Patents by Inventor Robert Bowering

Robert Bowering 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: 20260187111
    Abstract: A question is posed by a user of a user device as part of an online chat session with an online system. An intake artificial intelligence (AI) agent interacts with the user via the online chat session in one or more rounds of messaging to gather information that may be used by a human agent to respond to the question. At some point, the online system may identify in an output of the intake AI agent an indication that there is sufficient context regarding the question to transfer the question to the human agent. The online system provides session information (e.g., the question and gathered context) to a user device associated with the human agent. The human agent may use the session information to develop a response to the question that may be provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Inventors: Benjamin Bernard, Spencer Lee Cohen, Kevin Lei, Helena Ursic Vrabec, Taylor Hohenberger, Robert Bowering, Junghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 12014099
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the transfer of the execution of content, or the casting of content, from a first computing device to a second computing device. The casting may be performed in response to a detected lift event of the second computing device including the detection of movement of the second computing device from a stored state toward a position within a field of view of a user, and an identification event of the second computing device. including the detection or identification of the second computing device within a field of view of an image sensor of the first computing device, corresponding to a field of view of the user. Detection of both the lift event and the identification event may provide a relatively high level of assurance of user intent to cast the content from the first computing device to the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Achin Kulshrestha, Robert Bowering, Maxwell Spear, Xavier Benavides Palos, Aveek Purohit
  • Publication number: 20230305788
    Abstract: A system and method provides for the transfer of the execution of content, or the casting of content, from a first computing device to a second computing device. The casting may be performed in response to a detected lift event of the second computing device including the detection of movement of the second computing device from a stored state toward a position within a field of view of a user, and an identification event of the second computing device, including the detection or identification of the second computing device within a field of view of an image sensor of the first computing device, corresponding to a field of view of the user. Detection of both the lift event and the identification event may provide a relatively high level of assurance of user intent to cast the content from the first computing device to the second computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Achin Kulshrestha, Robert Bowering, Maxwell Spear, Xavier Benavides Palos, Aveek Purohit