Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on non-transitory computer storage media. One of the methods is performed by a computer system and includes receiving data representing first keywords selected by a user to constitute a first group of keywords and data representing distinct second keywords selected by the user to constitute a second group of keywords; determining first characteristics of each of the first keywords and second characteristics of each of the second keywords; identifying a common characteristic, common to both the first characteristics and the second characteristics; identifying third keywords that have the common characteristic, wherein all of the third keywords are neither first keywords nor second keywords; obtaining one or more metrics associated with the first, second, and third keywords; and outputting data to enable rendering, on a computing device, a graphic presentation about the first keywords, the second keywords, the third keywords, and the metrics.
Abstract: A reference verification module identifies content items stored in a content repository that include at least a portion of the content included in a reference content item provided by an entity. The reference verification module classifies the reference content item based on the uneven distribution of the percentages of the identified content items that include each of the claimed portions. Specifically, if the average difference between the percentage of content items that include a given portion and the percentages of the remaining content items is above a threshold, then the reference verification module classifies the reference content item as having a higher than threshold likelihood of including third party content.
Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for creating and sharing virtual collaboration objects, including receiving a request from a user to create a virtual collaboration object, the request identifying one or more portions of each of one or more stored digital source objects for inclusion in the virtual collaboration object, where for at least one of the stored digital source objects, the one or more portions comprise less than the full stored digital source object, creating a metadata list in response to the request including the one or more stored digital source objects and portion information identifying the one or more portions of each of the one or more stored digital source objects, generating a collaboration object identifier (ID) corresponding to the virtual collaboration object, associating the metadata list with the collaboration object ID and providing a reference to the collaboration object ID for sharing with one or more other users.
Abstract: This document describes two-layer interactive textiles. In one or more implementations, the interactive textile includes a top textile layer and a bottom textile layer. Conductive threads are woven into the top textile layer and the bottom textile layer. When the top textile layer is combined with the bottom textile layer, the conductive threads from each layer form a capacitive touch sensor that is configured to detect touch-input. The bottom textile layer is not visible and couples the capacitive through sensor to electronic components, such as a controller, a wireless interface, an output device (e.g., an LED, a display, or speaker), and so forth.
Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to determine an identification for a user; determine a location of the user; retrieve a first set of information related to the location and the identification; retrieve relationship information using the identification for the user; determine notification information by filtering the first set of information using the relationship information; generate a notification related to the location of the user and including the notification information; and provide the notification for presentation to the user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 2, 2015
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Mario Ventura Anima, James Kevin Rodgers, Kevin Ferguson
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suggested search queries. One method includes receiving, during a search session, a request for a suggested search query; in response to receiving the request for the suggested search query, identifying an entity that is associated with an item of media content; generating a suggested search query based on the identified entity; and providing data that causes the generated suggested search query to be presented in a user interface.
Abstract: A method is described that includes, on an image processor having a two dimensional execution lane array and a two dimensional shift register array, repeatedly shifting first content of multiple rows or columns of the two dimensional shift register array and repeatedly executing at least one instruction between shifts that operates on the shifted first content and/or second content that is resident in respective locations of the two dimensional shift register array that the shifted first content has been shifted into.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2017
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Albert Meixner, Daniel Frederic Finchelstein, David Patterson, William R. Mark, Jason Rupert Redgrave, Ofer Shacham
Abstract: A method and system for video encoding assets for swivel/360-degree spinners is disclosed. Still images of a 3D object from different perspectives about the 3D object may be stacked and then video encoded to generate video frames of the object from the different perspectives. The video-encoded assets may be stored on a server or other network-connected device, and later retrieved by a connected client device for display processing by a swivel/360-degree spinner on the client device. The swivel/360-degree spinner may utilize native video processing capabilities of the client device and/or of a browser running on the client device to display video motion of the object moving through different angular orientations in response to movement of an interactive cursor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 12, 2015
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Chaitanya Gharpure, James J. Kuffner, Jr.
Abstract: A system and method is provided for sending congestion notification messages through L3 networks and implementation of QCN in L3 switches. For example, according to this system and method, an L3 switch receives one or more data packets, and determines, based on the received one or more data packets, whether the L3 switch is congested. If the L3 switch is congested, it generates a congestion notification message, the congestion notification message including an Internet Protocol (IP) header, the IP header identifying a source of the one or more received data packets as its destination. The L3 switch sends the congestion notification message to the source of the one or more received data packets using information in the IP header.
