Input to locked computing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9245151-B2
Application number	US-201414486188-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2014
Priority date	Aug 6, 2010
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving at a computing device that is in a locked state, one or more user inputs to unlock the device and to execute at least one command that is different from a command for unlocking the device. The method further includes executing in response to the user inputs to unlock the device an unlocking operation by the device to convert the device from a locked state to an unlocked state. The method further includes executing the at least one command in response to receiving the user inputs to execute the at least one command. The at least one command executes so that results of executing the at least one command are first displayed on the device to a user automatically after the device changes from the locked state to the unlocked state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, by a computing device that is in a locked state, a voice command;
beginning to perform an action identified by the voice command while the computing device is in the locked state, wherein beginning to perform the action identified by the voice command while the computing device is in the locked state includes sending a query specified by the voice command to a remote server system while the computing device is in the locked state;
receiving, by the computing device and after the computing device has begun to receive the voice command, a user request to unlock the computing device;
executing, by the computing device and responsive to the user request to unlock the computing device, an unlocking operation to transition the computing device from the locked state to an unlocked state; and
presenting, by the computing device, while the computing device is in the unlocked state, one or more results responsive to the voice command.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
the voice command was detected using a microphone of the computing device, and
the user request to unlock the computing device is received based on user interaction with a touchscreen of the computing device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user request to unlock the computing device includes user interaction with a keyboard that specifies a passcode.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user request to unlock the computing device includes user interaction with a touchscreen of the computing device to specify an unlocking pattern.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the computing device and from the remote server system, a result to the query while the computing device is in the locked state, wherein the one or more results responsive to the voice command include the result to the query; and
storing, by the computing device, the result to the query while the computing device is in the locked state.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , further comprising first presenting the result to the query after the computing device has transitioned from the locked state to the unlocked state and while the computing device is in the unlocked state.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user request to unlock the device is received while the voice command is being received.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, by a computing device that is in a locked state, a voice command, wherein the voice command includes a search query;
receiving, by the computing device and after the computing device has begun to receive the voice command, a user request to unlock the computing device;
executing, by the computing device and responsive to the user request to unlock the computing device, an unlocking operation to transition the computing device from the locked state to an unlocked state; and
presenting, by the computing device, while the computing device is in the unlocked state, one or more results responsive to the voice command, wherein the one or more results include multiple search results that were provided to the computing device by a search engine in response to the computing device providing the search query to the search engine.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of operations that comprise:
receiving, by a computing device that is in a locked state, a voice command;
beginning to perform an action identified by the voice command while the computing device is in the locked state, wherein beginning to perform the action identified by the voice command while the computing device is in the locked state includes sending a query specified by the voice command to a remote server system while the computing device is in the locked state;
receiving, by the computing device and after the computing device has begun to receive the voice command, a user request to unlock the computing device;
executing, by the computing device and responsive to the user request to unlock the computing device, an unlocking operation to transition the computing device from the locked state to an unlocked state; and
presenting, by the computing device, while the computing device is in the unlocked state, one or more results responsive to the voice command.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein:
the voice command was detected using a microphone of the computing device, and
the user request to unlock the computing device is received based on user interaction with a touchscreen of the computing device.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the user request to unlock the computing device includes user interaction with a keyboard that specifies a passcode.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the user request to unlock the computing device includes user interaction with a touchscreen of the computing device to specify an unlocking pattern.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving, by the computing device and from the remote server system, a result to the query while the computing device is in the locked state, wherein the one or more results responsive to the voice command include the result to the query; and
storing, by the computing device, the result to the query while the computing device is in the locked state.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise first presenting the result to the query after the computing device has transitioned from the locked state to the unlocked state and while the computing device is in the unlocked state.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the user request to unlock the device is received while the voice command is being received.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of operations that comprise:
receiving, by a computing device that is in a locked state, a voice command, wherein the voice command includes a search query;
receiving, by the computing device and after the computing device has begun to receive the voice command, a user request to unlock the computing device;
executing, by the computing device and responsive to the user request to unlock the computing device, an unlocking operation to transition the computing device from the locked state to an unlocked state; and
presenting, by the computing device, while the computing device is in the unlocked state, one or more results responsive to the voice command, wherein the one or more results include multiple search results that were provided to the computing device by a search engine in response to the computing device providing the search query to the search engine.

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Lebeau Michael J
• Jitkoff John Nicholas
• Guy Romain P

Classifications

• G06F3/0486

  Drag-and-drop · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F3/167

  Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback · CPC title

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title