Patents by Inventor Pravir K. Gupta
Pravir K. Gupta 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: 20230205828Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 10831791Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using location aliases. In some implementations, a query is received, and a user that submitted the query is identified. It can be determined that one or more terms of the query represent an alias for a user-specific geographical location that has not been designated for the identified user. In response, a prompt can be provided to the user to specify a geographical location corresponding to the one or more query terms, data indicating a geographical location is received, and data is stored that indicates that, for the identified user, the one or more terms are an alias for the geographical location. One or more search results responsive to the query are provided, where the alias corresponds to the geographical location input in response to the prompt.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Omer Bar-or, Pravir K. Gupta, Yang Gao, Nitin Mangesh Shetti
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Patent number: 10777216Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for invoking actions at a second user device from a first user device. A method includes determining that a first user device has an associated second user device; accessing specification data that specifies a set of user device actions that the second user device is configured to perform; receiving command inputs for the first user device; for each command input, determining whether the command input resolves to one of the user device actions; for each command input not determined to resolve any of the user device actions, causing the command input to be processed at the first user device; and for each command input determined to resolve one of the user device actions causing the first user device to display in a user interface a dialog by which a user may either accept or deny invoking the user device action at the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir K. Gupta
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Publication number: 20190074027Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for invoking actions at a second user device from a first user device. A method includes determining that a first user device has an associated second user device; accessing specification data that specifies a set of user device actions that the second user device is configured to perform; receiving command inputs for the first user device; for each command input, determining whether the command input resolves to one of the user device actions; for each command input not determined to resolve any of the user device actions, causing the command input to be processed at the first user device; and for each command input determined to resolve one of the user device actions causing the first user device to display in a user interface a dialog by which a user may either accept or deny invoking the user device action at the second user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir K. Gupta
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Patent number: 10152987Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for invoking actions at a second user device from a first user device. A method includes determining that a first user device has an associated second user device; accessing specification data that specifies a set of user device actions that the second user device is configured to perform; receiving command inputs for the first user device; for each command input, determining whether the command input resolves to one of the user device actions; for each command input not determined to resolve to any of the user device actions, causing the command input to be processed at the first user device; and for each command input determined to resolve one of the user device actions causing the first user device to display in a user interface a dialog by which a user may either accept or deny invoking the user device action at the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir K. Gupta
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Patent number: 9965492Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using location aliases. In some implementations, a query is received, and a user that submitted the query is identified. It can be determined that one or more terms of the query represent an alias for a user-specific geographical location that has not been designated for the identified user. In response, a prompt can be provided to the user to specify a geographical location corresponding to the one or more query terms, data indicating a geographical location is received, and data is stored that indicates that, for the identified user, the one or more terms are an alias for the geographical location. One or more search results responsive to the query are provided, where the alias corresponds to the geographical location input in response to the prompt.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Omer Bar-or, Pravir K. Gupta, Yang Gao, Nitin Mangesh Shetti
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Patent number: 9916384Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj
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Publication number: 20180046717Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 9830390Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Publication number: 20160357868Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj
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Patent number: 9424353Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj
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Publication number: 20160179958Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 9355175Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query. A plurality of search results responsive to the query are identified. The search results are analyzed to determine that at least a first search result is associated with a first answer box topic. The search results are provided along with an answer box precursor for the first answer box topic.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Tal Cohen, Ziv Bar-Yossef, Igor Tsvetkov, Adi Mano, Oren Naim, Nitsan Oz, Nir Andelman, Pravir K. Gupta
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Patent number: 9275152Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 9251202Abstract: A system determines search hypotheses for a search query, each search hypothesis defining a search type and respectively corresponding to a resource corpus of a type that matches the search type; for each search hypothesis, generate a hypothesis search query based on the search query and the search type and submits the hypothesis search query to a search service to determine a search hypothesis score, and for each search hypothesis having a search hypothesis score meeting a search hypothesis threshold, providing search results for the search operation performed for the hypothesis search query determined for the search hypothesis; and for each search hypothesis not having a search hypothesis score meeting a search hypothesis threshold, not providing search results for the search operation performed for the hypothesis search query determined for the search hypothesis.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Percy Liang, Daniel M. Bikel, Pravir K. Gupta, Omer Bar-or
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Publication number: 20150371664Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for invoking actions at a second user device from a first user device. A method includes determining that a first user device has an associated second user device; accessing specification data that specifies a set of user device actions that the second user device is configured to perform; receiving command inputs for the first user device; for each command input, determining whether the command input resolves to one of the user device actions; for each command input not determined to resolve to any of the user device actions, causing the command input to be processed at the first user device; and for each command input determined to resolve one of the user device actions causing the first user device to display in a user interface a dialog by which a user may either accept or deny invoking the user device action at the second user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir K. Gupta
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Patent number: 9208230Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a plurality of registered publishers for enriched search results and, for each registered publisher, obtaining enrichment information from the registered publisher and associating the enrichment information with a resource provided by the publisher. A query is received. A plurality of responsive resources that are responsive to the query are identified. A first responsive resource is determined to be associated with enrichment information. An enriched search result is provided, the enriched search result identifying the first responsive resource and including the first responsive resource's associated enrichment information.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Tal Cohen, Ziv Bar-Yossef, Igor Tsvetkov, Tomer Kol, Adi Mano, Oren Naim, Nitsan Oz, Pravir K. Gupta, Kavi J. Goel
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Patent number: 9195741Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering music answer boxes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query, obtaining a plurality of search results responsive to the query, the search results being results from a search of web resources on the Internet, and determining from the plurality of search results that the query is a music query. Music data for a song responsive to the query is obtained, where the music data comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of song content of the song on the Internet. A music answer box is generated for the query, where the music answer box comprises the music data and a link to the URL of the song content, and the music answer box is provided in addition to search results.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Jun Gong, Murali Krishna Viswanathan, Daphne Dembo, Pravir K. Gupta, Tal Cohen, Lev Finkelstein, Adi Mano, Evan B. Roseman
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Publication number: 20150169750Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query. A plurality of search results responsive to the query are identified. The search results are analyzed to determine that at least a first search result is associated with a first answer box topic. The search results are provided along with an answer box precursor for the first answer box topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Tal Cohen, Ziv Bar-Yossef, Igor Tsvetkov, Adi Mano, Oren Naim, Nitsan Oz, Nir Andelman, Pravir K. Gupta
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Publication number: 20150161251Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering music answer boxes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query, obtaining a plurality of search results responsive to the query, the search results being results from a search of web resources on the Internet, and determining from the plurality of search results that the query is a music query. Music data for a song responsive to the query is obtained, where the music data comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of song content of the song on the Internet. A music answer box is generated for the query, where the music answer box comprises the music data and a link to the URL of the song content, and the music answer box is provided in addition to search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Jun Gong, Murali Krishna Viswanathan, Daphne Dembo, Pravir K. Gupta, Tal Cohen, Lev Finkelstein, Adi Mano, Evan B. Roseman