Patents by Inventor Alexander Crettenand

Alexander Crettenand has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • OPERATING-SYSTEM-LEVEL PERMISSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-ECOSYSTEM SMART-HOME DEVICES
    Publication number: 20230119043
    Abstract: A method of sharing smart home devices between applications may include receiving a request from a first application operating on a control device to share a smart home device that registered with the first application; generating an interface on the control device that displays one or more applications with which the smart home device can be shared; receiving a selection of a second application with which to share the smart home device; and sending information to the second smart home device to register the smart home device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Crettenand, Gilles Drieu, Nathan Sandland, Kevin Po, Alexei Sakhartchouk, Julius Löwe, Anna Maria Phan, Mehdi Kash Khaleghi, Kevin Coppock
  • OPERATING-SYSTEM-LEVEL SETUP FOR MULTI-ECOSYSTEM SMART-HOME DEVICES
    Publication number: 20230119058
    Abstract: A method of performing a setup of a smart home device may include determining, by an operating system of a control device, that a smart home device is present in an enclosure; receiving, by the operating system, information from the smart home device using a multi-ecosystem protocol, wherein the information identifies a type of device for the smart home device; performing, by the operating system, setup operations for the smart home device based on the type of device; and providing, by the operating system, access to the smart home device for an application operating on the control device after the setup operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Crettenand, Gilles Drieu, Nathan Sandland, Kevin Po, Alexei Sakhartchouk, Julius Löwe, Anna Maria Phan, Mehdi Kash Khaleghi, Kevin Coppock
  • Customized interface based on vocal input
    Patent number: 10985936
    Abstract: Various arrangements for using captured voice to generate a custom interface controller are presented. A vocal recording from a user may be captured in which a spoken command and multiple smart-home devices are indicated. One or more common functions that map to the multiple smart-home devices may be determined. A custom interface controller may be generated that controls the one or more common functions of each smart-home device of the multiple smart-home devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Brown, Christopher Conover, Lishan Zhang, Alexander Crettenand, Lantian Zheng, Mafang Yao, Minoo Erfani Joorabchi, Francisco Pedro Lopes Pimenta, Rui Zhao, Yuzhao Ni
  • CUSTOMIZED INTERFACE BASED ON VOCAL INPUT
    Publication number: 20200112454
    Abstract: Various arrangements for using captured voice to generate a custom interface controller are presented. A vocal recording from a user may be captured in which a spoken command and multiple smart-home devices are indicated. One or more common functions that map to the multiple smart-home devices may be determined. A custom interface controller may be generated that controls the one or more common functions of each smart-home device of the multiple smart-home devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Brown, Christopher Conover, Lishan Zhang, Alexander Crettenand, Lantian Zheng, Mafang Yao, Minoo Erfani Joorabchi, Francisco Pedro Lopes Pimenta, Rui Zhao, Yuzhao Ni