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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Gray Ice Higdon (Google Llc)

81 pending office actions • 2 clients

Portfolio Summary

81
Total Pending OAs
21
Final Rejections
60
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Google LLC 72
Google LLC 9

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18911086 Untitled Google LLC MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 3682 Final Rejection
19020191 QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON ENTITY COLLECTIONS OF ONE OR MORE PAST QUERIES Google LLC HU, JENSEN 2169 Non-Final OA Jan 14, 2025
19009190 CONTROLLING DEVICE OUTPUT ACCORDING TO A DETERMINED CONDITION OF A USER Google LLC PHAM, QUANG 2685 Non-Final OA Jan 03, 2025
18982816 ASSIGNING PRIORITY FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACCORDING TO A DYNAMIC USER QUEUE AND/OR MULTI-MODALITY PRESENCE DETECTION Google LLC NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 Non-Final OA Dec 16, 2024
18947578 GENERATING TEXTUAL SUMMARY ABOUT PHYSICAL LOCATION BASED ON COMPUTING INTERACTIONS PERTAINING TO PHYSICAL LOCATION Google LLC NGUYEN, THU N 2154 Non-Final OA Nov 14, 2024
18943533 ON-DEVICE GENERATION AND PERSONALIZATION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT SUGGESTION(S) VIA AN IN-VEHICLE COMPUTING DEVICE Google LLC CAMERON, ATTICUS A 3658 Non-Final OA Nov 11, 2024
18936720 DETERMINING ENVIRONMENT-CONDITIONED ACTION SEQUENCES FOR ROBOTIC TASKS Google LLC KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL 3657 Non-Final OA Nov 04, 2024
18908294 PAIRING USER HEADPHONES WITH A LOCATION-BASED AUTOMATED ASSISTANT Google LLC SKHOUN, HICHAM 2164 Non-Final OA Oct 07, 2024
18887751 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL OUTPUT ENTAILMENT Google LLC PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 2169 Non-Final OA Sep 17, 2024
18886315 MULTIMODAL INTENT UNDERSTANDING FOR AUTOMATED ASSISTANT Google LLC KIM, ETHAN DANIEL 2658 Non-Final OA Sep 16, 2024
18883994 MANAGING DIALOG DATA PROVIDERS Google LLC ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A 2658 Non-Final OA Sep 12, 2024
18882580 BIASING INTERPRETATIONS OF SPOKEN UTTERANCE(S) THAT ARE RECEIVED IN A VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT Google LLC PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G 2691 Non-Final OA Sep 11, 2024
18823169 Methods for Emotion Classification in Text Google LLC RILEY, MARCUS T 2654 Non-Final OA Sep 03, 2024
18820381 COMBINING RESPONSES FROM MULTIPLE AUTOMATED ASSISTANTS Google LLC SIDDO, IBRAHIM 2681 Non-Final OA Aug 30, 2024
18815537 TWO-PASS END TO END SPEECH RECOGNITION Google LLC COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 Non-Final OA Aug 26, 2024
18815514 DYNAMICALLY DELAYING EXECUTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTIONS AND/OR BACKGROUND APPLICATION REQUESTS Google LLC SIDDO, IBRAHIM 2681 Non-Final OA Aug 26, 2024
18814100 PRE-EMPTIVELY LIMITING RESPONSIVENESS OF VARIOUS ASSISTANT DEVICES IN AN ENVIRONMENT USING AN INAUDIBLE TONE OR OTHER RENDERED OUTPUT Google LLC ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 2656 Non-Final OA Aug 23, 2024
18814060 SUPPLEMENTING VOICE INPUTS TO AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACCORDING TO SELECTED SUGGESTIONS Google LLC KIM, JONATHAN C 2655 Non-Final OA Aug 23, 2024
18802734 IMAGE QUERY PROCESSING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D 2165 Final Rejection Aug 13, 2024
18800656 AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ARCHITECTURE FOR PRESERVING PRIVACY OF APPLICATION CONTENT Google LLC NANO, SARGON N 2443 Non-Final OA Aug 12, 2024
