Google Inc.

Adam Cohen

Ilya Firman

Adam Coimbra

Sunny Goyal

Alex Nicolaou

Anand Agarawala

Quazi Hussain

Patrick Dubroy

Michael Jurka

Winson Ws Chung

Ben Eidelson

Saurabh Kumar

Mehdi Alizadeh

Sanjana Patel

Mubaraq Mishra

Vidhya Bhat

Indexing application actions for voice-based execution is provided. An indexer of a device receives, from an application executed by the device, an indication of an action and a deep link corresponding to the action declared by the application via an application programming interface. The indexer accesses an index stored in the memory of the device that is accessible to a plurality of applications. The indexer inputs, into a location in the index, the action and the deep link with a cryptographic token that prevents access to the deep link by unauthorized applications. A digital assistant of the device receives a voice query detected by a microphone and parses the voice query to determine the action. The digital assistant identifies in the index the deep link corresponding to the action. The digital assistant invokes, with the cryptographic token, the deep link to cause the application to perform the action.

Indexing application actions for voice-based execution

Methods and apparatus for displaying display windows in a graphical user interface are disclosed. An example method includes opening, on a computing device, a first root browser window and spawning, from a first link in the first root browser window in response to a user toss-gesture associated with the first link, a first subordinate browser window. The example method further includes displaying, in a hierarchical display feature of the computing device, a hierarchical relationship between the first root browser window and the first subordinate browser window so as to visually indicate hierarchical subordinacy of the first subordinate browser window to the first root browser window.

User interface with hierarchical window display

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Adam Cohen