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Google patents assistant that asks permission before sharing data with apps

This filing describes a method where an automated assistant checks if a user's command needs information from an outside server or app. If so, it asks the user for consent to send that request, ensuring the outside party cannot permanently store the command. If the user declines, the assistant uses local data to provide an alternative answer.

Why it mattersIt highlights a specific technical approach to giving users control over what data their voice assistant shares with third-party services.

In the filing’s own words

Implementations described herein relate to receiving user input directed to an automated assistant, processing the user input to determine whether data from a server and/or third-party application is needed to perform certain fulfillment of an assistant command included in the user input, and generating a prompt that requests a user consent to transmitting of a request to the server and/or the third-party application to obtain the data needed to perform the certain fulfillment. In implementations where the user consents, the data can be obtained and utilized to perform the certain fulfillment. In implementations where the user does not consent, client data can be generated locally at a client device and utilized to perform alternate fulfillment of the assistant command. In various implementations, the request transmitted to the server and/or third-party application can be modified based on ambient noise captured when the user input is received.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving user input that includes a command, the user input being received at a client device of a user; processing, locally at the client device of the user, the user input to determine a category of the command; determining, based on the category of the command, that data from a third-party server or a third-party software application is required to fulfill the command; in response to determining that the data from the third-party server or the third-party software application is required to fulfill the command: transmitting, to the third-party server or the third-party software application, a request to fulfill the command, the request including the command and an indication that the command cannot be stored non-transiently by the third-party server or the third-party software application; and receiving, from the third-party server or the third-party software application, the data to fulfill the command; and causing, based on the data to fulfill the command, responsive content to be rendered at the client device of the user.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A SECURE AUTOMATED ASSISTANT
Publication number
US20260288853A1
Application number
19685984
Filed
May 22, 2026
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 16/433 Physics & computingG06F 3/167 Physics & computingG06F 40/30 Physics & computingG10L 15/22 Physics & computingG10L 2015/223 Physics & computing
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