Patents by Inventor Othar Hansson
Othar Hansson 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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Publication number: 20240346055Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
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Patent number: 11942095Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance of a voice command captured by a user device. The user device has a plurality of different users. The method includes determining a particular user among the plurality of different users of the user device as a speaker of the utterance based on a comparison between the audio data and corresponding speaker verification data stored on memory hardware for each user of the plurality of different users of the user device. The method further includes, based on determining the particular user among the plurality of different users of the user device as the speaker of the utterance, providing, for output from the user device, a message comprising a speaker identifier associated with the particular user.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Publication number: 20230394072Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
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Patent number: 11836167Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
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Publication number: 20230267935Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 11676608Abstract: A method includes generating an audio signal encoding an utterance captured by a microphone of a user device and transmitting the audio signal encoding the utterance to a server. The server is configured to determine a speaker of the utterance from one of a plurality of different users of the user device based on a comparison between the audio signal encoding the utterance and corresponding speaker verification data, and process the audio signal encoding the utterance using a speech recognition module to identify a particular action. The method also includes executing the particular action identified by the server to cause a particular application to launch on the user device based on user permissions associated with the speaker determined by the server to access the particular data.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 11620318Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary
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Publication number: 20220319522Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Publication number: 20220083575Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
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Patent number: 11188578Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
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Patent number: 10986498Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Publication number: 20200013412Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 10460735Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 10402432Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
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Patent number: 10331770Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents is presented. A document hosted on a website of a domain is accessed, where the document includes an authorship identifier asserting authorship of the document by an entity. Authorship of the document by the entity is conditionally confirmed when a profile for the entity is associated with the authorship identifier and when the profile for the entity indicates that the entity has confirmed that the authorship identifier is included in documents authored by the entity that are hosted on the first website of the first domain. Responsive to confirming authorship of the document by the entity, application of a confirmed authorship process to the document is permitted. Responsive to failing to confirm authorship of the document by the entity, application of the confirmed authorship process to the document is barred.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Othar Hansson, Sagar Kamdar, Michael Cassidy
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Patent number: 10282089Abstract: In one example, a method includes outputting, by a computing device (102) and for display at a display device (104) operatively coupled to the computing device, a graphical keyboard (124) comprising a plurality of keys, and receiving, by the computing device, an indication of a gesture detected at a presence-sensitive input device operatively coupled to the computing device. In this example, the method also includes detecting, by one or more sensors (154) of the computing device, data indicative of one or more user states determined to affect gesture accuracy; selecting, by the computing device and based at least in part on the indication of the gesture and the data, a particular candidate string; and outputting, by the computing device and for display at the display device, the particular candidate string.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 10270862Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for invoking a non-search action based on a search query. A server system receives a search query from a remote computing device. The server system determines whether the search query includes reserved text that indicates an intent by a user that provided the search query to the remote computing device to perform a non-search messaging action instead of or in addition to obtaining search results. The server system provides to the computing device, in response to determining that the search query includes the reserved text, code for causing the remote computing device to display a draft communication that includes at least the search query without the reserved text, and for allowing the user to edit the draft communication before transmitting the draft communication for receipt by recipient users.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Tak Keung Cheng, Robert Stacey, Othar Hansson, Brett R. Lider, Tomer Kol, Iftach Hyams
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Publication number: 20190074017Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 10147429Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
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Publication number: 20180203863Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Othar Hansson, David Black, Jon M. Wiley, Manas Tungare, Ziga Mahkovec, Benjamin J. McMahan, Benedict A. Gomes, Jonathan J. Effrat, Johanna R. Wright, Marcin K. Wichary