Patents by Inventor Sebastian Millius
Sebastian Millius 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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Patent number: 11887006Abstract: Training and/or utilizing an interaction prediction model to generate a predicted interaction value that indicates a likelihood of interaction with a corresponding application on the basis of an electronic communication. The application can be in addition to any electronic communication application that is utilized in formulating the electronic communication and/or that is utilized in rendering the electronic communication. The predicted interaction value can be generated based on processing, utilizing the interaction prediction model, of features of the electronic communication and/or of other features. The predicted interaction value can be utilized to determine whether to perform further action(s) that interact with, and/or enable efficient interaction with, the application on the basis of the electronic communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sebastian Millius, Tom Hume, Matthew Sharifi
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Publication number: 20230359818Abstract: A computing device may receive inputted text and perform, using one or more neural networks, on-device grammar checking of a sequence of words in the inputted text, including determining, using the one or more neural networks, a grammatically correct version of the sequence of words and determining that the sequence of words does not match the grammatically correct version of the sequence of words. The computing device may, in response to determining that the sequence of words does not match the grammatically correct version of the sequence of words, output, for display at a display device, at least a portion of the grammatically correct version of the sequence of words as a suggested replacement for at least a sequence of the sequence of words in the inputted text.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Sebastian Millius, Qi Wang, Yunpeng Li, Shankar Kumar, Lukas Zilka, Simon Tong, Martin Sundermeyer
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Publication number: 20230342554Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Publication number: 20230308407Abstract: This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications-especially those that enable exchange of messages between users-into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Sandro Feuz, Sebastian Millius
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Patent number: 11734515Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Patent number: 11695716Abstract: This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sandro Feuz, Sebastian Millius
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Publication number: 20220391772Abstract: Automatically generating and/or automatically transmitting a status of a user. The status is transmitted for presentation to one or more additional users via corresponding computing device(s) of the additional user(s). Some implementations are directed to determining both: a status of a user, and a predicted duration of that status; and generating a status notification that includes the status and that indicates the predicted duration. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to utilizing at least one trust criterion in determining whether to provide a status notification of a user to an additional user and/or in determining what status notification to provide to the additional user. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to training and/or use of machine learning model(s) in determining a status of a user and/or a predicted duration of that status.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Patent number: 11416764Abstract: Automatically generating and/or automatically transmitting a status of a user. The status is transmitted for presentation to one or more additional users via corresponding computing device(s) of the additional user(s). Some implementations are directed to determining both: a status of a user, and a predicted duration of that status; and generating a status notification that includes the status and that indicates the predicted duration. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to utilizing at least one trust criterion in determining whether to provide a status notification of a user to an additional user and/or in determining what status notification to provide to the additional user. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to training and/or use of machine learning model(s) in determining a status of a user and/or a predicted duration of that status.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Publication number: 20220027568Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Publication number: 20210409361Abstract: This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Sandro Feuz, Sebastian Millius
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Publication number: 20210397969Abstract: Training and/or utilizing an interaction prediction model to generate a predicted interaction value that indicates a likelihood of interaction with a corresponding application on the basis of an electronic communication. The application can be in addition to any electronic communication application that is utilized in formulating the electronic communication and/or that is utilized in rendering the electronic communication. The predicted interaction value can be generated based on processing, utilizing the interaction prediction model, of features of the electronic communication and/or of other features. The predicted interaction value can be utilized to determine whether to perform further action(s) that interact with, and/or enable efficient interaction with, the application on the basis of the electronic communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Tom Hume, Matthew Sharifi
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Patent number: 11153241Abstract: This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sandro Feuz, Sebastian Millius
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Patent number: 11138384Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Patent number: 11113604Abstract: Training and/or utilizing an interaction prediction model to generate a predicted interaction value that indicates a likelihood of interaction with a corresponding application on the basis of an electronic communication. The application can be in addition to any electronic communication application that is utilized in formulating the electronic communication and/or that is utilized in rendering the electronic communication. The predicted interaction value can be generated based on processing, utilizing the interaction prediction model, of features of the electronic communication and/or of other features. The predicted interaction value can be utilized to determine whether to perform further action(s) that interact with, and/or enable efficient interaction with, the application on the basis of the electronic communication.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sebastian Millius, Tom Hume, Matthew Sharifi
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Patent number: 10664157Abstract: A computing device is described that includes at least one processor and a memory including instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to output, for display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys, and determine, based on an indication of a selection of one or more keys from the plurality of keys, text of an electronic communication. The instructions, when executed, further cause the at least one processor to generate, based at least in part on the text, an image based search query, and output, for display, within the graphical keyboard, a graphical indication to indicate that the computing device generated the image based search query.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Nicholas Chi-Yuen Kong, Sebastian Millius, Alexa Greenberg
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Patent number: 10642830Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that leverage machine learning to implement context determination and/or text extraction in computing device applications. Particular embodiments can include and use a machine-learned text extraction model that has been trained to receive one or more messages containing text and determine one or more portions of extracted text from the one or more messages as well as a corresponding user context assigned to each of the one or more portions of extracted text. In addition, or alternatively, particular embodiments can include and use a machine-learned context determination model that has been trained to receive one or more portions of device data from one or more input sources available at the mobile computing device and determine a current user context indicative of one or more activities in which a user of the mobile computing device is currently engaged.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Publication number: 20200134022Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Sandro Feuz
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Publication number: 20190394151Abstract: This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Sandro Feuz, Sebastian Millius
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Patent number: 10439966Abstract: This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sandro Feuz, Sebastian Millius
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Publication number: 20190138904Abstract: Training and/or utilizing an interaction prediction model to generate a predicted interaction value that indicates a likelihood of interaction with a corresponding application on the basis of an electronic communication. The application can be in addition to any electronic communication application that is utilized in formulating the electronic communication and/or that is utilized in rendering the electronic communication. The predicted interaction value can be generated based on processing, utilizing the interaction prediction model, of features of the electronic communication and/or of other features. The predicted interaction value can be utilized to determine whether to perform further action(s) that interact with, and/or enable efficient interaction with, the application on the basis of the electronic communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Sebastian Millius, Tom Hume, Matthew Sharifi