for a current frame in response to determining that a reference frame buffer includes, with respect to the current frame, a forward reference frame and a backward reference frame. A flag indicating whether a current block is encoded using optical flow is decoded. Responsive to determining that the flag indicates that the current block is encoded using optical flow, a motion vector is decoded for the current block; a location of an optical flow reference block is identified within an optical flow reference frame based on the motion vector; subsequent to identifying the location of the optical flow reference block, the optical flow reference block is generated using the forward reference frame and the backward reference frame without generating the optical flow reference frame; and the current block is decoded based on the optical flow reference block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yaowu Xu, Bohan Li, Jingning Han
  • Patent number: 11872476
    Abstract: A control pad assembly for an input device includes a bracket with a support having a bearing surface, a button cap configured to pivot relative to the bracket, the button cap including a peripheral lip and a pivot member configured to abut against the bearing surface of the support, and a return mechanism configured to bias the button cap towards the bracket. The return mechanism includes a hub portion positioned at least partially between the button cap and the bracket, and at least a first spring having a fixed end connected to the hub portion and a free end that is configured to deflect relative to the fixed end, the free end being coupled to a first portion of the peripheral lip of the button cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Scott K. Duncan, Livius Chebeleu, Alexander Wroblewski
  • Patent number: 11875139
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for synthesizing computer-readable code based on the receipt of input and output examples. A computing system in accordance with the disclosure can be configured to receive a given input and output, access and library of operations, and perform a search of a library of operations (e.g., transpose, slice, norm, etc.) that can be applied to the input. By applying the operations to the input and tracking the results, the computing system may identify an expression comprising one or a combination of operations that when applied to the input generates the output. In this manner, implementations of the disclosure may be used to identify one or more solutions that a user having access to the library of operations may use to generate the output from the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kensen Shi, Rishabh Singh, David J. Bieber
  • Patent number: 11875274
    Abstract: A method may include determining, by a computing device and based on at least one user coherency factor, a user coherency level. The coherency level may include a predicted ability of a user to comprehend information. The method may also include determining, by the computing device and based on the user coherency level, information having a complexity that satisfies the predicted ability of the user to comprehend information. The method may further include outputting, by the computing device, at least a portion of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Yu Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11876150
    Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of strain management layers for light emitting elements such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The present disclosure describes an LED structure formed on a substrate and having a strain management region supported on the substrate, and an active region configured to provide a light emission associated with the LED structure. The strain management region includes a first layer including a superlattice having a plurality of repeated first and second sublayers, and a second layer including a bulk layer. In an embodiment, at least one of the first and second sublayers and the bulk layer includes a composition of InxAlyGa1-x-yN. A device having multiple LED structures and a method of making the LED structure are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Miao-Chan Tsai, Benjamin Leung, Richard Peter Schneider
  • Patent number: 11874381
    Abstract: In a method for accurately estimating gait characteristics of a user, first parameters indicative of user movement, including a GNSS-derived speed and step count, are monitored. Values of the first parameters are processed to determine values of second parameters indicative of movement of the user. The processing includes using values of at least one monitored parameter to generate one or more inputs to an estimator (e.g., Kalman filter) having the second parameters as estimator states. At least two of the second parameters are collectively indicative of a mapping between step frequency and step length of the user. A graphical user interface may display values of at least one of the second parameters, and/or at least one parameter derived from one or more of the second parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Frank Van Diggelen, Ke Xiao, Gustavo Moura, Wyatt Riley
  • Patent number: 11875790
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that enable dynamically adapting an automated assistant response using a dynamic familiarity measure. Various implementations process received user input to determine at least one intent, and generate a familiarity measure by processing intent specific parameters and intent agnostic parameters using a machine learning model. An automated assistant response is then determined that is based on the intent and that is based on the familiarity measure. The assistant response is responsive to the user input, and is adapted to the familiarity measure. For example, the assistant response can be more abbreviated and/or more resource efficient as the familiarity measure becomes more indicative of familiarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tanya Kraljic, Miranda Callahan, Yi Sing Alex Loh, Darla Sharp
  • Patent number: 11874122
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for predicting a traversal time for a route. A request for navigation directions is received and a route between the origin and destination is calculated. A series of route segments to be traversed on the route are identified, as well as one or more sub-series of route segments of the series of route segments, with each sub-series having route segments to be traversed consecutively on a portion of the route. For each sub-series, a sub-series traversal time is predicted based on historical traversal time data associated with historical trips where each of the route segments of the sub-series were traversed consecutively. A total route traversal time is predicted based on the sub-series traversal time. A set of navigation directions and the predicted total route traversal time are provided for presentation on a client device for navigating from the origin to the destination via the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lange, Marc Nunkesser, Seongjae Lee, Todd Hester
  • Patent number: 11875165
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for providing context specific schema files that allow an automated assistant to broker human-to-computer dialogs between a user and an application that is separate from the automated assistant. The context specific schema file can provide the automated assistant with sufficient data to be responsive to user queries without necessarily communicating with a remote device, such as a server. Multiple different context specific schema files can be made available to the automated assistant according to a context in which a user is interacting with the automated assistant. In this way, latency otherwise exhibited by the automated assistant can be mitigated by providing the automated assistant with the information needed to respond to a user without continually retrieving the information over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Scott Davies
  • Patent number: 11874866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage use of a multiscale quantization model that is configured to provide a quantized dataset. In particular, the multiscale quantization model can receive and perform vector quantization of a first dataset. The multiscale quantization model can generate a residual dataset based at least in part on a result of the vector quantization. The multiscale quantization model can apply a rotation matrix to the residual dataset to generate a rotated residual dataset that includes a plurality of rotated residuals. The multiscale quantization model can perform reparameterization of each rotated residual in the rotated residual dataset into a direction component and a scale component. The multiscale quantization model can perform product quantization of the direction components of the plurality of rotated residuals, and perform scalar quantization of the scale components of the plurality of rotated residuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, David Simcha, Daniel Holtmann-Rice, Sanjiv Kumar, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Ruiqi Guo, Xinnan Yu
  • Patent number: D1011369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Maurio Meika Leon Guerrero, Christopher Daniel Ramirez, Wanfang Diao
  • Patent number: D1011370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Maurio Meika Leon Guerrero, Christopher Daniel Ramirez, Wanfang Diao
  • Patent number: D1011371
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Maurio Meika Leon Guerrero, Christopher Daniel Ramirez, Wanfang Diao