Patents by Inventor Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

Jakob Nicolaus 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).

  • Patent number: 10387461
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include detecting an initiation of composing an electronic message by a user, obtaining contextual information for the electronic message from a source external to a text of the electronic message, obtaining a first suggestion for the text of the electronic message based on the contextual information, detecting an operating condition indicative of a user activity during which the user is likely to experience difficulty in typing, in response to detecting the operating condition, obtaining a second suggestion for the electronic message based on the contextual information, the second suggestion being more detailed than the first suggestion, and outputting one of the first and second suggestions depending on one or more other conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10375314
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for using a display of a computing device as a light source. The computing device receives a first image that was captured by a camera of the computing device, determines a brightness of at least part of the first image, selects an intensity of a light source that is to be presented by the display of the computing device, the intensity of the light source being selected based on the determined brightness of the at least part of the image, presents the light source by the display of the computing device, the presented light source having the selected intensity, and receives a second image that is captured by the camera of the computing device while the computing device is presenting the light source on the display using the selected intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dhruv Bakshi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10367770
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, first notification data from a first application and second notification data from a second application. The method may include generating, based at least in part on comparing the first notification data to the second notification data, an affinity score that indicates whether content from the first notification data has a relationship to at least a portion of content from the second notification data. The method may include, generating a bundle notification graphical element that includes at least a portion of the content from the first notification data and a graphical indicator that indicates the content from the first and second notification data are related. The method may include outputting a set of notification graphical elements comprising the bundle notification graphical element accompanied by the graphical indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10347253
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining a likelihood that the utterance includes a hotword. The actions further include determining a loudness score for the audio data. The actions further include based on the loudness score, determining an amount of delay time. The actions further include, after the amount of delay time has elapsed, transmitting a signal that indicates that the computing device will initiate speech recognition processing on the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Alexander H. Gruenstein
  • Publication number: 20190199656
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a received message and a draft reply message to the received message, the received message including a received message component, the received message component representing one or more of a question, a request, and a subject. The method also includes parsing the received message to detect the received message component and parsing the draft reply message into one or more reply message components, identifying, using one or more machine learning models, informational components associated with the received message component and the one or more reply message components by at least applying the machine learning module to the received message component and each reply message component of the one or more reply message, and identifying, based on the one or more informational components, one or more deficient components in the subject draft reply message, and outputting, for display, information about the one or more deficient components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 10311249
    Abstract: A method includes determining, based at least in part on a type of information to be displayed at a display device associated with a computing device, a privacy level for the information to be displayed; and determining whether the privacy level satisfies a threshold privacy level. The method also includes, responsive to determining that the privacy level satisfies the threshold privacy level, determining whether an individual not associated with a currently active user account of the computing device is proximate to the display device. The method also includes determining an estimated speed of the individual not associated with the currently active user account relative to the display device. The method further includes determining, whether the estimated speed satisfies a threshold speed, and responsive to determining that the estimated speed satisfies the threshold speed, outputting the information such that at least a first portion of the information is obscured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10299089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10262659
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, determining that the audio data corresponds to a hotword, generating a hotword audio fingerprint of the audio data that is determined to correspond to the hotword, comparing the hotword audio fingerprint to one or more stored audio fingerprints of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword, detecting whether the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword based on whether the comparison indicates a similarity between the hotword audio fingerprint and one of the one or more stored audio fingerprints that satisfies a predetermined threshold, and in response to detecting that the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint, disabling access to a computing device into which the utterance was spoken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10242662
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the method includes receiving a voice input from a user device; generating a recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the recognition output; receiving a user input of one or more letters replacing the user selected one or more terms; determining suggested correction candidates based in part on the user input and the voice input; and providing one or more suggested correction candidates to the user device as suggested corrected recognition outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Evgeny A. Cherepanov, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Vikram Sridar, Ishai Rabinovitz, Omer Tabach
  • Patent number: 10229109
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Evgeny A. Cherepanov, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Petar Aleksic, Assaf Avner Hurwitz Michaely
  • Publication number: 20190012064
