US 11,885,632 B2Granted

Conditional preparation for automated assistant input from a user in a vehicle

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsVikram Aggarwal, Steven B. Huang

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Abstract

Implementations set forth herein relate to pre-emptively initializing an automated assistant in a vehicle according to certain indications, in order to reduce latency while also seeking to preserve computational resources. In some implementations, data for effectuating one or more features of an automated assistant can be loaded into memory of a computing device based on vehicle interaction data. For example, the vehicle interaction data can characterize instances in which the user, from within their vehicle, invoked the automated assistant within a threshold period of time of an application completing an operation. Based on the vehicle interaction data, subsequent instances of the operation being completed while the user is in the vehicle can cause data to be loaded into memory in order to pre-emptively prepare the automated assistant to be utilized by the user.

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Dependent claims

A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:

determining, at a computing device, that an operation of an application has experienced a status change;
processing, based on the status change, interaction data that is based on whether, for each of one or more prior instances, a corresponding user interacted with an automated assistant within a threshold period of time of one or more operation status changes occurring at the application or a separate application;
determining, at the computing device, that the status change occurred while a user is in a vehicle that is driving toward a destination,
wherein the computing device or another computing device provides access to features of the automated assistant while the user is in the vehicle;
processing vehicle data in furtherance of determining whether the status change occurred within another threshold period of time of an estimated time of arrival at the destination;
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when the interaction data satisfies one or more criteria and when the status change is determined not to have occurred within the other threshold period of time of the estimated time of arrival at the destination:
causing one or more operations to be initialized via the computing device or the other computing device,
wherein the one or more operations are associated with an action that is performed via the automated assistant.

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