Invention Grant
- Patent Title: State-dependent query response
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Application No.: US16810069Application Date: 2020-03-05
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Publication No.: US11216522B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: John Nicholas Jitkoff , Michael J. Lebeau , William J. Byrne , David P. Singleton
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Honigman LLP
- Agent Brett A. Krueger; Grant Griffith
- Main IPC: G06F16/248
- IPC: G06F16/248 ; G06F16/9535 ; G06F16/338 ; G06F16/638 ; G06F16/951 ; G06F3/16 ; G10L15/30 ; G10L13/00 ; G06F16/332 ; G06F40/20 ; G06F40/58 ; G06F40/186 ; H04M1/72454 ; H04R29/00 ; H04M1/60 ; G10L15/22

Abstract:
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving user input that defines a search query, and providing the search query to a server system. Information that a search engine system determined was responsive to the search query is received at a computing device. The computing device is identified as in a first state, and a first output mode for audibly outputting at least a portion of the information is selected. The first output mode is selected from a collection of the first output mode and a second output mode. The second output mode is selected in response to the computing device being in a second state and is for visually outputting at least the portion of the information and not audibly outputting the at least portion of the information. At least the portion of information is audibly output.
Information query