Google Patent Applications

Integrated Vapor Chamber for Electronic Devices

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250081397
This document describes a vapor chamber within an electronic device. In aspects, an electronic device includes a middle frame that provides mechanical support for the electronic device, a middle plate affixed to the middle frame to define an inner layer of a chassis, and a vapor chamber disposed inside the middle plate. The vapor chamber includes a first region proximate to a heat source and a second region opposite the first region. A coolant is evaporated in a first mode at the first…

Adapter Finetuning with Teacher Pseudo-Labeling for Tail Languages in Streaming Multilingual ASR

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078830
A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing a spoken utterance in a particular native language. The method also includes generating a first higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame in the sequence of acoustic frames by a causal encoder that includes an initial stack of multi-head attention layers. The method also includes generating a second higher order feature representation for a corresponding first higher order feature…

QUANTIZATION AND SPARSITY AWARE FINE-TUNING FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH UNIVERSAL SPEECH MODELS

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078815
A method includes obtaining a plurality of training samples that each include a respective speech utterance and a respective textual utterance representing a transcription of the respective speech utterance. The method also includes fine-tuning, using quantization and sparsity aware training with native integer operations, a pre-trained automatic speech recognition (ASR) model on the plurality of training samples. Here, the pre-trained ASR model includes a plurality of weights and the…

Zero-Shot Task Expansion of ASR Models Using Task Vectors

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078813
A method includes training, using an un-supervised learning technique, an auxiliary ASR model based on a first set of un-transcribed source task speech utterances to determine a first task vector, training, using the un-supervised learning technique, the auxiliary ASR model based on a second set of un-transcribed speech utterances to determine a second task vector, and training, using the un-supervised learning technique, the auxiliary ASR model based on un-transcribed target task speech…

Injecting Text in Self-Supervised Speech Pre-training

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078807
A method includes receiving training data that includes unspoken text utterances and un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances. Each unspoken text utterance is not paired with any corresponding spoken utterance of non-synthetic speech. Each un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterance is not paired with a corresponding transcription. The method also includes generating a corresponding synthetic speech representation for each unspoken textual utterance of the received training data…

STATE-DEPENDENT QUERY RESPONSE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077597
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving user input that defines a search query, and providing the search query to a server system. Information that a search engine system determined was responsive to the search query is received at a computing device. The computing device is identified as in a first state, and a first output mode for audibly outputting at least a portion of the information is…

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF NO-CODE EMBEDDED DATA-DRIVEN APPLICATION VIEWS

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250068396
A method includes receiving, from a user, an embedded application view request requesting embedding of an application view within a host container. The application view is derived from a no-code application, and the no-code application is generated using a no-code application development environment. The embedded application view request includes a uniform resource locator (URL) referencing the no-code application and a data record of a dataset associated with the no-code application.…

Carrier Integration Through User Network Interface Proxy

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071713
A method for carrier network integration through a user proxy interface includes receiving a request from a mobile device associated with a subscriber of a carrier provider to establish voice services with the carrier provider for a companion device linked to the mobile device. The request includes a subscriber identifier of the mobile device. The method also includes authenticating the companion device based on the subscriber identifier, obtaining session initiation protocol (SIP)…

SELF-ADJUSTING ASSISTANT LLMS ENABLING ROBUST INTERACTION WITH BUSINESS LLMS

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250069617
A method includes receiving a natural language query specifying an action for an assistant interface to perform and selecting one or more business large language models (LLMs) for the assistant interface to interact with to fulfill performance of the action. For each business LLM, method also includes accessing an adapter module to structure the natural language query into a respective prompt specifically formulated for the corresponding business LLM, issuing, for input to the…

Augmenting Retrieval Systems With User-Provided Phonetic Signals

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250069593
A method includes obtaining, from a user device associated with a user, an audio signature, the audio signature extracted from audio data corresponding to a query spoken by the user. The method also includes processing, using a neural network, the audio signature to identify document tokens that match the audio signature within a shared embedding space, the neural network trained to jointly embed audio signatures and document tokens in the shared embedding space. The method also includes…

