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Google patents auto-creating accounts when you interact with content

This filing describes a system that automatically creates a user account when a person interacts with content from a service they do not already have an account with. It uses a generated cryptographic key to link the user's device to the service provider's database without requiring manual sign-up steps.

Why it mattersIt could simplify how users access digital services by removing the need to manually register, though it raises questions about how accounts are created behind the scenes.

In the filing’s own words

Identifier dependent operation processing of packet based data communication is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. A content selector component can select, based on the request or trigger keyword, a content item. A link generation component can determine whether the client computing device has an account or a record in a database associated with the service provider device. In the absence of the record or account, the link generation device generates and sends a virtual identifier to the service provider device with instructions to generate an account in the database using the virtual identifier. Once the account is created, the service provider device can communicate with the client computing device.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: receiving an indication of an interaction with a content item rendered by a first computing system, the content item associated with a second computing system; generating, responsive to determining an absence of an identifier linking the first computing system and the second computing system corresponding to the content item, a cryptographic key for creation of an account associated with the first computing system, wherein the absence of the identifier linking the first computing system and the second computing system corresponding to the content item corresponds to an absence of the account with the second computing system, and wherein the cryptographic key for creation of the account is generated responsive to determining the absence; and initiating a communication session with the second computing system based on the cryptographic key.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Device Identifier Dependent Operation Processing of Packet Based Data Communication
Publication number
US20260278269A1
Application number
19675354
Filed
May 12, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 40/205 Physics & computingG06F 21/6254 Physics & computingG10L 17/22 Physics & computingH04L 67/63 Electricity & electronicsG10L 15/26 Physics & computing
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