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).

  • Publication number: 20240346055
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
  • Patent number: 11942095
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Publication number: 20230394072
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11836167
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
  • Publication number: 20230267935
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 11676608
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 11620318
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20220319522
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Publication number: 20220083575
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
  • Patent number: 11188578
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
  • Patent number: 10986498
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Publication number: 20200013412
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 10460735
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 10402432
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ulas Kirazci, Othar Hansson, Anton Hansson
  • Patent number: 10331770
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Othar Hansson, Sagar Kamdar, Michael Cassidy
  • Patent number: 10282089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jakob Foerster, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 10270862
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tak Keung Cheng, Robert Stacey, Othar Hansson, Brett R. Lider, Tomer Kol, Iftach Hyams
  • Publication number: 20190074017
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Patent number: 10147429
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Othar Hansson
  • Publication number: 20180203863
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: 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