Google patents AI that suggests text formatting based on your past writing
This filing describes a system that watches how you type and uses a machine learning model to predict how you usually format specific phrases. It compares your current input against your past writing habits to suggest a formatting style, such as bold or italics, and updates its records with your choices.
In the filing’s own words
A method includes identifying a user input of a candidate text portion into an electronic document. A stored text entry that corresponds to the candidate text portion is identified among stored text record. The candidate text portion and at least part of the stored text entry is provided as input to a trained machine learning model. An output identifying (i) a formatting type for the candidate text portion, and (ii) a level of confidence that the formatting type is appropriate for the candidate text portion is obtained from the trained machine learning model. A notification to a user of the electronic document of a formatting suggestion according to the formatting type is generated. The stored text records are updated with the candidate text portion and the formatting type based on the output.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: identifying a user input of a candidate text portion into an electronic document; identifying, among stored text records, a stored text entry that corresponds to the candidate text portion; providing the candidate text portion and at least part of the stored text entry as input to a trained machine learning model; obtaining, from the trained machine learning model, an output identifying (i) a formatting type for the candidate text portion, and (ii) a level of confidence that the formatting type is appropriate for the candidate text portion; generating a notification to a user of the electronic document of a formatting suggestion according to the formatting type; and updating the stored text records with the candidate text portion and the formatting type based on the output.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- USER-SPECIFIC TEXT RECORD-BASED FORMAT PREDICTION
- Publication number
- US20260289314A1
- Application number
- 19692973
- Filed
- May 29, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06N 3/084 Physics & computingG06F 40/103 Physics & computingG06F 40/169 Physics & computingG06F 40/258 Physics & computingG06N 20/00 Physics & computingG06V 10/464 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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