Google patents bot permission prompts in messaging apps
This patent describes a system where bots in messaging apps ask users for permission before accessing personal data to perform a task. It uses a machine-learning model to suggest actions, but only executes them after the user explicitly approves the data access through a permission interface.
In the filing’s own words
Permission control and management for messaging application bots is described. A method can include providing a messaging application, on a first computing device associated with a first user, to enable communication between the first user and another user, and detecting, at the messaging application, a user request. The method can also include programmatically determining that an action in response to the user request requires access to data associated with the first user, and causing a permission interface to be rendered in the messaging application, the permission interface enabling the first user to approve or prohibit access to the data associated with the first user. The method can include accessing the data associated with the first user and performing the action in response to the user request, upon receiving user input from the first user indicating approval of the access to the data associated with the first user.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a bot deployed within a messaging application, a prediction from a suggestion machine-learning model; generating, by the bot, a suggestion to perform a specific action, the generation of the suggestion to perform the specific action based on the prediction from the suggestion machine-learning model; receiving, by the bot, a request of a user to perform the specific action; programmatically determining, by the bot, that the specific action requires access to user data associated with the user; causing, by the bot, a permission interface to be rendered, the permission interface enabling the user to approve access to user data associated with the user; receiving, by the bot, a user input indicating approval of the access to the user data associated with the user; responsive to receiving the user input indicating approval of the access to the user data associated with the user, accessing, by the bot, the user data associated with the user; and responsive to accessing the user data associated with the user, performing the specific action.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Bot permissions
- Patent number
- US12732387B2
- Application number
- 18921622
- Filed
- Oct 21, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 114
Classified under
H04L 9/3271 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/10 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/168 Electricity & electronicsMore from Google in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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