Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for providing a visual cue of overscrolling displayed content on an electronic device. When the end of a scrollable page or content has been reached, the visual cue corresponds to the user's physical scrolling input. The content in the window is effectively attached to the window so that when the end of the content is reached in one direction, the window containing the content is pulled in the same scrolling direction. The pulling in the scrolling direction occurs in a logarithmically decreasing manner, providing a tactile-like visual effect that the outer frame of the window is resisting the attempt to scroll further in the scrolling direction. The visual resistance effect may include squishing or stretching portions of the window without distorting the content within the window.

Abstract: An example method includes, responsive to receiving an indication of an incoming communication, identifying, by a computing device, first and second portions of an image that are associated with respective first and second portions of a face of a human user, wherein the human user has been determined to be an originator of the incoming communication. The example method further includes outputting, by the computing device and for display, the first and second portions of the image that are associated with the respective first and second portions of the face of the human user, and outputting, by the computing device and for display, message content associated with the incoming communication, such that the message content as displayed at least partially overlays the second portion of the image.

Abstract: Methods for displaying communication windows are provided. In one aspect, a method includes providing, for display in a graphical user interface, a first window that includes a first communication session between a first sending user and a receiving user. The first window is displayed at a first location associated with a representation of the first sending user. The method also includes providing a second window that includes a second communication session between a second sending user and the receiving user for display at a second location associated with a representation of the second sending user. The second window is provided for display either adjacent to the first window, or the second window is provided for display in a stack with the first window such that visibility of the second window in the stack is limited to a portion of the second window. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

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.

Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing a light bar for a web browser in an immersive mode. A system is configured to display a web browser in a first browsing mode, wherein the browser in the first browsing mode comprises one or more tabs and receive, from a user, an indication to enter a second browsing mode for the web browser. In response to receiving the indication, the web browser may be displayed in the second browsing mode in which the one or more tabs are not shown. One or more light bars may also be displayed in a display area of the web browser at locations corresponding with the one or more tabs. Each of the one or more light bars is associated with one of the one or more tabs.

Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a current context associated with a mobile computing device and determining, based on the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from a current mode of operation to a second mode of operation during which the mobile computing device monitors ambient sounds for voice input that indicates a request to perform an operation. The method can further include, in response to determining whether to switch to the second mode of operation, activating one or more microphones and a speech analysis subsystem associated with the mobile computing device so that the mobile computing device receives a stream of audio data. The method can also include providing output on the mobile computing device that is responsive to voice input that is detected in the stream of audio data and that indicates a request to perform an operation.

Abstract: In one aspect, this application describes a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations that include receiving, from a user of a computing device, a spoken input that includes a note and an activation phrase that indicates an intent to record the note. The operations also include determining a target address based at least in part on an identifier associated with a registered user of the computing device, wherein the target address is determined without receiving, from the user, an input indicating the target address when the spoken input is received. The operations also include defining a communication that includes a machine-generated transcript of the note, and sending the communication to the target address.

Abstract: In one aspect, this application describes a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations that include receiving, from a user of a computing device, a spoken input that includes a note and an activation phrase that indicates an intent to record the note. The operations also include determining a target address based at least in part on an identifier associated with a registered user of the computing device, wherein the target address is determined without receiving, from the user, an input indicating the target address when the spoken input is received. The operations also include defining a communication that includes a machine-generated transcript of the note, and sending the communication to the target address.

Abstract: Various features for a computer operating system include mechanisms for operating where a single native application, in the form of a Web browser, exists for an operating system, and all other applications run as Web apps of the browser application. A computer-implemented object tracking method includes instantiating, a first time, an operating system object on a computing device; automatically identifying contextual meta data that defines a state of objects that are open on the computing device, other than the instantiated operating system object, when the operating system object is instantiated; and storing the identifying contextual meta data in correlation with the operating system object, wherein the contextual meta data identifies one or more objects that are active in the operating system when the operating system object is instantiated.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for integrating web applications from a web browser into an operating system. The method includes monitoring web application installation in a web browser at a computing device. The method further includes determining that at least one web application has been installed in the web browser. The method further includes creating a link to the web application in an operating system at the computing device in response to determining that the web application has been installed. Activating the link opens the web application in the web browser from a source external to the web browser.

