Patents by Inventor April Pufahl

April Pufahl 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).

  • Patent number: 11935530
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Jared Strawderman, Harry Yu, Adriana Olmos Antillon, Jonathan Livni, Okan Kolak, James Giangola, Nitin Khandelwal, Jason Kearns, Andrew Watson, Joseph Ashear, Valerie Nygaard
  • Patent number: 11347376
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for dynamically partitioning items in a list into one or more subsets in a manner tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions, etc. A list can be partitioned into subsets in part based on a currently modality of a multimodal device, one or more list attributes indicating additional information about the list, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Chrysoberyl Francisco, Jared Strawderman, Per Anderson, Oren Blasberg, Andrew Watson, Madelaine Plauché
  • Publication number: 20220051675
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Jared Strawderman, Harry Yu, Adriana Olmos Antillon, Jonathan Livni, Okan Kolak, James Giangola, Nitin Khandelwal, Jason Kearns, Andrew Watson, Joseph Ashear, Valerie Nygaard
  • Patent number: 11164576
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Jared Strawderman, Harry Yu, Adriana Olmos Antillon, Jonathan Livni, Okan Kolak, James Giangola, Nitin Khandelwal, Jason Kearns, Andrew Watson, Joseph Ashear, Valerie Nygaard
  • Publication number: 20200110515
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for dynamically partitioning items in a list into one or more subsets in a manner tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions, etc. A list can be partitioned into subsets in part based on a currently modality of a multimodal device, one or more list attributes indicating additional information about the list, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Chrysoberyl Francisco, Jared Strawderman, Per Anderson, Oren Blasberg, Andrew Watson, Madelaine Plauché
  • Publication number: 20200075002
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using a multimodal response in the dynamic generation of client device output that is tailored to a current modality of a client device is disclosed herein. Multimodal client devices can engage in a variety of interactions across the multimodal spectrum including voice only interactions, voice forward interactions, multimodal interactions, visual forward interactions, visual only interactions etc. A multimodal response can include a core message to be rendered for all interaction types as well as one or more modality dependent components to provide a user with additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: April Pufahl, Jared Strawderman, Harry Yu, Adriana Olmos Antillon, Jonathan Livni, Okan Kolak, James Giangola, Nitin Khandelwal, Jason Kearns, Andrew Watson, Joseph Ashear, Valerie Nygaard
  • Patent number: D921659
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Reid, Jonathan Ng, Minji Hong, Ye-Jeong Kim, April Pufahl
  • Patent number: D921660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Reid, Jonathan Ng, Minji Hong, Ye-Jeong Kim, April Pufahl
  • Patent number: D921661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Reid, Jonathan Ng, Minji Hong, Ye-Jeong Kim, April Pufahl