Google Inc.

Alastair Tse

John Nicholas Jitkoff

Michael J Lebeau

Mathew Cowan

Christopher Pedregal

David Singleton

Ricardo Escutia

Yongzhong Lee

Hsun Tang

Charles Su

Christian Robertson

Ken Kawamoto

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method including displaying on a touchscreen display a representation of a keyboard defining a top edge and a bottom edge, and a content area adjacent to the keyboard. The method further includes receiving a user dragging input having motion directed to the bottom edge of the keyboard. The method further includes removing the keyboard from the touchscreen display and expanding the content area to an area previously occupied by the keyboard.

Presenting suggestions from search corpora

The present disclosure provides systems and methods that provides users with information pertaining to the audio properties at one or more points of interest. A database associated the audio properties with the points of interest is built using audio input received from devices at the points of interest. The device may determine that audio properties associated with the received audio input. The audio properties may determine a type of background noise and/or a volume of the background noise. If the type of background noise is music, the audio properties may further include a music genre, a title of a song, whether the music is recorded or there is a live band, etc. The audio properties associated with the point of interest may be updated in a database real time.

Place search by audio signals

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method. A method includes: receiving, by a computing system, a user search query; identifying that the user search query is a location specific search query; submitting, by the computing system to a search engine, the user search query and information indicative of a current location of a computing device, wherein the information indicative of the current location of the computing device is submitted to the search engine responsive to identifying that the user search query is a location specific search query, and wherein the information indicative of the current location of the computing device is in addition to content of the user search query; receiving, by the computing system and from the search engine, a plurality of search results identified by the search engine based on the user search query and the information indicative of the current location of the computing device; and providing, by the computing system, indications of the received plurality of search results for presentation by a display device.

User interface for presenting suggestions from a local search corpus

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method including displaying search results from a plurality of sources in a native search application executing on a computing device. Each search result can be associated with one or more different types of applications. Selection of a particular search result can cause the computing device to open an application corresponding to an application type associated with the search result and display information associated with the search result in the application.

Native search application providing search results of multiple search types

Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for rendering an animation of an object in response to a user selection in a user interface. In accordance with some embodiments, an indication of a selection of a user interface element may be received, and characteristics of the user interface element may be identified. Coordinates corresponding to a spatial location of the user selection may be determined. An animation of an object that changes over time may then be rendered based on the user coordinates and the identified characteristics of the user interface element.

Computerized systems and methods for rendering an animation of an object in response to user input

Minimizing software based keyboard

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, on the one or more computing devices, a location indication from a user concerning a chosen location for potential experiences. A time indication is received, on the one or more computing devices, from the user concerning a time frame for the potential experiences. An experiences database is queried to identify two or more experiences that may be sequentially performed within the defined time period at the chosen location. An itinerary is generated, on the one or more computing devices, for the user based, at least in part, upon the two or more experiences.

Experience sharing system and method

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving from a user, on the one or more computing devices, an indication to create an experience data card for inclusion within an experience database. The indication provides one or more details concerning an experience of the user. The one or more details associated with the indication are compared, on the one or more computing devices, to details associated with one or more experience data cards included within the experience database to determine if matching details exist. If matching details exist on a related experience data card, the user is provided with one or more options for associating the experience of the user with the related experience data card.

A method, computer program product, and computing system for the sharing of experiences is provided. The method may include receiving a photograph having image capture data associated therewith and determining one or more places of a plurality of places with which to associate the photograph, wherein the plurality of places each have one or more locations associated therewith, and wherein determining which one or more places of the plurality of places to which to associate the photograph comprises comparing the image capture data associated with the photograph to the locations associated with the plurality of places. The method may further include generating an experience data card based upon, at least in part, the photograph and storing in a data store an association between the experience data card and the determined one or more places, wherein the data store is communicatively coupled to the one or more computing devices.

A card creation indication is received from a first user concerning a request to create a future experience data card, wherein the future experience data card corresponds to a future experience. Two or more data items related to the future experience are received on the one or more computing devices. The two or more data items include at least one temporal indication. The future experience data card is generated on the one or more computing devices for the future experience based at least in part on the two or more data items related to the future experience. The future experience data card is stored, using the one or more computing devices, in an experience database. The experience database includes a plurality of experience data cards that are each associated with an experience and are each accessible by users of an interface to the experience database.

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including analyzing user interactions with search results provided on a computing device. The method further includes buffering indicators of the user interactions on the computing device. The method further includes periodically transmitting the indicators of the user interactions to a remote server.

Buffering user interaction data

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented search method including receiving, at a non-browser application on a computing device, part or all of a user search query. The method further includes displaying search results responsive to receiving the search query in the non-browser application. The method further includes receiving a user selection of one of the search results. The method further includes automatically displaying, in response to the user selection of the one of the search results, a landing page for the one of the search results in a web browser on the computing device. The method further includes receiving from the user a selection of a first back button in the web browser and, in response to the user selection of the first back button, activating the non-browser application.

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