Google Inc.

Rebecca Chiou

Yossi Matias

Brandon Charles Barbello

Yi Wang

Jan Piotr Jedrzejowicz

Nadav Bar

Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr

Benjamin Schlesinger

Noam Etzion-Rosenberg

Joseph Joseph Cherukara

Shavit Matias

Aditi Bhargava

Usman Abdullah

Ori Kabeli

Andrew George Shebanow

Hong Chen

Alex Agranovich

Yue Gan

Eric Erfanian

Paul Dunlop

Bin Sun

Kyungmin Youn

Charlotte Hult

Yixuan Geng

Nir Shemy

Michelle Tadmor

A computing device is described that accepts, a telephone call, from another device, initiated by a caller. Prior to establishing a telephone user interface that receives spoken input from the user and outputs spoken audio from the caller, the computing device executes a call screening service that outputs an audio user interface, to the other device and as part of the telephone call. The audio user interface interrogates the caller for additional information including a purpose of the telephone call, which allows the user to have more context of the telephone call before deciding whether to accept the call or hang up. The computing device outputs a graphical user interface associated with telephone call. The graphical user interface includes an indication of the additional information obtained via the audio user interface that interrogates the caller.

Synchronous communication using voice and text

Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is prospective to a current time. The hold duration is determined based on previous calls between one or more call devices and the target entity. The hold duration is provided for display by the first call device prior to the initiation of the call between the first call device and the target entity.

Determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls

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Rebecca Chiou