Abstract: A method for providing a dynamic system-generated set of access points to a user including determining at least one web application or one web page to include within a set of access points according to a set of criteria, generating an access point for the determined web application or one web page, adding the generated access point to the set of access points such that the set of access points includes at least one access point corresponding to a web page and at least one access point corresponding to a web application and providing the set of access points for display to a user in a first page of a web browser.

Abstract: An apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions to facilitate providing a first window for display while hiding from display one or more additional windows. The instructions may facilitate receiving a switching input. The instructions may facilitate, in response to the switching input, providing a plurality of windows for display. The providing a plurality of windows may include changing a display view from the first window to the plurality of windows. The instructions may facilitate selecting one of the plurality of windows. The selecting one of the plurality of windows may include changing the display view from the plurality of windows to the selected one of the plurality of windows while hiding from display one or more other windows. Methods for displaying windows and machine-readable storage medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: A computer-implemented user interface method includes displaying content in a first window on a display of a computing device, receiving a dragging user input on an element at a periphery of the window, and in response to receiving the dragging input, generating and displaying a second window on the display of the computing device and displaying the first window simultaneously with the second window.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes presenting a first window in a graphical user interface. The method includes presenting at least a portion of each secondary window. The method includes presenting one or more indicators indicating that additional windows exist. The method includes receiving a first user selection of a first one of the indicators. The method includes bringing at least one of the additional windows to the foreground, moving the at least one of the additional windows across the graphical user interface to be in view of the graphical user interface, sending the first window and the secondary windows behind the at least one of the additional windows, and moving at least one of the first window and the secondary windows across the graphical user interface to be out of view of the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of multisensory speech detection is disclosed. The method comprises determining an orientation of a mobile device and determining an operating mode of the mobile device based on the orientation of the mobile device. The method further includes identifying speech detection parameters that specify when speech detection begins or ends based on the determined operating mode and detecting speech from a user of the mobile device based on the speech detection parameters.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for managing tabs in a graphical user interface. The method includes receiving a first user input that selects a first tab from among multiple collapsible tabs in a tab area of a tabbed interface. The method further includes determining that the first user input occurs for at least a threshold amount of time. The method further includes expanding the first tab from a collapsed state to an expanded state in response to determining that the first user input occurs for at least the threshold amount of time. The method further includes collapsing a second tab, from among the multiple collapsible tabs, from the expanded state to the collapsed state in response to determining that the first user input occurs for at least the threshold amount of time.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for managing tabs in a graphical user interface. The method includes receiving a first user input that selects a first tab from among a plurality of tabs in a tab area of a tabbed interface. The method further includes expanding a dimension of the first tab and each of a first subset of tabs, from among and including fewer than all of the plurality of tabs, around the first tab in response to receiving the first user input.

Abstract: A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device has moved between two locations, and sending the second audio data to the mobile device in response to the indication.

Abstract: A method may include receiving by a current computer a customization application, the customization application including a control panel to establish user preferences for a user account of the cloud-based service and/or system settings for the second computer; receiving by the current computer an input to the customization application to establish one or more user preferences for the user account and/or one or more system settings for the second computer; and transmitting from the current computer to a server associated with the cloud-based service the one or more user preferences and a username for the user account and/or the system settings for the second computer.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including receiving a partial query term from a user. The method further includes providing the partial query term to multiple data provider modules. Additionally, the method includes receiving a set of search suggestion items responsive to the partial query term and receiving information identifying a category for each search suggestion item. The method further includes rendering a representation of each search suggestion item, and receiving a user selection identifying one of the search suggestion items from the user interface. And, the method includes rendering a status bar indicating the user selection.