Google Patent Grants

Dual-output coherent optical technology

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160272
The proposed technology allows for 1+1 optical protection and may improve coherent module output optical power by 3 dB over similar transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) implementation complexity, as well as allow for integration into existing datacenter formats.

Privacy enhanced personalization on public connections

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160909
Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting a digital component for a user device based on data derived from connection parameters of the connection between the user device and an access point, without prompting the user for information. Connection parameters are extracted from access point data (e.g., geo-location parameters of the access point) that are specific to the access point and transformed into attributes of a user independently of requesting any submission of personal…

Uplink power-sharing in wireless communication devices employing multiple radio access technologies

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160881
A user equipment (UE) employing different radio access technologies (RATs) concurrently provides the UE the opportunity to connect with different RAT-based base stations and concurrently transmit data thereto. A power-sharing control mechanism provides for sharing and allocating transmit power to multiple active RATs at the UE based on a priority designation of the data type associated with transmissions scheduled for each of the multiple active RATs. The power-sharing control mechanism…

Carrier integration through user network interface proxy

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160842
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)…

Wi-Fi adaptive beacon skipping for battery-powered devices

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160827
A Wi-Fi chip is configured to operate in a power saving Wi-Fi mode in which the Wi-Fi chip repeatedly checks, at a first time interval, periodic DTIM beacons transmitted at a second time interval by a wireless access point of a Wi-Fi network, wherein the first time interval is longer than the second time interval. Upon receiving a standby message, the Wi-Fi chip, during a predefined time duration, operates in a standby mode in which the Wi-Fi chip checks at a third time interval periodic…

Leveraging cloud anchors in authentication

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160746
Systems and methods are described for authenticating devices. The systems and methods may include detecting, by a sensor on a wearable device, at least one cloud anchor that includes an identifier associated with a network and configured for a physical environment. In response to detecting that a location associated with the at least one cloud anchor is within a threshold distance of the wearable device and detecting that the wearable device has access to the at least one cloud anchor,…

Preventing data manipulation using multiple aggregation servers

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160525
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method for determining network measurements. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, by a first aggregation server and from each of multiple client devices, encrypted impression data. A second aggregation server receives, from each of at least a portion of the multiple client devices, encrypted conversion data. The first aggregation server and the second aggregation server perform a multi-party computation process to decrypt the…

Content encryption

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160507
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for securely publishing and accessing a media's premium content. Methods include a media that comprises premium content encrypted with a first cryptographic key. The media also comprises data structures that include this key and the access entitlements. These data structures are encrypted using the key for each entity that can authorize user access to the media. Methods further include…

Dynamically configurable client application activity

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160481
A method includes selecting, by one or more servers, a digital component to be presented in an application executed at a client device; obtaining, by the one or more servers, attributes of the digital component, including at least one or more of a destination network location to which the digital component redirects users in response to interaction with the digital component and a reporting network location to which the interaction with the digital component is reported; after selecting…

Retrieval of data across multiple partitions of a storage device using digital signatures

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160415
A system and method for exchanging data among partitions of a storage device is disclosed. For example, data stored in a first partition is exchanged with an application included in the first partition or with a second application included in a second partition. In one embodiment, the second application is associated with a global certificate while the first application is associated with a different platform certificate. A verification module included in the first partition receives a…

Integrating trans-inductor voltage regulator (TLVR) in vertical power delivery

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159738
The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques for the integration of TLVR technology in a vertical power VR module. A multiple-secondary TLVR topology using a controlled leakage inductance in the place of a separate compensation inductor, Lc, may be employed for the vertical power VR module. In addition, the capacitance inside the device to which the TLVR based vertical power VR module supplies power, rather than an output capacitance board, may be used in order to…

Text independent speaker recognition

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159622
Text independent speaker recognition models can be utilized by an automated assistant to verify a particular user spoke a spoken utterance and/or to identify the user who spoke a spoken utterance. Implementations can include automatically updating a speaker embedding for a particular user based on previous utterances by the particular user. Additionally or alternatively, implementations can include verifying a particular user spoke a spoken utterance using output generated by both a text…

Injecting text in self-supervised speech pre-training

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159617
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…

High resolution real-time artistic style transfer pipeline

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159366
Systems and methods are provided for receiving at least one image and a reference image, and performing a plurality of downscaling operations having separable convolutions on the received at least one image. A plurality of residual blocks may be formed, with each residual block containing two separable convolutions of the kernel and two instance normalizations. A plurality of upscaling operations may be performed on the plurality of residual blocks, and a stylized image may be displayed…

Rule violation detection

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153959
A method for detecting a traffic ramp-up rule violation includes receiving data element retrieval requests from an information retrieval system and determining a requests per second (RPS) for a key range. The method also includes determining a moving average of RPS for the key range. The method also includes determining a number of delta violations, each delta violation comprising a respective beginning instance in time when the RPS exceeded a delta RPS limit. For each delta violation,…

Multi-channel voice activity detection

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154547
A method for multi-channel voice activity detection includes receiving a sequence of input frames characterizing streaming multi-channel audio captured by an array of microphones. Each channel of the streaming multi-channel audio includes respective audio features captured by a separate dedicated microphone. The method also includes determining, using a location fingerprint model, a location fingerprint indicating a location of a source of the multi-channel audio relative to the user…

Determining multiple camera positions from multiple videos

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154280
A media items to be shared with users of a content sharing service are identified. Each of the media items corresponds to a video recording generated by a client device that depicts one or more objects corresponding to a real-world event and/or a geographic location. A location of the client device that generated the video recording corresponding to a respective media item of the media items is determined based on image features depicted in a set of frames of the video recording. A…

Systems and methods for dynamically inserting content item slots in an information resource

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154144
Systems and methods for dynamically inserting content into webpages. A computing device can receive an information resource. The computing device can receive a content item for insertion at one of the candidate content insertion locations of the information resource. The computing device can identify candidate content insertion locations for insertion of the content item based on locations of one or more elements on the information resource. The computing device can monitor for a scroll…

System and method for ad keyword scoring

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154129
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for providing network activity performance data in a content infrastructure. Instructions stored in the system or apparatus, when executed by processors, cause the processors to: identify a content item provided by a content provider device; calculate a set of keyword scores for the set of keywords, each keyword score calculated to measure a relationship between a semantic word cluster of…

Compatible neural networks

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154020
A method for training a plurality of task neural networks such that the trained task neural networks are compatible with each other is described. The method includes receiving, for each of the plurality of task neural networks, a respective training data set; forming an auxiliary loss function for the plurality of task neural networks, in which the auxiliary loss function ensures that the trained task neural networks would be compatible with each other; and training the plurality of task…