US 12,088,539 B2
Determining reply content for a reply to an electronic communication
Phillip Neal Sharp, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Prabhakar Raghavan, Saratoga, CA (US); Thompson Alexander Ivor Gawley, Palo Alto, CA (US); Balint Miklos, Zurich (CH); Karol Kurach, Zurich (CH); Tobias Kaufmann, Zurich (CH); Gregory Sean Corrado, San Francisco, CA (US); and László Lukács, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/070,231.
Application 18/070,231 is a continuation of application No. 16/938,366, filed on Jul. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,516,156.
Application 16/938,366 is a continuation of application No. 16/115,162, filed on Aug. 28, 2018, granted, now 10,728,184, issued on Jul. 28, 2020.
Application 16/115,162 is a continuation of application No. 14/620,630, filed on Feb. 12, 2015, granted, now 10,079,785, issued on Sep. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0353513 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/02 (2022.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/107 (2023.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01)
CPC H04L 51/02 (2013.01) [G06F 16/355 (2019.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by A system comprising:
memory storing instructions;
one or more processors operable to execute the instructions to:
identify an electronic communication that is formulated by a sending user and sent to a receiving user;
determine multiple message features of the electronic communication;
determine a given n-gram to provide as a suggestion for replying to the electronic communication, wherein in determining the given n-gram to provide as the suggestion one or more of the processors are to:
determine, based on processing the message features using a trained machine learning system, reply content that is appropriate for replying to the electronic communication, wherein the reply content indicates a plurality of unique n-grams that have similar semantic meanings;
select the given n-gram from the plurality of unique n-grams; and
before the receiving user has started typing, via a client device, any reply to the electronic communication:
cause the client device to present, along with a presentation of the electronic communication, the given n-gram as a selectable suggestion for inclusion in a reply to the electronic communication.