18777390 SUMMARILY CONVEYING SMART APPLIANCE STATUSES Google LLC BOUTAH, ALINA A 2458 Non-Final OA Jul 18, 2024
18775058 Learned Evaluation Model For Grading Quality of Natural Language Generation Outputs Google LLC MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 2657 Non-Final OA Jul 17, 2024
18773129 AUTOMATIC POST-EDITING MODEL FOR GENERATED NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT Google LLC PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 2655 Non-Final OA Jul 15, 2024
18773101 INDEX-SIDE STEM-BASED VARIANT GENERATION Google LLC MOSER, BRUCE M 2154 Final Rejection Jul 15, 2024
18772852 SEMI-DELEGATED CALLING BY AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ON BEHALF OF HUMAN PARTICIPANT Google LLC BOGGS JR., JAMES 2657 Non-Final OA Jul 15, 2024
18765108 VOICE SHORTCUT DETECTION WITH SPEAKER VERIFICATION Google LLC ROBERTS, SHAUN A 2655 Non-Final OA Jul 05, 2024
18765101 AUTOMATED ASSISTANT PERFORMANCE OF A NON-ASSISTANT APPLICATION OPERATION(S) IN RESPONSE TO A USER INPUT THAT CAN BE LIMITED TO A PARAMETER(S) Google LLC SIDDO, IBRAHIM 2681 Non-Final OA Jul 05, 2024
18762552 ACCURATE RESPONSE FOR NOISY USER SPEECH BY CROSS-ATTENTION STITCHING ENCODED AUDIO FEATURES INTO LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC GAY, SONIA L 2657 Non-Final OA Jul 02, 2024
18761117 USER MEDIATION FOR HOTWORD/KEYWORD DETECTION Google LLC KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD 2653 Non-Final OA Jul 01, 2024
18750663 CONTEXTUAL SUPPRESSION OF ASSISTANT COMMAND(S) Google LLC CHAWAN, VIJAY B 2658 Non-Final OA Jun 21, 2024
18750561 ENROLLMENT WITH AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT Google LLC REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2400 Final Rejection Jun 21, 2024
18734624 DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS BY AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT AS A USER ITERATIVELY PROVIDES A SPOKEN UTTERANCE, OR SEQUENCE OF SPOKEN UTTERANCES Google LLC OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2658 Non-Final OA Jun 05, 2024
18674479 ENABLING NATURAL CONVERSATIONS WITH SOFT ENDPOINTING FOR AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT Google LLC WOO, STELLA L 2693 Non-Final OA May 24, 2024
18674509 PERFORMING SUBTASK(S) FOR A PREDICTED ACTION IN RESPONSE TO A SEPARATE USER INTERACTION WITH AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT PRIOR TO PERFORMANCE OF THE PREDICTED ACTION Google LLC PASHA, ATHAR N 2657 Non-Final OA May 24, 2024
18659956 GENERATING AND PROVISIONING OF ADDITIONAL CONTENT FOR SOURCE PERSPECTIVE(S) OF A DOCUMENT Google LLC SHIH, HAOSHIAN 2179 Non-Final OA May 09, 2024
18658531 MODIFICATION AND/OR ITERATIVE MODIFICATION OF MULTI-MODAL CONTENT USING GENERATIVE MODEL(S) Google LLC HOANG, PHI 2619 Non-Final OA May 08, 2024
18656309 SYSTEM(S) AND METHOD(S) FOR UTILIZING GENERATIVE MODEL(S) TO GENERATE CONTENT RESPONSIVE TO VIDEO DATA Google LLC TRAN, DUY ANH 2674 Non-Final OA May 06, 2024
18649608 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOICE-BASED INITIATION OF CUSTOM DEVICE ACTIONS Google LLC ROBERTS, SHAUN A 2655 Non-Final OA Apr 29, 2024
18649054 PROVIDING RELATED QUERIES TO A SECONDARY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT BASED ON PAST INTERACTIONS Google LLC VO, HUYEN X 2656 Non-Final OA Apr 29, 2024
18636006 AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ADAPTED TO FACILITATE SIGN LANGUAGE INTERACTIONS AND DISCOVERABILITY OF RELATED FUNCTIONALITY Google LLC DEBROW, JAMES J 2174 Non-Final OA Apr 15, 2024
18630415 DETERMINING WHETHER AND/OR WHEN TO CAUSE AUTOMATED ASSISTANT(S) TO INITIATE AND CONDUCT AUTOMATED TELEPHONE CALL(S) Google LLC TESHALE, AKELAW 2694 Non-Final OA Apr 09, 2024
18623888 GENERATING IOT-BASED NOTIFICATION(S) AND PROVISIONING OF COMMAND(S) TO CAUSE AUTOMATIC RENDERING OF THE IOT-BASED NOTIFICATION(S) BY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT CLIENT(S) OF CLIENT DEVICE(S) Google LLC NEWAY, SAMUEL G 2657 Non-Final OA Apr 01, 2024
18615767 FACILITATING USER DEVICE AND/OR AGENT DEVICE ACTIONS DURING A COMMUNICATION SESSION Google LLC GODBOLD, DOUGLAS 2655 Non-Final OA Mar 25, 2024
18592066 PERSONAL AGENT USING VISION TRANSFORMER Google LLC HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS 2659 Non-Final OA Feb 29, 2024
18592008 COMPOSITION OF COMPLEX CONTENT VIA USER INTERACTION WITH AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT Google LLC GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C 2459 Final Rejection Feb 29, 2024
18586101 MODIFYING SOURCE CODE USING GENERATIVE MODELS Google LLC RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 Non-Final OA Feb 23, 2024
18684557 STRUCTURAL ENCODING AND ATTENTION PARADIGMS FOR SEQUENCE MODELING Google LLC ADU-JAMFI, WILLIAM NMN 2677 Non-Final OA Feb 16, 2024
18440402 MULTI-DEVICE ARBITRATION USING PAIRWISE RANGE MULTILATERATION BETWEEN EARBUDS AND TARGET DEVICE Google LLC WOLFORD, NAOMI M 3648 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2024
18439322 TILE-BASED IMAGE UNDERSTANDING IN VISION AND LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC WELLS, HEATH E 2664 Non-Final OA Feb 12, 2024
18435750 USER FEEDBACK FOR SPECIFIC PORTIONS OF RESPONSES GENERATED USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) Google LLC MARLOW, ALEXANDER G 2658 Non-Final OA Feb 07, 2024
18433014 LEVERAGING EXTERNAL SUMMARIES WITH LLMS Google LLC GAY, SONIA L 2657 Non-Final OA Feb 05, 2024
18409267 DETERMINING STRENGTH OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN USER CONTACTS Google LLC BURGESS, GLENTON B 2454 Final Rejection Jan 10, 2024
18399151 INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google LLC SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 2172 Final Rejection Dec 28, 2023
18396189 COHORT ASSIGNMENT AND CHURN OUT PREDICTION FOR ASSISTANT INTERACTIONS Google LLC BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R 2151 Non-Final OA Dec 26, 2023
18537585 SYSTEM(S) AND METHOD(S) FOR UTILIZING GENERATIVE MODEL(S) TO GENERATE A PERSONALIZED INTERACTIVE SUMMARY OF CONTENT THAT IS INTERACTIVE Google LLC MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Final Rejection Dec 12, 2023
18528091 GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A 2658 Final Rejection Dec 04, 2023
18387629 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBUST PSEUDONYMIZATION THAT RETAINS DATA DIVERSITY Google LLC STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 2491 Non-Final OA Nov 07, 2023
18387768 HYBRID INFERENCE FOR AN EFFICIENT, LOW LATENCY LLM-BASED ASSISTANT Google LLC OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2658 Final Rejection Nov 07, 2023
18481803 PROMPT COMPLEXITY FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Final Rejection Oct 05, 2023
18375861 MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ASSISTANT FOR VERBAL DEVICE CONTROL Google LLC GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X 2656 Non-Final OA Oct 02, 2023
18235241 USE OF NON-AUDIBLE SILENT SPEECH COMMANDS FOR AUTOMATED ASSISTANTS Google LLC LE, THUYKHANH 2655 Final Rejection Aug 17, 2023
18231606 QUERY RESPONSE USING A CUSTOM CORPUS Google LLC MILLS, FRANK D 2194 Non-Final OA Aug 08, 2023
18231650 REDUCING COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE USAGE VIA TRAINING AND/OR UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 Final Rejection Aug 08, 2023
18365487 UTILIZING ELASTIC WEIGHT CONSOLIDATION (EWC) LOSS TERM(S) TO MITIGATE CATASTROPHIC FORGETTING IN TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL(S) Google LLC KHAN, USMAN A 2637 Non-Final OA Aug 04, 2023
18359550 ROBOTIC REASONING THROUGH PLANNING WITH LANGUAGE MODELS Google LLC HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 3658 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2023
18214404 TRANSITIONING BETWEEN PRIOR DIALOG CONTEXTS WITH AUTOMATED ASSISTANTS Google LLC MARLOW, ALEXANDER G 2658 Final Rejection Jun 26, 2023
18211967 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) QUANTIZATION Google LLC JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 2400 Non-Final OA Jun 20, 2023
18135611 HOT-WORD FREE ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT FUNCTION(S) Google LLC SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 Non-Final OA Apr 17, 2023
18126717 ADAPTING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT BASED ON DETECTED MOUTH MOVEMENT AND/OR GAZE Google LLC NUNEZ, JORDANY 2145 Final Rejection Mar 27, 2023
18119137 AUDIO SIGNAL SYNTHESIS FROM A NETWORK OF DEVICES Google LLC WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN 2655 Non-Final OA Mar 08, 2023
18103255 Location-Based Mode(s) For Biasing Provisioning Of Content When An Automated Assistant Is Responding To Condensed Natural Language Inputs Google LLC SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA 2164 Non-Final OA Jan 30, 2023
18148037 Demonstration-driven Scalable Task-oriented Dialogue Modeling Google LLC COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 Final Rejection Dec 29, 2022
18081557 ADAPTING VIRTUAL FEATURES OF A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR STREAMLINING ASSISTANT INTERACTIONS IN THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT Google LLC HOANG, AMY P 2143 Final Rejection Dec 14, 2022
18081541 DEVICE SENSOR INFORMATION AS CONTEXT FOR INTERACTIVE CHATBOT Google LLC GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X 2656 Non-Final OA Dec 14, 2022
18075191 CONSTRAINING GENERATION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON APPLICATION RUNNING IN FOREGROUND Google LLC NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T 2147 Non-Final OA Dec 05, 2022
17888091 AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION OF A STATUS OF A USER AND/OR PREDICTED DURATION OF THE STATUS Google LLC NGUYEN, TRI T 2128 Final Rejection Aug 15, 2022
17541995 AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTING AUDIO DATA BASED ASSISTANT PROCESSING Google LLC CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2658 Final Rejection Dec 03, 2021
17541091 METHOD(S) AND SYSTEM(S) FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN FEDERATED LEARNING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL(S) Google LLC DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 Non-Final OA Dec 02, 2021
17524185 MACHINE LEARNING METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO PREDICTING MOTION(S) OF OBJECT(S) IN A ROBOT'S ENVIRONMENT BASED ON IMAGE(S) CAPTURING THE OBJECT(S) AND BASED ON PARAMETER(S) FOR FUTURE ROBOT MOVEMENT IN THE ENVIRONMENT Google LLC NGUYEN, HENRY K 2121 Final Rejection Nov 11, 2021
17498254 DETERMINING AND UTILIZING ACTUAL PURPOSE OF USER-ASSEMBLED COLLECTION OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT ITEMS Google LLC SPIELER, WILLIAM 2159 Final Rejection Oct 11, 2021
15815765 COMPARTMENTALIZED SELF REGISTRATION OF EXTERNAL DEVICES Google LLC FUELLING, MICHAEL 3992 Non-Final OA Nov 17, 2017

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