Multi-dialect and multilingual speech recognition
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254865
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable media, for speech recognition using multi-dialect and multilingual models. In some implementations, audio data indicating audio characteristics of an utterance is received. Input features determined based on the audio data are provided to a speech recognition model that has been trained to output score indicating the likelihood of linguistic units for each of multiple different language or…
Creating a communication channel between user devices and local stores
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256288
A user-to-entity communication channel is established for providing increased information regarding entities to the general population. Ambassadors for a entity are identified and selected based on location history of devices for which location reporting is authorized. The ambassadors may provide information regarding the entity to the public through the communication channel. Communications between the users and ambassadors may be reported to the entity owner for analysis by the entity…
Scale-down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12256150
This document describes apparatuses and techniques enabling a scale down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface. This scale down preview enables users to more-easily and more-accurately capture images for a panorama.
Offloads for multicast virtual network packet processing in a network interface card
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255813
Systems and methods of offloading multicast virtual network packet processing to a network interface card are provided. In an example implementation, a network interface card can route packets in a virtual network. The network interface card can be configured to receive a data packet having a multicast header for transmission to a plurality of destination virtual machines. The network interface card can retrieve a list of next hop destinations for the data packet. The network interface…
User equipment-coordination set hybrid automatic repeat request
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255744
Techniques and apparatuses are described for user equipment-coordination set, UECS, hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, that establish a HARQ timeline that is specific to the capabilities of a respective UECS. Compared to a single user equipment, UE, the HARQ timeline for a UECS depends on a number of factors, such as the joint processing capability in the UECS, latency of communication over a local wireless network between the UEs in the UECS, or the like. Based on its capabilities,…
Qubit control electronics
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255585
A device for generating a qubit control signal includes: a first signal envelope generator circuit including a first multiple of signal sources, in which an output of each signal source of the first multiple of signal sources is combined to provide a first cumulative output; and a first mixer circuit coupled to the first signal envelope generator circuit, in which the first cumulative output is coupled to a first input of the first mixer circuit, and an output of the first mixer circuit…
Computing device having a multiple battery cell architecture including a temperature sensor and cooling element
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255292
An example outdoor mounted device includes a first battery configured to operate at a low temperature range that at least includes negative 20 Celsius; a second battery configured to operate at a high temperature range; a temperature sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: determine, based on data received from the temperature sensors, a current temperature; responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the low temperature range, cause one or more components of…
Hotword detection on multiple devices
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254884
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining a first value corresponding to a likelihood that the utterance includes a hotword. The actions further include receiving a second value corresponding to a…
Automated calling system
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254883
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an automated calling system are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance spoken by a user who is having a telephone conversation with a bot. The actions further include determining a context of the telephone conversation. The actions further include determining a user intent of a first previous portion of the telephone conversation…
One model unifying streaming and non-streaming speech recognition
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254869
A transformer-transducer model for unifying streaming and non-streaming speech recognition includes an audio encoder, a label encoder, and a joint network. The audio encoder receives a sequence of acoustic frames, and generates, at each of a plurality of time steps, a higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame. The label encoder receives a sequence of non-blank symbols output by a final softmax layer, and generates, at each of the plurality of time steps, a…
Dynamically adjusting instructions in an augmented-reality experience
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254785
Systems and methods for augmented-reality tutoring can utilize optical character recognition, natural language processing, and/or augmented-reality rendering for providing real-time notifications for completing a determined task. The systems and methods can include utilizing one or more machine-learned models trained for quantitative reasoning and can include providing a plurality of different user interface elements at different times.
Attention neural networks with linear units
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254411
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing a machine learning task on a network input to generate a network output. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an attention neural network configured to perform the machine learning task, the attention neural network including one or more attention layers, each attention layer comprising an attention sub-layer and a feed-forward sub-layer that applies an element-wise…
Resource conservation for containerized systems
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254354
A method for conserving resources in a distributed system includes receiving an event-criteria list from a resource controller. The event-criteria list includes one or more events watched by the resource controller and the resource controller controls at least one target resource and is configured to respond to events from the event-criteria list that occur. The method also includes determining whether the resource controller is idle. When the resource controller is idle, the method…
Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing dynamic auto-responses at a mediating assistant application
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254333
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for providing context specific schema files that allow an automated assistant to broker human-to-computer dialogs between a user and an application that is separate from the automated assistant. The context specific schema file can provide the automated assistant with sufficient data to be responsive to user queries without necessarily communicating with a remote device, such as a server. Multiple different context…
Crawl algorithm
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254051
A method for a crawl algorithm includes obtaining a plurality of web pages for a web crawler to crawl. The method also includes determining an available bandwidth for the web crawler. The method includes, for each respective web page of the plurality of web pages, determining a respective crawl value for the respective web page based on the available bandwidth and determining that the respective crawl value of the respective web page satisfies a threshold value. The method includes, in…
Methods and systems for providing a secure automated assistant
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254038
Implementations described herein relate to receiving user input directed to an automated assistant, processing the user input to determine whether data from a server and/or third-party application is needed to perform certain fulfillment of an assistant command included in the user input, and generating a prompt that requests a user consent to transmitting of a request to the server and/or the third-party application to obtain the data needed to perform the certain fulfillment. In…
Doorbell
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
D1067091
Building bots from raw logs and computing coverage of business logic graph
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248755
A method for dynamically generating training data for a model includes receiving a transcript corresponding to a conversation between a customer and an agent, the transcript comprising a customer input and an agent input. The method includes receiving a logic model including a plurality of responses, each response of the plurality of responses representing a potential reply to the customer input. The method further includes selecting, based on the agent input, a response from the…
Controlling agents using scene memory data
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248875
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling an agent. One of the methods includes receiving a current observation characterizing a current state of the environment as of the time step; generating an embedding of the current observation; processing scene memory data comprising embeddings of prior observations received at prior time steps using an encoder neural network, wherein the encoder neural network is configured to…
Robust model performance across disparate sub-groups within a same group
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248854
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing the difference in performance of a model across groups and sub-groups within the same group of users with similar characteristics for providing digital components. Methods can include identifying, a loss function that generates a loss representing a measure of performance the model seeks to optimize during training. The loss function is modified by adding an additional term to…
