Google Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Amith Yamasani

Dianne K Hackborn

Erick Tseng

Michael Andrew Cleron

Paul A Dickinson

Jason Parks

Simon Arscott

Evan Stephen Millar

Shuangying Huang

Daniel S Rice

Michael J Bundschuh

Babu Srinivasan

Ivan Wong

Andrew Devron Stadler

Jesus David Rivas

Daniel C W Wong

Kenneth Root

Paul Christopher Eastham

Meghan Desai

Dianne Kyra Hackborn

Mike Chan

Jason B Parks

The disclosed technology includes techniques for preserving battery life of a mobile device by monitoring a mobile application to determine a state of inactivity. An inactive mobile application may be placed in an idle state that may prevent the mobile application from utilizing one or more resources of the mobile device that may tend to drain the battery.

Systems and methods for extending battery life by monitoring mobile application activity

A computer-implemented user interface method includes displaying on a touch screen a portion of a large scale graphical space that is at least multiples larger than the device display, receiving from a user of the device an input to pan within the graphical space, automatically generating a pop up graphical panning control in response to receiving the user input, and receiving a user input to the panning control and providing panning in the graphical space, wherein movement of the panning control in a single selection is able to pan the display across a substantial portion of the large scale graphical space.

Zoom-region indicator for zooming in an electronic interface

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a user with feedback regarding power consumption in a battery-operated electronic device. In one aspect, a method performed by data processing apparatus includes identifying, using the data processing apparatus, usage of a hardware component of a battery-operated electronic device that includes the data processing apparatus, attributing the usage of the hardware component to the hardware component or to a software application that uses the hardware component, recording, using the data processing apparatus, a power consumption resulting from the usage, and presenting power consumption feedback to a user using the data processing apparatus. The power consumption feedback identifies the hardware component or the software application of the electronic device and the power consumption resulting from the usage.

Providing a user with feedback regarding power consumption in battery-operated electronic devices

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for managing user profiles and associated processes of a multi-user computing device. For example, a computing device executes processes associated with a plurality of active user profiles of the computing device, and determines that an aggregate memory allocation of the plurality of active user profiles exceeds a threshold. Responsive to the determining, the computing device selects an active user profile for which to stop activity and automatically stops the activity associated with the selected active user profile.

Multi-user process management

A computing device has multiple user profiles. While a particular user profile is the currently-active user profile of a computing device, the computing device determines whether a binary that is not associated with the particular user profile is already stored at the computing device. In response to determining that the binary is not already stored at the computing device, the computing device downloads the binary from a computing system other than the computing device and associates the binary with the particular user profile. If the binary is already stored at the computing device, the computing device associates the binary with the particular user profile without downloading the binary again.

Re-use of binaries for multiple user accounts

Accelerated panning user interface interaction

Selecting categories with a scrolling control

Zooming user interface interactions

The subject matter of this document can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes displaying, on a user interface of a computing device, a base portion of a keyboard. The method further includes receiving, on the user interface, a user input that includes initiating a contact at a first region of the user interface that is associated with the base portion of the keyboard, moving the contact, while maintaining connection with the user interface, to a second region of the user interface that is outside the first region and that is associated with an extended portion of the keyboard, and releasing the contact at a location within the second region. The method further includes activating a selection in the extended portion of the keyboard based on the location within the second region at which the contact is released.

Extended keyboard user interface

Accelerated panning user interface interactions

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for resolving keystrokes. One of the methods includes receiving a first keystroke and a second keystroke input by a user on a keyboard. The first keystroke corresponds to a first key on the keyboard and the second keystroke corresponds to a second key on the keyboard that is different from the first key. The first keystroke and the second keystroke are determined to have been input at substantially the same time and the first key is determined to be adjacent the second key on the keyboard. In response to the determinations, a suggestion is generated that only one of the two keystrokes was intended to be input.

Proximity based keystroke resolution

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Amith Yamasani