US 12,250,336 B2
Proactive caching of transient assistant action suggestions at a feature phone
Diego Accame, San Francisco, CA (US); Siddharth Jain, Bengaluru (IN); Bartlomiej Borawski, Zurich (CH); and Yujie Wan, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/216,460.
Application 18/216,460 is a continuation of application No. 17/588,669, filed on Jan. 31, 2022, granted, now 11,695,863.
Application 17/588,669 is a continuation of application No. 17/118,485, filed on Dec. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,240,363, issued on Feb. 1, 2022.
Application 17/118,485 is a continuation of application No. 16/618,604, granted, now 10,897,529, issued on Jan. 19, 2021, previously published as PCT/US2019/059812, filed on Nov. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0040027 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04M 1/72403 (2021.01)
CPC H04M 1/72403 (2021.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by an assistant client application executed by one or more processors of a user device, the method comprising:
while the assistant client application is executing at the user device, interfacing with a remote system to prefetch one or more assistant action suggestions, for the assistant client application, and corresponding metadata, wherein the prefetched assistant action suggestions comprise:
a given suggestion that comprises content that is descriptive of a given assistant action, the given suggestion being associated with given metadata, of the corresponding metadata, the given metadata comprising:
action metadata that differs from the content and that comprises less bytes than the content;
writing the prefetched transient assistant action suggestions, and the corresponding metadata, to a proactive cache in local storage of the user device;
subsequent to writing the fetched transient assistant action suggestions, and the corresponding metadata, to the proactive cache in the local storage, and when the assistant client application is subsequently executing at the user device:
determining that the assistant client application is in a state in which assistant action suggestions are to be provided; and
in response to determining that the assistant client application is in the state in which transient assistant action suggestions are to be provided:
accessing the proactive cache in the local storage to select a subset of the assistant action suggestions, the subset including at least the given suggestion; and
rendering the subset of the assistant action suggestions at the user device and via the assistant client application, including rendering the given suggestion, wherein rendering the given suggestion comprises displaying the content;
wherein further user input directed to the rendered given suggestion causes the assistant client application to utilize the locally stored action metadata, in lieu of the content, in initiating performance of a given assistant action that corresponds to the given suggestion.