Abstract: A set of customized dictionaries may be constructed for a particular user, each of the customized dictionaries including a different blending of one or more frequently used words collected from texts submitted by one or more users. A copy of the customized dictionaries may be sent to each of a plurality of electronic devices associated with the particular user to be stored on the electronic device and to aid the particular user in inputting text to the electronic device.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing for display a first set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a first set of symbols; providing for display, at least partially underneath the first set of touch-screen keys the first set of touch-screen keys, a second set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a second set of symbols; detecting a touch gesture by a user over the first and second sets of keys intending to input a first symbol; determining, based on an amount of lapsed time between the detected touch gesture and a previous touch gesture, a context associated with the detected touch gesture; and selecting, based at least in part on the context, a symbol in the first set of symbols or a symbol in the second set of symbols as the first symbol that the user intended to input.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a server providing an on-line service identifies a change associated with a mobile computing device of a user of the on-line service, the on-line service being accessible to the user through a website hosted by the system; the server also in response to the change and without manual user input from the user, modifies aspects of web pages of the website that are associated with use of the on-line service by the user.

Abstract: Particular embodiments of a verification authority associated with a web service may receive a request to access the web service. The request may comprise data uniquely identifying a client device. The request may have been received from a shared device, wherein the shared device is configured for use by a plurality of users. The verification authority may access a social graph of a user associated with the client device to determine whether one or more social-networking users have previously accessed the shared device. The verification authority may then transmit to the client device information indicating which of the social-networking users have previously accessed the shared device.

Abstract: A method may include providing for display a first set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a first set of symbols. The method may also include providing for display at least partially underneath the first set of touch-screen keys a second set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a second set of symbols. At least a portion of the second set of touch-screen keys are visible through the first set of keys. The method may also include detecting a touch gesture by the user over the first and second sets of keys intending to input a symbol. The method may also include determining a context of the input by the user. The method may also include selecting based at least in part on the context a symbol in the first set of symbols or a symbol in the second set of symbols as the symbol that the user intended to input.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a communication session between a first user and one or more second users. The method also includes determining a social context of the communication session, and determining based at least in part on the social context a set of symbols for communication by the first user in the communication session with the second users. The method further includes providing for display to the first user a set of keys corresponding to the set of symbols. The keys indicate symbols for input by the first user in the communication session.

Abstract: In particular embodiments, a client computing device identifies an available timeslot for displaying content on a screen. The client computing device notifies one or more applications of the available timeslot and receives from each of one or more applications a bid to fill the available timeslot with content associated with the application. Each bid indicates the application, indicates a format of the content associated with the application, and provides at least a portion of the content associated with the application. The client computing device selects one of the bids and displays in the available timeslot on the screen the content associated with the selected bid with the format indicated by the selected bid.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving one or more characters inputted by a user; calculating a degree of difficulty of a character string, wherein the degree of difficulty is based on the characters inputted by the user, and wherein the characters inputted by the user comprise a portion of the character string; and if the degree of difficulty is equal to or exceeds a pre-determined threshold, then presenting, on a display of the computing device, an auto-suggestion for completing the character string; else, not presenting, on the display of the computing device, the auto-suggestion for completing the character string.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a power consumption profile for each of multiple devices, where the power consumption profile includes information regarding a typical rate of power consumption by the corresponding device, and receiving status information for a first device of the multiple devices, where the status information includes power status and network connectivity status. The method also includes determining a schedule for sending push events to the first device using a resource-control algorithm, where the determining is based at least in part on a comparison of the power consumption profile for the first device with the power consumption profiles for one or more second devices and the status information for the first device. The method further includes sending the scheduled push events to the first device, where the push events provision content to the first device.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first touch-screen keyboard on a touch-screen display of a computing device; detecting a touch gesture on the touch-screen display; identifying the detected touch gesture as a particular touch gesture, the particular touch gesture being one of a plurality of touch gestures; determining, based on the identification of the particular touch gesture, a second keyboard to display on the touch-screen display, wherein the second keyboard is associated with the particular touch gesture; and displaying the second keyboard on the touch-screen display.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a communication session between a first user and one or more second users. The method also includes determining a social context of the communication session, and determining based at least in part on the social context a set of symbols for communication by the first user in the communication session with the second users. The method further includes providing for display to the first user a set of keys corresponding to the set of symbols. The keys indicate symbols for input by the first user in the communication session.

Abstract: In particular embodiments, a client computing device identifies an available timeslot for displaying content on a screen. The client computing device notifies one or more applications of the available timeslot and receives from each of one or more applications a bid to fill the available timeslot with content associated with the application. Each bid indicates the application, indicates a format of the content associated with the application, and provides at least a portion of the content associated with the application. The client computing device selects one of the bids and displays in the available timeslot on the screen the content associated with the selected bid with the format indicated by the selected bid.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a power consumption profile for a device. Status information for the device may be received, wherein the status information comprises power status and network connectivity status. Using a resource-control algorithm and based on the status information and the power consumption profile, a schedule for sending push events to the device may be determined. Content to be provisioned to the device may be identified, and the scheduled push events may be sent to the device, in order to provision the identified content to the device. The resource-control algorithm may be further based on one or more device-based consumption factors, such as a periodic data usage transfer limit with respect to a specified network and a data usage status with respect to the specified network, or system-wide consumption factors, such as a power threshold that applies across all devices.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first one of a plurality of touch-screen keyboards on a touch-screen display of a computing device; and, in response to a touch gesture, displaying a second one of the keyboards on the touch-screen display in place of the first one of the keyboards.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes a computing device receiving one or more characters as a user enters the characters into a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device. The method also includes the computing device determining one or more auto-suggestions, where each of the auto-suggestions presents a character string determined based at least in part on the entered characters. The method also includes the computing device determining a degree of difficulty of the user completing the respective character string for each of the auto-suggestions. The method further includes, for each of the auto-suggestions, if the degree of difficulty is at least approximately equal to or exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the computing device providing to the user the auto-suggestion for completing the character string.

Abstract: Particular embodiments may locally store, at a client device of a first user, information associated with a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges of a social graph received from a social-networking system. The first user may be associated with a first node of the social graph. The client device may detect that the first user is entering an input term. The client device may provide predictive typeahead results as the first user enters the input term. The predictive typeahead results may be based on the input term. Each predictive typeahead result may correspond to one of the nodes of the social graph stored locally on the client device. Each predictive typeahead result may include at least one image associated with the corresponding node.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, determining a plurality of auto-suggestions for the string; displaying all or a portion of one of the auto-suggestions on the display with the string; and in response to a particular swipe gesture on the display, causing the displayed auto-suggestion to be accepted.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a content object for display based at least in part on one or more filtering criteria. The filtering criteria is a measure of suitability of each content object for presentation based at least in part on social-graph information between a first user and one or more second users or a current geo-location of the first user. The method also includes applying the filtering criteria to the content object; and providing for display on a user interface (UI) the content object based on whether the content object is suitable for presentation based at least in part on the filtering criteria.

Abstract: Particular embodiments may store, at a client device, information associated with nodes and edges of a social graph. A node may comprise a user node or a concept node. Each node may be connected by edges to other nodes of the social graph. A first user may be associated with a first user node of the social graph. The client device may receive a character string from the first user, and identify, as the first user inputs the character string, an edge-type based on the character string and one or more edges of the identified edge-type, wherein the edges are locally stored on the client device. The client device may display one or more predictive typeahead results based on the identified edge-type and the identified edges. The predictive typeahead results may correspond to nodes stored locally on the client device.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes user nodes and edges connecting the user nodes; identifying, based on the social graph, a set of second users corresponding to second-user nodes that are within a specified social degree of separation from a first-user node corresponding to a first user; determining, based on the social graph, that a particular feature is enabled on computing devices associated with at least a threshold number of the identified set of second users; and enabling the particular feature on a computing device associated with the first user.