Annotating screen content in a mobile environment
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147652
Systems and methods are provided for sharing a screen from a mobile device. For example, a method includes receiving, at a second mobile device, an image of a screen captured from a first mobile device and determining whether to trigger an automated action. The method may also include displaying, responsive to not triggering the automated action, annotation data generated for the image with the image on a display of the second mobile device, the annotation data including at least one…
Methods, systems, and media for object grouping and manipulation in immersive environments
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149767
Methods, systems, and media for object grouping and manipulation in immersive environments are provided. In some embodiments, a method can include: displaying a plurality of virtual objects in an immersive environment; generating a group virtual object that includes a first virtual object and a second virtual object, the group virtual object including a handle interface element for interacting with the group virtual object and a selectable indicator associated with the first virtual…
Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content items using multiple devices
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149763
Mechanisms for presenting media content items using multiple devices are provided. In some embodiments, methods for presenting media content are provided that include: detecting an offer to initiate a purchase of a content item being presented using the media device, wherein the media device has not been authenticated with a content service that provides the content item; in response to detecting the offer to initiate the purchase of the content item when the media device has not been…
Enhancing domain keys identified mail (DKIM) signatures
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149633
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…
Structured entity information page
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149599
Disclosed implementations display information about entities in a structured way. In one aspect, a server may receive a request for information associated with an entity and identify information types associated with the entity. A server may generate a response that includes a plurality of regions for the entity, the regions being structured according to the identified information types, and may populate the regions with information of the entity for the identified information types and…
Container device and delivery systems for using the same
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147929
Container devices and delivery systems for using the same are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method for delivering packages includes: receiving, at a delivery hub, a first package to be delivered to a recipient; causing the first package to be placed in a container to be delivered to the recipient; associating a first identifier of the first package and a container identifier of the container with the recipient causing the second package…
Predicting and/or applying symbolic transformation templates
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147794
Implementations are described herein for predicting symbolic transformation templates to automate source code transformations. In various implementations, pair(s) of predecessor and successor source code snippets may be processed using a symbolic transformation template prediction (STTP) model to predict a symbolic transformation template that includes a predecessor portion that matches the predecessor source code snippet(s) of the pair(s) and a successor portion that matches the…
Recommending action(s) based on entity or entity type
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147767
Implementations are described herein for recommending actions based on entity or entity type. In various implementations, a partial free-form natural language input may be received from a user at an input component of a computing device. The partial free-form natural language input may identify an entity without identifying a responsive action and may be directed by the user to an automated assistant that operates at least in part on the computing device. The partial free-form natural…
Constraints-based layout system for efficient layout and control of user interface elements
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147753
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for constraints-based layout and control of user interface (UI) elements. The system receives a first user input indicating an instruction to position a first UI element on a page of the layout application. The system receives a second user input indicating an instruction to position a second UI element on the page. The system receives a third user input indicating an instruction to create a connection from the second UI…
Analyzing graphical user interfaces to facilitate automatic interaction
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147732
Implementations are described herein for analyzing existing graphical user interfaces (“GUIs”) to facilitate automatic interaction with those GUIs, e.g., by automated assistants or via other user interfaces, with minimal effort from the hosts of those GUIs. For example, in various implementations, a user intent to interact with a particular GUI may be determined based at least in part on a free-form natural language input. Based on the user intent, a target visual cue to be located…
Cloud inference system
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147444
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…
Private information retrieval with sublinear public-key operations
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147571
A method includes initializing a client state on a client device be executing a private batched sum retrieval instruction to compute c sums O of data blocks from an untrusted storage device. Each computed sum O stored on memory hardware of the client device and including a sum of a corresponding subset S of exactly k data blocks. The method also includes a query instruction to retrieve a query block Bq stored on the untrusted storage device by iterating through each of the c sums O of…
Media content feed format for management of content in a content hosting website
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147507
A system and method for providing a content feed file for a content file to a content host. The method comprises delivering the content file and the content feed file to the content host, wherein the content feed file comprises one or more policies and the one or more policies direct the content host to manage the content file according to the one or more policies. After the content host processes the content file according to the provided policies, the content owner receives a status…
Privacy-sensitive training of user interaction prediction models
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147500
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collaboratively training an interaction prediction machine learning model using a plurality of user devices in a manner that respects user privacy. In one aspect, the machine learning model is configured to process an input comprising: (i) a search query, and (ii) a data element, to generate an output which characterizes a likelihood that a given user would interact with the data…
Operator averaging within quantum computing systems
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147492
Methods, systems and apparatus for estimating an expectation value of a quantum mechanical observable. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a first operator associated with the observable, wherein the first operator comprises a linear combination of terms. One or more constraints on expectation values of one or more of the terms in the linear combination are determined. A second operator is defined, wherein the second operator comprises a combination of the first operator and one…
System and method for representing busyness using content specific to a place
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147486
A level of busyness of a public place may be represented using content specific to the public place. Images, video, audio, or other content captured at the public place is correlated with busyness information for the public place at the time of capture. Representative content is selected and stored based on a number of factors such as to minimize resources in storing and transmitting the content. The selected representative content may be provided in response to a user request for…
Modifying query in discourse context
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147482
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modifying queries in a discourse context. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether a query received from a user device subsequent to information provided to a user device and that defines a discourse context belongs to the discourse context. If the query belongs to the discourse context, the query is modified to take into account attributes of the discourse context.
Content keyword identification
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147480
In general, in one aspect, a method includes compiling user interaction statistics for a set of content items displayed in association with a first target media document having a non-textual portion, at least some of the content items associated with one or more keywords, based on the interaction statistics, associating the first target media document with at least some of the keywords associated with the content items, and based on a common attribute of the first target media document…
Real-time micro-profile generation using a dynamic tree structure
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147471
Real-time micro-profile generating using a dynamic tree structure is provided. A system receives a first voice query. The system generates, from historical searches related to the first voice query, a first pivot point in a tree structure for the first voice query having child nodes. The system outputs an audio prompt to request selection of one of the child nodes. The system receives, responsive to the audio prompt, a voice input with a selection of a first child node. The system…
Handling contradictory queries on a shared device
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147470
A method for handling contradictory queries on a shared device includes receiving a first query issued by a first user, the first query specifying a first long-standing operation for a digital assistant to perform, and while the digital assistant is performing the first long-standing operation, receiving a second query, the second query specifying a second long-standing operation for the digital assistant to perform. The method also includes determining that the second query was issued…
