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Google patents smart alarms that cancel themselves when you wake up

Google describes a system where a smart assistant watches for signs that you are already awake, such as movement or interaction with your device. If it detects you are active before the scheduled time, it automatically cancels the alarm so you don't have to manually turn it off. This also triggers other pre-set routines, like playing music or adjusting lights, without needing extra commands.

Why it mattersIt removes the annoying step of physically turning off an alarm clock, making morning routines smoother for people who use smart home devices.

In the filing’s own words

Implementations set forth herein relate to initializing performance of an automated assistant routine and/or dismissing an alarm pre-emptively according to satisfaction of one or more conditions. A condition can be satisfied by a user acknowledging the alarm when the alarm is going off, or causing the alarm to be dismissed prior to a time at which the alarm was scheduled for. The user can cause the alarm to be dismissed pre-emptively by interacting with the automated assistant prior to the time the alarm was scheduled for and/or interacting with a device, which is known to the automated assistant, prior to the time that the alarm was scheduled for. In this way, actions that cause an alarm to be dismissed can be recognized and used to initialize other processes, such as an automated assistant routine, thereby reducing a number of inputs needed from a user.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving, via an automated assistant interface of a computing device, user input that defines a scheduled automated assistant operation to be performed when a temporal event condition occurs; processing, prior to occurrence of the temporal event condition defined by the user input, sensor data captured by the computing device or a separate computing device in an environment; determining, based on processing the sensor data, that a situational condition is satisfied, wherein the situational condition indicates that a user is physically active within the environment; and in response to determining that the situational condition is satisfied prior to occurrence of the temporal event condition: causing performance of the scheduled automated assistant operation to be dismissed, such that an output corresponding to the automated assistant operation is omitted when the temporal event condition subsequently occurs.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
PRE-EMPTIVELY INITIALIZING AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ROUTINE AND/OR DISMISSING A SCHEDULED ALARM
Publication number
US20260268910A1
Application number
19659107
Filed
Apr 27, 2026
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G10L 15/22 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 Physics & computingG06F 9/453 Physics & computingG06F 16/90332 Physics & computingG08B 3/10 Physics & computingG10L 15/08 Physics & computing
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