Patents by Inventor Aurélien Boffy

Aurélien Boffy 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: 12639294
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining query refinements using search data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query and a second query each comprising one or more n-grams for a user session, determining a first set of query refinements for the first query, determining a second set of query refinements from the first set of query refinements, each query refinement in the second set of query refinements including at least one n-gram that is similar to an n-gram from the first query and at least on n-gram that is similar to an n-gram from the second query, scoring each query refinement in the second set of query refinements, selecting a third query from a group consisting of the second set of query refinements and the second query, and providing the third query as input to a search operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Heiler, Behshad Behzadi, Evgeny A. Cherepanov, Nils Grimsmo, Aurélien Boffy, Alessandro Agostini, Karoly Csalogany, Fredrik Bergenlid, Marcin M. Nowak-Przygodzki
  • Publication number: 20250292772
    Abstract: Implementations relate to correcting a speech recognition hypothesis based on prior correction(s) made by a user and/or fulfillment data associated with fulfilling a request embodied in the speech recognition hypothesis. A candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be generated in response to the user providing a spoken utterance to an application, such as an automated assistant. When a confidence metric for the candidate speech recognition hypothesis does not satisfy a threshold, one or more terms of the candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be compared to correcting data. The correcting data can indicate whether the user previously corrected any term(s) present in the candidate speech recognition hypothesis and, if so, correct the term(s) accordingly. Fulfillment data generated for the candidate hypothesis and/or for the corrected hypothesis can also be processed to determine whether to utilize the candidate hypothesis or the corrected hypothesis in responding to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Inventors: Agoston Weisz, Miroslaw Michalski, Aurélien Boffy
  • Patent number: 12322388
    Abstract: Implementations relate to correcting a speech recognition hypothesis based on prior correction(s) made by a user and/or fulfillment data associated with fulfilling a request embodied in the speech recognition hypothesis. A candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be generated in response to the user providing a spoken utterance to an application, such as an automated assistant. When a confidence metric for the candidate speech recognition hypothesis does not satisfy a threshold, one or more terms of the candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be compared to correcting data. The correcting data can indicate whether the user previously corrected any term(s) present in the candidate speech recognition hypothesis and, if so, correct the term(s) accordingly. Fulfillment data generated for the candidate hypothesis and/or for the corrected hypothesis can also be processed to determine whether to utilize the candidate hypothesis or the corrected hypothesis in responding to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ágoston Weisz, Miroslaw Michalski, Aurélien Boffy
  • Patent number: 12165641
    Abstract: A method includes receiving follow-on audio data captured by an assistant-enabled device, the follow-on audio data corresponding to a follow-on query spoken by a user of the assistant-enabled device to a digital assistant subsequent to the user submitting a previous query to the digital assistant. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognizer, the follow-on audio data to generate multiple candidate hypotheses, each candidate hypothesis corresponding to a candidate transcription for the follow-on query and represented by a respective sequence of hypothesized terms. For each corresponding candidate hypothesis among the multiple candidate hypotheses, the method also includes determining a corresponding similarity metric between the previous query and the corresponding candidate hypothesis and determining a transcription of the follow-on query spoken by the user based on the similarity metrics determined for the multiple candidate hypotheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Siegler, Aurélien Boffy, Ágoston Weisz
  • Patent number: 12141132
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining query refinements using search data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query and a second query each comprising one or more n-grams for a user session, determining a first set of query refinements for the first query, determining a second set of query refinements from the first set of query refinements, each query refinement in the second set of query refinements including at least one n-gram that is similar to an n-gram from the first query and at least on n-gram that is similar to an n-gram from the second query, scoring each query refinement in the second set of query refinements, selecting a third query from a group consisting of the second set of query refinements and the second query, and providing the third query as input to a search operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Heiler, Behshad Behzadi, Evgeny A. Cherepanov, Nils Grimsmo, Aurélien Boffy, Alessandro Agostini, Karoly Csalogany, Fredrik Bergenlid, Marcin M. Nowak-Przygodzki
  • Publication number: 20240013782
    Abstract: A method includes receiving follow-on audio data captured by an assistant-enabled device, the follow-on audio data corresponding to a follow-on query spoken by a user of the assistant-enabled device to a digital assistant subsequent to the user submitting a previous query to the digital assistant. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognizer, the follow-on audio data to generate multiple candidate hypotheses, each candidate hypothesis corresponding to a candidate transcription for the follow-on query and represented by a respective sequence of hypothesized terms. For each corresponding candidate hypothesis among the multiple candidate hypotheses, the method also includes determining a corresponding similarity metric between the previous query and the corresponding candidate hypothesis and determining a transcription of the follow-on query spoken by the user based on the similarity metrics determined for the multiple candidate hypotheses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Siegler, Aurélien Boffy, Ágoston Weisz
  • Publication number: 20230402034
    Abstract: Implementations relate to correcting a speech recognition hypothesis based on prior correction(s) made by a user and/or fulfillment data associated with fulfilling a request embodied in the speech recognition hypothesis. A candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be generated in response to the user providing a spoken utterance to an application, such as an automated assistant. When a confidence metric for the candidate speech recognition hypothesis does not satisfy a threshold, one or more terms of the candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be compared to correcting data. The correcting data can indicate whether the user previously corrected any term(s) present in the candidate speech recognition hypothesis and, if so, correct the term(s) accordingly. Fulfillment data generated for the candidate hypothesis and/or for the corrected hypothesis can also be processed to determine whether to utilize the candidate hypothesis or the corrected hypothesis in responding to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Ágoston Weisz, Miroslaw Michalski, Aurélien Boffy