Anonymous device authentication
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250546
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable storage devices for anonymous device authentication. A method includes: accessing, by the electronic device, data stored by the electronic device that identifies authentication keys the electronic device accepts as valid; sending, by the electronic device to a second electronic device, an authentication request that identifies a set of authentication keys including at least some of authentication keys the electronic device accepts as…
Network architecture with variable granularity optical routing
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250501
An optical transport network (OTN) node including a plurality of optical circuit switches (OCSs), each OCS being a respective degree of the OTN node, at least two of the OCSs including an input port configured to be connected to a respective optical transport fiber outside of the OTN node, at least one first output port connected to a first switching layer, and at least one second output port connected to a second switching layer. The first and second switching layers have different…
Selection and provision of digital components during display of content
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250435
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for the selection, provision and display of one or more digital components during display of content. Methods can include identifying a plurality of digital components that can be presented on the client device. A maximum number of digital components that can be presented in a slot of a content and the time duration of the slot is determined. For each digital component a score is generated…
Identifying co-located devices within a teleconferencing session
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242770
A participant computing device connected to a teleconferencing session receives mixed audio data from a teleconference computing system orchestrating the session. The mixed audio data comprises a mix of audio captured by other devices connected to the session. The mixed audio and audio captured by the other devices prior to receipt of the mixed audio data are compared to determine that the participant computing device is co-located with at least one of the other devices. Information…
Systems and methods for routing within multitask mixture-of-experts models
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242948
Systems and methods for routing in mixture-of-expert models. In some aspects of the technology, a transformer may have at least one Mixture-of-Experts (“MoE”) layer in each of its encoder and decoder, with the at least one MoE layer of the encoder having a learned gating function configured to route each token of a task to two or more selected expert feed-forward networks, and the at least one MoE layer of the decoder having a learned gating function configured to route each task to…
Magic state factory constructions for producing CCZ and T states
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242927
Methods, systems, and apparatus for producing CCZ states and T states. In one aspect, a method for transforming a CCZ state into three T states includes obtaining a first target qubit, a second target qubit and a third target qubit in a CCZ state; performing a X?1/2 gate on the third target qubit; performing an X gate on the first target qubit and the second target qubit using the third target qubit as a control; performing a Z gate on the first target qubit and the second target qubit…
Creating user interface using machine learning
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242824
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training and using machine learning models to generate graphical user interfaces from textual descriptions.
Sequence modeling using imputation
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242818
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for sequence modeling. One of the methods includes receiving an input sequence having a plurality of input positions; determining a plurality of blocks of consecutive input positions; processing the input sequence using a neural network to generate a latent alignment, comprising, at each of a plurality of input time steps: receiving a partial latent alignment from a previous input time step;…
Conversation graph navigation with language model
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242811
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a system for navigating a conversation graph using a language model trained to generate Application Programming Interface (API) calls in response to natural language input from a user computing device. A conversational agent implementing a state handler and a language model (LM) communicates with a user computing device through a user frontend. Rather than communicating directly with a user with output in natural language, the agent uses a (LM)…
Mobile-enabled voice search of media items for displaying on alternative playback devices
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242772
A method includes detecting a session between a mobile device and an alternative playback device. In response to detecting that the session has been established, the method also includes presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on a screen of a mobile device of a user including a voice search GUI element representing a voice search, receiving a user selection of the voice search GUI element, receiving an audio input of the user to request a search of one or more media items, the audio…
Wrapping sheet for packaging an electronic device
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
D1064840
System and method of indicating the distance or the surface of an image of a geographical object
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242704
A system and method is provided that displays cursors for street level images, where the cursor changes appearance based on the objects in the image, such as the geographic distance between the objects and the camera position and the surface of the objects. For example, the cursor may appear to lie flat against the objects in the image change size based on the distance between the camera and object's surface.
Haptic output for trackpad controlled using force signal and sense signal
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242669
A method includes: receiving, in an electronic device having a trackpad, a force signal that a force sensor of the trackpad generates based on a user input at the trackpad; receiving, in the electronic device, a touch signal that a touch sensor of the trackpad generates based on the user input; selecting, by the electronic device and based on at least one of the force signal or the touch signal, a first driver signal waveform from among multiple driver signal waveforms applicable to an…
Privacy-aware meeting room transcription from audio-visual stream
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242648
A method for a privacy-aware transcription includes receiving audio-visual signal including audio data and image data for a speech environment and a privacy request from a participant in the speech environment where the privacy request indicates a privacy condition of the participant. The method further includes segmenting the audio data into a plurality of segments. For each segment, the method includes determining an identity of a speaker of a corresponding segment of the audio data…
Script classification on computing platform
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242605
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system for classifying software as malicious or benign based on predicting the effect the software has on the platform before the software is actually deployed. A system as described herein can operate in close to real-time to receive, isolate, and classify software as benign or malicious. Aspects of the disclosure provide for accurate classification of malicious programs or scripts even if ostensibly the program appears benign, and vice versa,…
Identifying salient features for generative networks
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242567
Implementations identify a small set of independent, salient features from an input signal. The salient features may be used for conditioning a generative network, making the generative network robust to noise. The salient features may facilitate compression and data transmission. An example method includes receiving an input signal and extracting salient features for the input signal by providing the input signal to an encoder trained to extract salient features. The salient features…
Publisher tool for controlling sponsored content quality across mediation platforms
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242531
Systems and methods are described for providing an interface and facilitating selection of sponsored content networks that provide sponsored content items. This may include providing, by a mediation server, a user interface to a publisher server, the user interface configured to provide access to data stored on the mediation server; receiving a metric associated with a rule for filtering content items associated with the publisher; applying the metric to a content network list associated…
Actionable suggestions for media content
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242528
Implementations relate to processing media content, and/or associated metadata, to classify the media content into a first category, of a plurality of predefined categories. Versions of those implementations further relate to extracting target content from the media content; generating, based on the extracted target content, an action that corresponds to an application; and generating, based on the generated action, a selectable suggestion including a textual portion that describes the…
Deep reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12240113
Implementations utilize deep reinforcement learning to train a policy neural network that parameterizes a policy for determining a robotic action based on a current state. Some of those implementations collect experience data from multiple robots that operate simultaneously. Each robot generates instances of experience data during iterative performance of episodes that are each explorations of performing a task, and that are each guided based on the policy network and the current policy…
Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
D1065248
