Patents by Inventor Jakob Foerster
Jakob Foerster 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).
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Patent number: 11902629Abstract: The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames, and wherein the higher the percentage the lower the user engagement score. The system further includes an identification component that identifies a subset of the frames associated with relatively lower user engagement scores in comparison to other frames of the video and an overlay component that configures an overlay for displaying over the video near at least one of the frames included in the subset.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Dhruv Bakshi
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Publication number: 20230043219Abstract: The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames, and wherein the higher the percentage the lower the user engagement score. The system further includes an identification component that identifies a subset of the frames associated with relatively lower user engagement scores in comparison to other frames of the video and an overlay component that configures an overlay for displaying over the video near at least one of the frames included in the subset.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Jakob Foerster, Dhruv Bakshi
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Patent number: 11539992Abstract: Implementations disclose methods and systems for providing a media item at an adjusted playback. A method includes receiving, from a first user device, a playback request from a first user for a first media item including one or more portions of media content; determining an adjusted playback for at least one portion of the first media item that is different than a default playback for the at least one portion of the first media item. The determining is based on previous playback behavior of one or more users in relation to one or more media items that each included one or more portions of media content corresponding to the one or more portions media content of the first media item; and causing the at least one portion of the first media item to be rendered on the first user device at the adjusted playback.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Matthew Sharifi
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Patent number: 11483625Abstract: The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames, and wherein the higher the percentage the lower the user engagement score. The system further includes an identification component that identifies a subset of the frames associated with relatively lower user engagement scores in comparison to other frames of the video and an overlay component that configures an overlay for displaying over the video near at least one of the frames included in the subset.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Dhruv Bakshi
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Patent number: 11415427Abstract: Systems and methods for generating return journey notifications include obtaining a request for navigational directions to a target destination. An outbound journey route from an initial location to the target destination can be determined, wherein the outbound journey route includes an estimated outbound journey time. A return journey route from the target destination to a return destination can be determined, wherein the return journey route includes an estimated return journey time. The outbound journey route and/or return journey route can be determined at least in part from one or more of current traffic conditions or historical traffic conditions. One or more notifications regarding the return journey route can be generated when comparing the estimated outbound journey time to the estimated return journey time results in a determination that one or more predetermined criteria are met.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Patent number: 11412065Abstract: A first user device executing a messaging application receives a first message from a second user device. The first user device that is associated with a user determines whether the first message includes a first reference to a first media item. Responsive to determining that the first message includes the first reference to the first media item, media playlist information identifying the first media item is generated. The media playlist information identifying the first media item is sent to a content sharing platform. The first media item is to be added to a media playlist maintained by the content sharing platform.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Matthew Sharifi
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Publication number: 20220210625Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include detecting, by a first computing device, a set of user communications at least one of transmitted to and received by from a second computing device via a first communication mode, identifying a second communication mode that is available for communication between the first and second computing devices, and obtaining an appropriateness score for the first and second communication modes based on a contextual feature of the set of user communications, wherein the contextual feature relates an appropriateness of a particular communication mode for the set of user communications, and wherein each appropriateness score is indicative of a level of the appropriateness of a particular communication mode for the set of user communications. The technique can also include selectively outputting a suggestion to switch from the first communication mode to the second communication mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Patent number: 11288107Abstract: Methods and systems may help to provide filtered notification content that provides useful information to the intended recipient, but does not provide the same information to an unauthorized viewer. To do so, when an application event occurs, filtered notification content may be generated. The filtered notification content may combine a non-obfuscated portion of the event content and an obfuscated portion of the event content, such that when viewed by an intended recipient, the filtered notification content provides implicit information that the device expects the particular user to understand based on the user's own experience and/or other factors.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Publication number: 20210211775Abstract: The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames, and wherein the higher the percentage the lower the user engagement score. The system further includes an identification component that identifies a subset of the frames associated with relatively lower user engagement scores in comparison to other frames of the video and an overlay component that configures an overlay for displaying over the video near at least one of the frames included in the subset.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Jakob Foerster, Dhruv Bakshi
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Patent number: 10958981Abstract: The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames, and wherein the higher the percentage the lower the user engagement score. The system further includes an identification component that identifies a subset of the frames associated with relatively lower user engagement scores in comparison to other frames of the video and an overlay component that configures an overlay for displaying over the video near at least one of the frames included in the subset.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Dhruv Bakshi