    Abstract: In some implementations, data indicating a touch received on a proximity-sensitive display is received while the proximity-sensitive display is presenting one or more items. In one aspect, the techniques describe may involve a process for disambiguating touch selections of hypothesized items, such as text or graphical objects that have been generated based on input data, on a proximity-sensitive display. This process may allow a user to more easily select hypothesized items that the user may wish to correct, by determining whether a touch received through the proximity-sensitive display represents a selection of each hypothesized item based at least on a level of confidence that the hypothesized item accurately represents the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Diego Melendo Casado, Glen Shires
  • Publication number: 20180375816
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, first notification data from a first application and second notification data from a second application. The method may include generating, based at least in part on comparing the first notification data to the second notification data, an affinity score that indicates whether content from the first notification data has a relationship to at least a portion of content from the second notification data. The method may include, generating a bundle notification graphical element that includes at least a portion of the content from the first notification data and a graphical indicator that indicates the content from the first and second notification data are related. The method may include outputting a set of notification graphical elements comprising the bundle notification graphical element accompanied by the graphical indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Publication number: 20180315424
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining a likelihood that the utterance includes a hotword. The actions further include determining a loudness score for the audio data. The actions further include based on the loudness score, determining an amount of delay time. The actions further include, after the amount of delay time has elapsed, transmitting a signal that indicates that the computing device will initiate speech recognition processing on the audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Alexander H. Gruenstein
  • Patent number: 10109270
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10102852
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting notifications in an enterprise system. In one aspect, a method include actions of obtaining a template that defines (i) trigger criteria for presenting a notification type and (ii) content rules for determining content to include in a notification of the notification type. Additional actions include accessing enterprise resources of an enterprise, the enterprise resources including data describing entities related to the enterprise and relationships among the entities. Further actions include, accessing user information specific to a user and determining that the trigger criteria is satisfied by the enterprise resources and the user information. Additional actions include generating a particular notification of the notification type based at least on the content rules and providing the particular notification to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Fuchun Peng, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Diego Melendo Casado, Fei Huang, Francoise Beaufays
  • Publication number: 20180285592
    Abstract: A method includes determining, based at least in part on a type of information to be displayed at a display device associated with a computing device, a privacy level for the information to be displayed; and determining whether the privacy level satisfies a threshold privacy level. The method also includes, responsive to determining that the privacy level satisfies the threshold privacy level, determining whether an individual not associated with a currently active user account of the computing device is proximate to the display device. The method also includes determining an estimated speed of the individual not associated with the currently active user account relative to the display device. The method further includes determining, whether the estimated speed satisfies a threshold speed, and responsive to determining that the estimated speed satisfies the threshold speed, outputting the information such that at least a first portion of the information is obscured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Publication number: 20180288168
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first context of a computing device including a location of the computing device at a first time. The method includes determining a similarity score indicative of a similarity between the first context and a second context of the computing device, the second context including a location of the computing device at a second time that is earlier than the first time. The method also includes determining whether the similarity score satisfies a similarity threshold. The method further includes, responsive to determining the similarity score satisfies the similarity threshold: determining one or more applications that were executing at the second time and a respective state of each of the one or more applications at the second time; executing at least one of the one or more applications; and restoring the respective state of each of the at least one of the one or more applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Publication number: 20180260395
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suggested search queries. One method includes receiving, during a search session, a request for a suggested search query; in response to receiving the request for the suggested search query, identifying an entity that is associated with an item of media content; generating a suggested search query based on the identified entity; and providing data that causes the generated suggested search query to be presented in a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Dhruv Bakshi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Publication number: 20180254045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, determining that the audio data corresponds to a hotword, generating a hotword audio fingerprint of the audio data that is determined to correspond to the hotword, comparing the hotword audio fingerprint to one or more stored audio fingerprints of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword, detecting whether the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword based on whether the comparison indicates a similarity between the hotword audio fingerprint and one of the one or more stored audio fingerprints that satisfies a predetermined threshold, and in response to detecting that the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint, disabling access to a computing device into which the utterance was spoken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10069783
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, first notification data from a first application and second notification data from a second application. The method may include generating, based at least in part on comparing the first notification data to the second notification data, an affinity score that indicates whether content from the first notification data has a relationship to at least a portion of content from the second notification data. The method may include, generating a bundle notification graphical element that includes at least a portion of the content from the first notification data and a graphical indicator that indicates the content from the first and second notification data are related. The method may include outputting a set of notification graphical elements comprising the bundle notification graphical element accompanied by the graphical indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster