Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Dean

Thomas L. Dean 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).

  • Patent number: 11900938
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Publication number: 20220351731
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 11423902
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Publication number: 20200357403
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 10726840
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Publication number: 20190251968
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 10373123
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining other users that will attend an event with a user. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent for a device, input from a user identifying an event, determining constraints for other users that will be invited to attend the event, determining one or more other users who meet the constraints, identifying, for each of the other users, other computer-implemented agents, each of the other agents for respective other devices, sending, to each of the other agents, a request to determine whether the respective other user of the other agent is interested in attending the event, receiving, from a first subset of the other agents, a response that indicates that the respective other user is interested in attending the event, and facilitating communication between the user and the respective other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Gabriel Schine, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe
  • Patent number: 10325595
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Publication number: 20190066060
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining other users that will attend an event with a user. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent for a device, input from a user identifying an event, determining constraints for other users that will be invited to attend the event, determining one or more other users who meet the constraints, identifying, for each of the other users, other computer-implemented agents, each of the other agents for respective other devices, sending, to each of the other agents, a request to determine whether the respective other user of the other agent is interested in attending the event, receiving, from a first subset of the other agents, a response that indicates that the respective other user is interested in attending the event, and facilitating communication between the user and the respective other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Gabriel Schine, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe
  • Patent number: 10140595
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining other users that will attend an event with a user. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent for a device, input from a user identifying an event, determining constraints for other users that will be invited to attend the event, determining one or more other users who meet the constraints, identifying, for each of the other users, other computer-implemented agents, each of the other agents for respective other devices, sending, to each of the other agents, a request to determine whether the respective other user of the other agent is interested in attending the event, receiving, from a first subset of the other agents, a response that indicates that the respective other user is interested in attending the event, and facilitating communication between the user and the respective other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Gabriel Schine, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe
  • Patent number: 10083169
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing word sequences using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving a first sequence of words arranged according to a first order; and for each word in the first sequence, beginning with a first word in the first order: determining a topic vector that is associated with the word; generating a combined input from the word and the topic vector, and processing the combined input through one or more sequence modeling layers to generate a sequence modeling output for the word; and processing one or more of the sequence modeling outputs through an output layer to generate a neural network output for the first sequence of words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shalini Ghosh, Oriol Vinyals, Brian Patrick Strope, Howard Scott Roy, Thomas L. Dean, Larry Paul Heck
  • Publication number: 20180253321
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining user frustration and assisting the user in response. One of the methods includes receiving data from one or more sensors of a mobile device, determining, from the received data, that a user of the mobile device is having difficulty causing the mobile device to perform an action, determining the action the user is trying to cause the mobile device to perform using a state of the mobile device, and generating assistance data to cause the mobile device to perform the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine, Qiangfeng Peter Lau
  • Publication number: 20180253699
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining other users that will attend an event with a user. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent for a device, input from a user identifying an event, determining constraints for other users that will be invited to attend the event, determining one or more other users who meet the constraints, identifying, for each of the other users, other computer-implemented agents, each of the other agents for respective other devices, sending, to each of the other agents, a request to determine whether the respective other user of the other agent is interested in attending the event, receiving, from a first subset of the other agents, a response that indicates that the respective other user is interested in attending the event, and facilitating communication between the user and the respective other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Gabriel Schine, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe
  • Publication number: 20180247649
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 9997158
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 9965748
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining other users that will attend an event with a user. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent for a device, input from a user identifying an event, determining constraints for other users that will be invited to attend the event, determining one or more other users who meet the constraints, identifying, for each of the other users, other computer-implemented agents, each of the other agents for respective other devices, sending, to each of the other agents, a request to determine whether the respective other user of the other agent is interested in attending the event, receiving, from a first subset of the other agents, a response that indicates that the respective other user is interested in attending the event, and facilitating communication between the user and the respective other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Gabriel Schine, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe
  • Publication number: 20170193997
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 9640180
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 9601115
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Publication number: 20160351193
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine