ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,879, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Distilling to a target device based on observed query patterns" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving user queries directed toward a cloud-based assistant service. For each received user query directed toward the cloud-based assistant service, the method also includes extracting one or more attributes from the user query and logging the user query into one or more of a plurality of category buckets based on the one or more attributes extracted ...