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Google patents search suggestions based on nearby media audio

This filing describes a system that listens to background audio from a device's microphone to identify what media is currently playing. It then uses that information to automatically suggest relevant search queries to the user without requiring them to type anything first.

Why it mattersIt offers a glimpse into how search engines might anticipate user needs by passively analyzing the sounds around them, potentially making finding information about current media faster.

In the filing’s own words

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suggested search queries. One method includes receiving, during a search session, a request for a suggested search query; in response to receiving the request for the suggested search query, identifying an entity that is associated with an item of media content; generating a suggested search query based on the identified entity; and providing data that causes the generated suggested search query to be presented in a user interface.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving an indication that a user has initiated a search session at a client device, wherein the indication does not include any characters input by the user; obtaining data representative of background audio captured by a microphone of the client device, wherein the background audio captures playback of an item of media content; identifying, based on the data representative of the background audio, one or more entities associated with the item of media content; generating at least one suggested search query based on the one or more entities associated with the item of media content; and providing the at least one suggested search query to the client device for presentation in a user interface of the client device without receiving a character input for a search query from the user.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
MEDIA CONSUMPTION CONTEXT FOR PERSONALIZED INSTANT QUERY SUGGEST
Publication number
US20260288857A1
Application number
19687883
Filed
May 26, 2026
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 16/435 Physics & computingG06F 16/951 Physics & computingG06F 16/9535 Physics & computingG06F 16/9538 Physics & computing
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