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Publication number: 20200371850Abstract: Methods and systems may help to provide filtered notification content that provides useful information to the intended recipient, but does not provide the same information to an unauthorized viewer. To do so, when an application event occurs, filtered notification content may be generated. The filtered notification content may combine a non-obfuscated portion of the event content and an obfuscated portion of the event content, such that when viewed by an intended recipient, the filtered notification content provides implicit information that the device expects the particular user to understand based on the user's own experience and/or other factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Patent number: 10776187Abstract: Methods and systems may help to provide filtered notification content that provides useful information to the intended recipient, but does not provide the same information to an unauthorized viewer. To do so, when an application event occurs, filtered notification content may be generated. The filtered notification content may combine a non-obfuscated portion of the event content and an obfuscated portion of the event content, such that when viewed by an intended recipient, the filtered notification content provides implicit information that the device expects the particular user to understand based on the user's own experience and/or other factors.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Publication number: 20200263315Abstract: Systems and methods for generating return journey notifications include obtaining a request for navigational directions to a target destination. An outbound journey route from an initial location to the target destination can be determined, wherein the outbound journey route includes an estimated outbound journey time. A return journey route from the target destination to a return destination can be determined, wherein the return journey route includes an estimated return journey time. The outbound journey route and/or return journey route can be determined at least in part from one or more of current traffic conditions or historical traffic conditions. One or more notifications regarding the return journey route can be generated when comparing the estimated outbound journey time to the estimated return journey time results in a determination that one or more predetermined criteria are met.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Patent number: 10663313Abstract: Systems and methods for generating return journey notifications include obtaining a request for navigational directions to a target destination. An outbound journey route from an initial location to the target destination can be determined, wherein the outbound journey route includes an estimated outbound journey time. A return journey route from the target destination to a return destination can be determined, wherein the return journey route includes an estimated return journey time. The outbound journey route and/or return journey route can be determined at least in part from one or more of current traffic conditions or historical traffic conditions. One or more notifications regarding the return journey route can be generated when comparing the estimated outbound journey time to the estimated return journey time results in a determination that one or more predetermined criteria are met.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Patent number: 10620801Abstract: Systems, methods, and interfaces for generating information cards for a video and rendering the information cards during playback of the video are provided. In an embodiment, a client device can an interface component configured to generate a graphical user interface comprising media player configured to play a video streamed to the device from a streaming media provider. The interface further comprises an information icon positioned within the media player and overlaying the video during playing of the video, the information icon indicating association of one or more information cards comprising additional information associated with the video, wherein, the interface component is configured to generate the one or more information cards and include the one or more information cards in the graphical user interface in response to user input indicating selection of the information icon. A presentation component further displays the graphical user interface via a display of the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Avi Fein, Vipul Vinod Thakur, Molly Castle Nix, Dhruv Bakshi, Edward Cunningham, Shmuel Salem, Jakob Foerster, Anthony William Ruscoe, Jacob Paul Richard Robinson, Werner Beroux
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Patent number: 10579730Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the methods includes receiving a first voice input from a user device; generating a first recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the first recognition output; receiving a second voice input spelling a correction of the user selection; determining a corrected recognition output for the selected portion; and providing a second recognition output that merges the first recognition output and the corrected recognition output.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Evgeny A. Cherepanov, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Jakob Foerster, Petar Aleksic, Assaf Hurwitz Michaely
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Patent number: 10453441Abstract: In some implementations, a language proficiency of a user of a client device is determined by one or more computers. The one or more computers then determines a text segment for output by a text-to-speech module based on the determined language proficiency of the user. After determining the text segment for output, the one or more computers generates audio data including a synthesized utterance of the text segment. The audio data including the synthesized utterance of the text segment is then provided to the client device for output.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster
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Publication number: 20190297167Abstract: A first user device executing a messaging application receives a first message from a second user device. The first user device that is associated with a user determines whether the first message includes a first reference to a first media item. Responsive to determining that the first message includes the first reference to the first media item, media playlist information identifying the first media item is generated. The media playlist information identifying the first media item is sent to a content sharing platform. The first media item is to be added to a media playlist maintained by the content sharing platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Jakob Foerster, Matthew Sharifi
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Publication number: 20190268632Abstract: Implementations disclose methods and systems for providing a media item at an adjusted playback. A method includes receiving, from a first user device, a playback request from a first user for a first media item including one or more portions of media content; determining an adjusted playback for at least one portion of the first media item that is different than a default playback for the at least one portion of the first media item. The determining is based on previous playback behavior of one or more users in relation to one or more media items that each included one or more portions of media content corresponding to the one or more portions media content of the first media item; and causing the at least one portion of the first media item to be rendered on the first user device at the adjusted playback.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Jakob Foerster, Matthew Sharifi
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Publication number: 20190266033Abstract: Methods and systems may help to provide filtered notification content that provides useful information to the intended recipient, but does not provide the same information to an unauthorized viewer. To do so, when an application event occurs, filtered notification content may be generated. The filtered notification content may combine a non-obfuscated portion of the event content and an obfuscated portion of the event content, such that when viewed by an intended recipient, the filtered notification content provides implicit information that the device expects the particular user to understand based on the user's own experience and/or other factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster