Methods and systems for installing and executing applications

• US 9,361,084 B1
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Costa, Antonio Bernardo Monteiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorvil, Richemond
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chavez, Rodrigo
• Application Number:
  US14/080,059
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

Methods and systems for receiving applications are described. A device, such as a wearable computing device, may receive an input, which may be verbal, motion, or text, for example. The device may parse the input to recognize any keywords and may further identify applications associated with the recognized keywords. The device may determine a priority list for the identified applications based at least in part on a relevance associated with the recognized keywords. In addition, the device may provide for display the priority list of the applications. The device may receive a request to access an application from the plurality of applications, and in response to the request to access the application, install the application. The device may further execute the installed application to perform a function based at least in part on the verbal input, which may be executed without additional input after installation.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing system, a verbal input;

parsing the verbal input to recognize one or more keywords;

identifying a plurality of applications associated with the recognized one or more keywords;

determining a priority list for the plurality of applications based at least in part on a relevance associated with the one or more recognized keywords;

providing for display, by the computing system, the priority list for the plurality of applications;

receiving a request to access an application from the priority list for the plurality of applications; and

in response to the request to access the application from the priority list for the plurality of applications, installing, by the computing system, the application, and executing the installed application after installing the application to perform a function based at least in part on the verbal input without receiving an additional input.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an additional verbal input;

parsing the additional verbal input to recognize one or more additional keywords;

determining that the recognized one or more additional keywords correspond to the installed application; and

executing the installed application to perform another function based at least in part on the additional verbal input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a priority list for the plurality of applications based at least in part on the relevance associated with the recognized one or more keywords comprises:

determining the priority list for the plurality of applications based also on user-reviews associated with respective applications of the plurality of applications.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a priority for the plurality of applications based at least in part on the relevance associated with the recognized one or more keywords comprises:

determining the priority for the plurality of applications based also on a purchase cost associated with installing respective applications of the plurality of applications.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a priority for the plurality of applications based at least in part on the relevance associated with the recognized keyword comprises:

determining the priority for the plurality of applications based also on promotion information corresponding to respective applications of the plurality of applications.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising executing in an audio format at least part of the priority list for the plurality of applications.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, that when executed by a computing device having at least one processor, cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:

receiving a verbal input;

parsing the verbal input to recognize one or more keywords;

identifying a plurality of applications associated with the recognized one or more keywords;

determining a priority list for the plurality of applications based at least in part on a relevance associated with the one or more recognized keywords;

providing for display the priority list for the plurality of applications;

receiving a request to access an application from the priority list for the plurality of applications; and

in response to the request to access the application from the priority list for the plurality of applications, installing the application, and executing the installed application after installing the application to perform a function based at least in part on the verbal input without receiving an additional input.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the parsed verbal input is a first verbal input, and wherein the instructions are further executable by the computing device to cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:

receiving an additional verbal input;

parsing the additional verbal input to recognize one or more additional keywords;

determining that the recognized one or more additional keywords correspond to the installed application; and

executing the installed application to perform a function based at least in part on the additional verbal input.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the function of parsing the verbal input to recognize one or more keywords comprises:

determining a pitch or tone based on the verbal input; and

parsing the verbal input to recognize one or more keywords based at least in part on the pitch or tone.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the function of determining a priority list for the plurality of applications based at least in part on the relevance associated with the recognized one or more keywords comprises:

determining the priority list for the plurality of applications based also on a location of the device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the function of identifying a plurality of applications associated with the recognized one or more keywords comprises identifying a plurality of applications based on a predefined threshold number of applications.

12. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform functions comprising;

receiving an input;

parsing the input to recognize one or more keywords;

identifying a plurality of applications associated with the recognized one or more keywords;

determining a priority list for the plurality of applications based at least in part on a relevance associated with the one or more recognized keywords;

providing for display the priority list for the plurality of applications;

receiving a request to access an application from the priority list of the plurality of applications; and

in response to the request to access the application from the priority list for the plurality of applications, installing the application, and executing the installed application after installing the application to perform a function based at least in part on the input without receiving an additional input.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving an additional input;

parsing the additional input to recognize one or more additional keywords;

determining that the recognized one or more additional keywords correspond to the installed application; and

executing the installed application to perform a function based at least in part on the additional input.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the function of determining a priority list for the plurality of applications based at least in part on the relevance associated with the recognized one or more keywords comprises:

determining the priority list for the plurality of applications based also on a frequency of use associated with respective applications of the plurality of applications.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the function of receiving an input comprises:

receiving the input via text or detecting a motion input via a sensor.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the function of identifying a plurality of applications associated with the recognized one or more keywords comprises:

identifying a predefined number of applications associated with the recognized one or more keywords.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein executing the installed application to perform a function based at least in part on the input comprises:

executing the installed application to perform a function using information stored in memory, wherein the information comprises one or more of contacts information, location information, and payment information.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the input is a verbal input.