Conversational User Interfaces With Multimodal Inputs and Mind Map Like Interactions

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250068258
A method executed on data processing hardware and including displaying, on a display in communication with the data processing hardware, a user interface for a chat session between a user and a chatbot, the user interface including a plurality of entries input by the user and a plurality of corresponding responses from the chatbot. The method also includes receiving, in the user interface, a user input indication indicating selection of a particular entry of the plurality of entries, the…

Enhancing Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250062914
A method for securing messages includes obtaining, at a message server, a message for a user of a message service hosted by the message server. The message includes a header and the header includes a digital signature signed by an author of the message and a list of one or more recipients of the message. The method includes determining whether the digital signature by the author is valid and determining, using the list of one or more recipients, whether the user is a declared recipient…

Adaptive Phase-Changing Device Power-Saving Operations

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250062808
Techniques and apparatuses are described for adaptive phase-changing device power-saving operations. In aspects, a base station determines to transition an adaptive phase-changing device (APD) into an enabled APD-PS mode and determines an APD-PS configuration for the APD that specifies a framework for operating in the enabled APD-PS mode. The base station then directs the APD to operate in the enabled APD-PS mode by communicating the APD-PS configuration to the APD and transmits or…

LANGUAGE-MODEL SUPPORTED SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250061917
The technology relates to enhancing speech emotion recognition models with methods that enable the use of unlabeled data by inferring weak emotion labels. This is done by pre-trained large language models through weakly-supervised learning. For inferring weak labels constrained to a taxonomy, a textual entailment approach selects an emotion label with the highest entailment score for a speech transcript extracted via automatic speech recognition. The system may employ a method that…

Generation of Interactive Audio Tracks From Visual Content

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250061892
Generating audio tracks is provided. The system selects a digital component object having a visual output format. The system determines to convert the digital component object into an audio output format. The system generates text for the digital component object. The system selects, based on context of the digital component object, a digital voice to render the text. The system constructs a baseline audio track of the digital component object with the text rendered by the digital voice.…

Lattice Speech Corrections

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250061889
A method includes receiving audio data corresponding to a query spoken and processing the audio data to generate multiple candidate hypotheses each represented by a respective sequence of hypothesized terms. For each candidate hypothesis, the method includes determining whether the sequence of hypothesized terms includes a source phrase from a list of phrase correction pairs. Each phrase correction pair includes a corresponding source phrase that was misrecognized and a corresponding…

CLOUD INFERENCE SYSTEM

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250061123
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing and accessing data in a cloud system. One of the methods includes receiving an identification of log data that records occurrences of events; receiving a specification of a plurality of different event types to be indexed; indexing the log data according to the specification and group identifiers; receiving a query specifying a reference parameter and requesting one or more…

IDENTIFY MALICIOUS SOFTWARE

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250053654
A method for identifying malicious software includes receiving and executing a software application, identifying a plurality of uniform resource identifiers the software application interacts with during execution of the software application, and generating a vector representation for the software application using a feed-forward neural network configured to receive the plurality of uniform resource identifiers as feature inputs. The method also includes determining similarity scores for…

Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Transmissions Using Adaptive Phase-Changing Devices

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250055507
Techniques and apparatuses are described for multiple-input multiple-output transmissions using adaptive phase-changing devices. In aspects, a base station selects one or more adaptive phase-changing devices, APDs, to use in at least one communication path for multiple-input, multiple-output, MIMO, transmissions. The base station can perform a channel characterization process for the at least one communication path using the at least one APD and at least one UE. Based on results of the…

System And Method For Automatically Optimizing Customer Communication

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250054022
The present disclosure provides a closed loop, self-learning system that automatically optimizes what experiences should be presented to each customer. Instead of relying on rules and external targeting, it observes customer reactions to continuously improve performance and adapt to environment changes.