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining floors at a geographic location using barometric air pressure sensors in a mobile phone. An exemplary method includes identifying a first height associated with a location based on a client device. The first height indicates an entry level of the client device at the location. Using information regarding an amount of outside air pressure at the location, a pressure sensor in the client device is calibrated. A pressure offset for the location is calculated. The pressure offset identifies a difference between air pressure readings inside the location and the amount of outside air pressure at the location. Using the calibrated pressure sensor, a second height associated with the location is determined based on readings from the calibrated pressure sensor and the pressure offset. The second height indicates a different level at the location that the client device is currently on.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Dean Kenneth Jackson, Daniel Victor Klein, John Richard Kochmar
Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for reducing web page load time are provided. An exemplary method for reducing web page load time includes detecting, in a browser, a cursor in a region of a web page. The region surrounds a selectable item associated with a URL. The exemplary method includes determining whether the cursor is present in the region for a threshold period of time. The exemplary method further includes performing a speculative action when it is determined that the cursor has been present in the region for the threshold period of time, without modifying underlying code of a web page associated with the URL.
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query, identifying a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query, the plurality of search results including a plurality of items of digital content distributed using one or more social networking services, and determining that one or more terms provided in the search query is an active keyword and, in response: defining a first sub-set of items, the first sub-set of items including items of the plurality of items of digital content and being responsive to the active keyword, and providing items in the first sub-set of items for display as a discussion stream within search results.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2012
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Sean Liu, David Yen, Sagar Kamdar, Kumar Mayur Thakur, Yihua Wu, Anthony S. Hyatt
Abstract: In a wireless network that includes a plurality of nodes, a method of maintaining, by a first node, information regarding communications links between nodes in the wireless network includes: for each communications link that is established with another node, recording an identification of the other node; and for each message received by the first node from the other node through the communications link with the other node, recording a network pathway by which the message has been sent in the wireless network, the network pathway identifying the nodes and the communications links therebetween by which the message has been sent. Another method includes recording, by a server, for each message that is received by the server from the wireless network, a network pathway by which the message has been sent, the network pathway identifying the nodes and the communications links therebetween by which the message has been sent.
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatic speech recognition using multi-dimensional models. In some implementations, audio data that describes an utterance is received. A transcription for the utterance is determined using an acoustic model that includes a neural network having first memory blocks for time information and second memory blocks for frequency information. The transcription for the utterance is provided as output of an automated speech recognizer.
Abstract: A system for collaboratively generating and/or managing a media channel is provided. The system includes an identification component, a generation component and a permissions component. The identification component identifies a first set of media content associated with a first social group and a second set of media content associated with a second social group. The generation component generates a media channel based on the first and second sets of media content identified as being respectively associated with the first and second social groups. The permissions component grants access to the media channel based at least on permissions generated for the first and second sets of media content in connection with the respective first and second social groups.
Abstract: Methods and systems for filter data packets using an advertising data packet content filter are disclosed. An example method involves maintaining, by a Bluetooth device, an advertising data content filter. The advertising data content filter includes at least one content filter having at least one respective delivery mode that specifies when to deliver data packets matching the at least one content filter to a host Bluetooth stack. The method also involves receiving, by the Bluetooth device, a data packet from an advertising Bluetooth device. The method further involves determining, by the Bluetooth device, that content of the data packet matches a particular content filter of the advertising data content filter. And the method involves providing a portion of the data packet to the host Bluetooth stack in accordance with a particular delivery mode corresponding to the particular content filter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 4, 2016
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Prerepa V. Viswanadham, Wei Wang, Meghan Desai
Abstract: An operating system (OS) platform-level gaming module that is integrated as part of an OS platform for a first wired and/or wireless communication device is operable to detect when a user installs a game written for the first wired and/or wireless communication device. The OS platform-level gaming module is operable to publish the game to a cloud when the installation of the game is detected and install the published game to at least a second wired and/or wireless communication device that is associated with said user. The OS platform-level gaming module may be operable to copy corresponding configurations and settings for the game installed on the first wired and/or wireless communication device to the cloud.
Abstract: A language processing system collects similar queries and respective responses and aggregated by responses. Incorrect responses are determined and filtered by the aggregation. The remaining responses are then used to query a high precision system for attributes of entities specified by the queries. The attribute type is determined from the responses of the high precision system, and corresponding parse rules are generated. The parse rules are then associated with an operation that yields a response that specifies an attribute of the attribute type.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 25, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Jakob D. Uszkoreit, John Blitzer, Engin Cinar Sahin, Rahul Gupta, Dekang Lin, Fernando Pereira