Google Inc.

Monument Peak Ventures, LLC

Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC

Alison Boncha

Brett Rolston Lider

Balaji Srinivasan

Zach Yeskel

Zachary Yeskel

Gregory Matthew Marra

Keith Stoll Karn

Noah Joseph Stupak

Theresa Kathryn Guarrera

Yonatan Zunger

Andrew Ames Bunner

Boris Mazniker

Kavi Harshawat

Austin Chang

Barbara Veloso Bacharach

Eduardo Knust Thuler

Sandeep Mopuru

Joseph Robert Smarr

Frank Marino

Kathleen Ko

Marcus Lowe

Priscilla Dao Pham

Bin Chang

Lauren Stephens

In one implementation a method is provided that includes receiving a coalesced notification from a client device associated with a social group. The coalesced notification indicating that a number of messages transmitted between a first and a second user of the social group meets a pre-determined number. In this regard, the messages comprise messages associated with the first user and messages associated with the second user. The coalesced notification is provided to a display without providing contents of the messages associated with the first user and the messages associated with the second user. An interaction with the coalesced notification is detected at the display. Based on the interaction, it is determined whether to present at the display new messages in a unified list. The unified list comprising a first portion of the messages associated with the first user and a second portion of the messages associated with the second user.

Coalesced notifications for social groups

A digital video camera comprising: user controls enabling a user to select between at least an up input, a down input, a left input, a right input, and a confirmation input; and a program memory storing instructions to implement a method for trimming a digital video sequence. The method includes: selecting a digital video sequence; initiating a trimming operation; accepting user input to select a start frame and an end frame for a trimmed digital video sequence, wherein the up input and the down input are used to select between a start frame selection mode and an end frame selection mode, and the left input and the right input are used to scroll through the frames of the selected digital video sequence; and trimming the selected video sequence to include the frames between the selected start frame and the selected end frame.

Digital camera user interface for video trimming

Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. A method includes receiving user input of a user of a first plurality of users of a first service to transmit an invitation to a second plurality of users to become members of the first service, wherein the first plurality of users are associated with respective online accounts of the first plurality of online accounts, the second plurality of users are specified in the user input and are associated with respective online accounts of a second plurality of online accounts of a second service. The method also includes in response to the user input of the user of the first plurality of users of the first service to transmit the invitation to the second plurality of users to become a member of the first service, determining that a set of usage parameters of a subset of the second plurality of online accounts of the second service do not satisfy one or more activity criteria for becoming a member of the first service, preventing transmission of the invitation to become a member of the first service to a subset of users of the second plurality of users of the second service, wherein the subset of users of the second plurality of users of the second service corresponds to the subset of the second plurality of online accounts of the second service that do not satisfy the one or more activity criteria, and sending the invitation to become a member of the first service to remaining users in the second plurality of users. The method further includes in response to one or more users of the remaining users accepting the invitation to become members of the first service, providing a notification data to inform the user that the one or more users of the remaining users have become members of the first service, and in response to a selection of the notification data by the user, providing a user interface presenting customized operations to be performed by the user with respect to each of the one or more users of the remaining users that have become members of the first service.

Generating notifications based on formation of memberships

A system and method is disclosed for informing a user of recent activities in an online social network. A message group in an online activity stream of an online network is identified. The message group includes a first message describing a first activity of an online user of the online network, and multiple second messages responsive to the first message, the second messages being representative of multiple ancillary activities performed in the online network with respect to the first activity. A single notification is generated that includes a first description of the first activity, different than the first message, and a second description of the multiple ancillary activities different than each of the multiple second messages. The single notification is then presented in a notification list with other notifications.

Context and content in notifications

Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. One of the methods includes identifying a selection to invite users to become members of a social network and generating prompt data to allow invitations to be sent to the users based on the selection. The method further includes determining whether indications of becoming members of the social network are received from one or more of the users. The method includes transmitting notification data to inform a member that the one or more users have become members of the social network in response to determining that the indications of becoming members are received.

The disclosed subject matter relates to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for ordering notifications for display in a social networking environment. One example system is configured to obtain a set of notifications for a user, wherein each notification in the set of notifications is generated in response to an event in a social network and, for each notification in the set of notifications, determine an event type associated with the notification and calculate a priority score for the notification based on the event type associated with the notification. The system is further configured to display the set of notifications based on the priority score for each notification in the set of notifications.

Prioritized notifications in a social network for a user-selected view

Implementations generally relate to providing images with notifications. In some implementations, a method includes generating a notification to a target user in a social network system. The method also includes selecting one or more of the images associated with the notification based on one or more predefined selection criteria. The method also includes cropping one or more of the selected images based on one or more predefined cropping criteria. The method also includes causing the cropped images to be displayed with the notification.

Providing images with notifications

A system and method is disclosed for informing a user of recent activities in an online social network. A notification list, displayed in the online social network, includes one or more visual references, with each visual reference displaying at least one line of context information and at least one line of content information. The context information may include a part of a message describing an original activity performed by a user in the online social network, and the content information may include a concise representation of one or more ancillary activities made by other users in response to the original activity.

Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.

Intelligent cropping of images based on multiple interacting variables

A method for generating coalesced notification data includes receiving first message data that is configured to be processed to display a first message. The method includes receiving second message data, which is configured to be processed to display a second message. The method further includes determining whether the first message data and the second message data are associated with a social group and merging the first message data and the second message data to generate coalesced notification data, which is processed to display a coalesced notification at the client device. The coalesced notification provides controls to display an interface that includes a first portion of the first message and a second portion of the second message in a unified list.

A portable electronic device providing a user-specified input string, comprising: user controls enabling a user to select between at least an up input, a down input, a left input, a right input, and a confirmation input; and a program memory storing instructions configured to implement a method for providing a user-specified input string. The method includes: displaying a string input interface including a string entry section, and at least two independently scrollable character selection sections; accepting user input to sequentially select characters, wherein the up input and the down input are used to select a scrollable character selection section, the left input and the right input are used to scroll through the characters in the selected scrollable character selection section to select a particular character, and the confirmation input is used to add the selected particular character to the input string displayed in the string input section.

Digital camera user interface for text entry

Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing a user with notifications about events in a social network. A system may be configured to determine that a number of events for a user have occurred on a social network, wherein each event for the user is associated with an entity, calculate a score for each event based on a profile for the user and a profile for the entity associated with the event, and generate a notification for the user, wherein the notification comprises a plurality of information elements, wherein each information element is associated with one of the events in the number of events, and wherein the plurality of information elements in the notification are prioritized based on the score for each of the events.

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Alison Boncha