Google Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Aleksandr Kennberg

Robert John Kroeger

Carlos Ellis Whitt

Matthew James Bolohan

Alexander Nicolaou

Victor Starenky

Aman Bhargava

Pavel Kobyakov

Joseph Rideout

T Mark W Bottomley

Olga Wichrowska

Nicholas J Doyle

Orlando E Marquez

Amey A Shirodkar

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A request that a server system deliver textual posts to a computing device may be received. Posts may be associated with a geographical place of posting and a temporal age. A value that represents a geographical distance from the computing device to the geographical place of posting can be identified. A score for a post may be based on the value that represents the geographical distance and the temporal age of the post. An indication of the score for the particular post may be provided to the computing device so as to cause the computing device to display an indication of the post and to visibly indicate a prominence of the post. The indication of prominence of the post is based on the indication of the score for the post.

Determining message prominence

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating conversations related to a location. One method includes receiving a topic for a real-time conversation from a user, receiving location information related to a location of the user, and creating a real-time conversation object that includes the received topic. The method also includes tagging the created real-time conversation object with the received location information, indexing, based on the received topic and the received location information, the tagged real-time conversation object with respect to other real-time conversation objects, and providing the tagged real-time conversation object in response to a search for real-time conversation objects received from another user.

Creating real-time conversations

A computing device has one or more processors and memory storing programs executed by the one or more processors. The computing device initializes a main application on a first thread. The main application has a first synchronous connection with a target application. After the main application performs one or more operations at the target application through the first synchronous connection, the computing device initializes an assistant process on a second thread. The assistant process has a second synchronous connection with the target application and an asynchronous connection with the main application. After receiving a request from the main application through the asynchronous connection, the assistant process performs one or more operations at the target application through the second synchronous connection.

System and method for reducing startup cost of a software application

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving image data corresponding to an image, processing the image data to identify one or more features within the image, generating one or more keywords based on each of the one or more features, transmitting the one or more keywords to a computing device for displaying a list of the one or more keywords to a user, receiving text, the text comprising at least one keyword of the one or more keywords, that at least one keyword having been selected by the user from the list, and transmitting the image and the text for display, the text being associated with the image.

Text suggestions for images

A system and method for location detection is disclosed. The system and method may derive estimates of a user's location by interfacing with other sources of location data. In one aspect of the invention, a client device may determine the user's location by using locally configured location services. The client device may also query a remote server that contains recent geolocation data of the user. Both the local and remote estimates may be presented to a user. The user may also be allowed to select the location that most accurately represents the user's current location.

System and method for detecting a user location using a latest available location

In one example, a method receiving information indicating that an input field displayed at a presence-sensitive screen has been accessed, wherein the information comprises an input field identifier that identifies the input field. The method further includes selecting heuristic data based on the input field identifier, wherein one or more properties of the heuristic data are usable to generate at least a portion of an input value. The method further includes generating at least the portion of the input value based on the one or more properties of the heuristic data, wherein at least the portion of the input value is assignable to the input field displayed at the presence-sensitive screen.

Pre-filling input fields using heuristic data

A computer system operating a web application with offline capabilities, including a web browser, a local web application, a write queue maintained in the local memory and a persistent local database. When the web application needs to perform an operation on a data item, the web application issues a database request to determine if the data item is in the local database. If the data item is not in the local database, the web application issues the data request to the server system. If the data item is in the local database, the web application performs the operation on the data item stored in the database and writes the operation to the write queue along with the identifier of the data item. When a network connection exits between the client device and the server system, the web interface drains the write queue to the server system.

Architectural pattern for persistent web application design

Automated injection of Java bytecode instructions for Java load time optimization via runtime checking with upcasts. Exemplary embodiments include a method including generating a stack for each of a plurality of bytecodes, generating a subclass configured to keep a history of instructions that have modified the stack, statically scanning a plurality of Java classes associated with the plurality of bytecodes to locate class file configurations and bytecode patterns that cause loading of additional classes to complete a verification of each of the classes in the plurality of Java classes, rewriting the bytecodes to delay the loading of the additional classes until required at a runtime, recording modifications that have been made to the stack by the instructions, and applying the modifications to each of the bytecodes in the plurality of bytecodes.

Systems, methods, and computer products for automated injection of java bytecode instructions for java load time optimization via runtime checking with upcasts

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