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Google patents text prediction that stops when messages get sensitive

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

This patent describes a system that suggests text completions while you type but automatically stops making suggestions if it detects the message is about a sensitive topic. It uses a machine learning model to identify these sensitive subjects and disables the predictive feature for the rest of that specific message.

Why it mattersIt offers a privacy-focused approach to typing assistants by ensuring sensitive personal conversations are not analyzed or influenced by automated text suggestions.

In the filing’s own words

A computing system is described that includes user interface components configured to receive typed user input; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive, by a computing system and at a first time, a first portion of text typed by a user in an electronic message being edited; predict, based on the first portion of text, a first candidate portion of text to follow the first portion of text; output, for display, the predicted first candidate portion of text for optional selection to append to the first portion of text; determine, at a second time that is after the first time, that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic; and responsive to determining that the electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic, refrain from outputting subsequent candidate portions of text for optional selection to append to text in the electronic message.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing system and at a first time, a first portion of text of a first electronic message; predicting, by the computing system and based on the first portion of text of the first electronic message, a first candidate portion of computer-generated text; outputting, for display at a second time, the predicted first candidate portion of computer-generated text in the first electronic message; receiving, by the computer system and at a third time, a second portion of text of the first electronic message; determining, by the computing system and at a fourth time that is after the third time, whether the first electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic based on a modification to the first electronic message performed between the third time and the fourth time, wherein determining whether the first electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic comprises determining that the first electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic using a machine learning model; and responsive to determining that the first electronic message is directed to a sensitive topic, refraining from outputting subsequent candidate portions of computer-generated text related to the sensitive topic in the first electronic message.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Selective text prediction for electronic messaging
Patent number
US12762340B2
Application number
18447186
Filed
Aug 9, 2023
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
21
Claims
21

Classified under

G06F 40/274 Physics & computingG06F 3/0237 Physics & computingG06F 3/04842 Physics & computingG06F 21/6245 Physics & computingG06F 40/232 Physics & computingG06F 40/253 Physics & computing
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