Patents by Inventor Scott B. Huffman
Scott B. Huffman 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: 20240055016Abstract: 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: October 27, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Patent number: 11848028Abstract: 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: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Patent number: 11657816Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for defining and monitoring an event for a physical entity and the performance of an action in response to the occurrence of the event. A method includes receiving data indicating an event for a physical entity, the event specified in part by a physical environment feature for which the occurrence of the event is to be monitored by the data processing apparatus; receiving data indicating an action associated with the event and to be taken in response to the occurrence of the event; monitoring for the occurrence of the event for the physical entity; and in response to the occurrence of the event, causing the action associated with the event to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz
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Publication number: 20220310110Abstract: 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: June 15, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Patent number: 11386915Abstract: 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: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Publication number: 20210082430Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for defining and monitoring an event for a physical entity and the performance of an action in response to the occurrence of the event. A method includes receiving data indicating an event for a physical entity, the event specified in part by a physical environment feature for which the occurrence of the event is to be monitored by the data processing apparatus; receiving data indicating an action associated with the event and to be taken in response to the occurrence of the event; monitoring for the occurrence of the event for the physical entity; and in response to the occurrence of the event, causing the action associated with the event to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz
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Publication number: 20200372927Abstract: 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: August 11, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Omer Bar-or, Scott B. Huffman, Ida Mayer, Arthur E. Blume, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Patent number: 10839799Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data identifying an application and a voice command trigger term, validating the received data, inducting the received data to generate an intent that specifies the application, the voice command trigger term, and one or more other voice command trigger terms that are determined based at least on the voice command trigger term, and storing the intent at a contextual intent database, wherein the contextual intent database comprises one or more other intents.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz
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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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Publication number: 20180374480Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data identifying an application and a voice command trigger term, validating the received data, inducting the received data to generate an intent that specifies the application, the voice command trigger term, and one or more other voice command trigger terms that are determined based at least on the voice command trigger term, and storing the intent at a contextual intent database, wherein the contextual intent database comprises one or more other intents.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz
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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: 10089982Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining that a software application installed on a user device is compatible with a new voice action, wherein the new voice action is specified by an application developer of the software application. One or more trigger terms for triggering the software application to perform the new voice action are identified. An automatic speech recognizer is biased to prefer the identified trigger terms of the new voice action over trigger terms of other voice actions. A transcription of an utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is obtained. The transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is determined to include a particular trigger term included in the identified trigger terms. Based at least on determining that the transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer includes the particular trigger term, execution of the new voice action is triggered.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Barnaby John James, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman
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Patent number: 10008203Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data identifying an application and a voice command trigger term, validating the received data, inducting the received data to generate an intent that specifies the application, the voice command trigger term, and one or more other voice command trigger terms that are determined based at least on the voice command trigger term, and storing the intent at a contextual intent database, wherein the contextual intent database comprises one or more other intents.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz
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Patent number: 9922648Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving, by a voice action system, data specifying a new voice action for an application different from the voice action system. A voice action intent for the application is generated based at least on the data, wherein the voice action intent comprises data that, when received by the application, requests that the application perform one or more operations specified for the new voice action. The voice action intent is associated with trigger terms specified for the new voice action. The voice action system is configured to receive an indication of a user utterance obtained by a device having the application installed, and determines that a transcription of the user utterance corresponds to the trigger terms associated with the voice action intent. In response to the determination, the voice action system provides the voice action intent to the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Barnaby John James, Scott B. Huffman, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Publication number: 20180053507Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining that a software application installed on a user device is compatible with a new voice action, wherein the new voice action is specified by an application developer of the software application. One or more trigger terms for triggering the software application to perform the new voice action are identified. An automatic speech recognizer is biased to prefer the identified trigger terms of the new voice action over trigger terms of other voice actions. A transcription of an utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is obtained. The transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is determined to include a particular trigger term included in the identified trigger terms. Based at least on determining that the transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer includes the particular trigger term, execution of the new voice action is triggered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Barnaby John James, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman
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Publication number: 20170256256Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving, by a voice action system, data specifying a new voice action for an application different from the voice action system. A voice action intent for the application is generated based at least on the data, wherein the voice action intent comprises data that, when received by the application, requests that the application perform one or more operations specified for the new voice action. The voice action intent is associated with trigger terms specified for the new voice action. The voice action system is configured to receive an indication of a user utterance obtained by a device having the application installed, and determines that a transcription of the user utterance corresponds to the trigger terms associated with the voice action intent. In response to the determination, the voice action system provides the voice action intent to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Barnaby John James, Scott B. Huffman, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Publication number: 20170186427Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data identifying an application and a voice command trigger term, validating the received data, inducting the received data to generate an intent that specifies the application, the voice command trigger term, and one or more other voice command trigger terms that are determined based at least on the voice command trigger term, and storing the intent at a contextual intent database, wherein the contextual intent database comprises one or more other intents.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz
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Patent number: 9691384Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining that a software application installed on a user device is compatible with a new voice action, wherein the new voice action is specified by an application developer of the software application. One or more trigger terms for triggering the software application to perform the new voice action are identified. An automatic speech recognizer is biased to prefer the identified trigger terms of the new voice action over trigger terms of other voice actions. A transcription of an utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is obtained. The transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer is determined to include a particular trigger term included in the identified trigger terms. Based at least on determining that the transcription of the utterance generated by the biased automatic speech recognizer includes the particular trigger term, execution of the new voice action is triggered.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Barnaby John James, Scott B. Huffman, Pravir Kumar Gupta
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Publication number: 20160314791Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data identifying an application and a voice command trigger term, validating the received data, inducting the received data to generate an intent that specifies the application, the voice command trigger term, and one or more other voice command trigger terms that are determined based at least on the voice command trigger term, and storing the intent at a contextual intent database, wherein the contextual intent database comprises one or more other intents.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Bo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Nitin Mangesh Shetti, Pravir Kumar Gupta, Scott B. Huffman, Javier Alejandro Rey, Jeffrey A. Boortz