Google Inc.

Annie Chen

Matthew Nirvan Sharifi

Dominik Roblek

Yaniv Bernstein

Matthew Wiseman

Yossi Matias

Thomas Bugnon

Gheorghe Postelnicu

Douglas Alexander Aberdeen

Keith Jonathan Coleman

Jason Briggs Cornwell

Daniel Jules Switkin

Andrew Ward Moedinger

Klaus Martin Kretzschmar

Debra Joy Lauterbach

Owen Daniel Otto

George Tzanetakis

Lars Fabian Krüger

Tadeusz J Pietraszek

Paul Morell McDonald

Paul Joyce

Ehud Graff

David S De Kloet

Paul Morrell McDonald

Tim C Jones

Systems and methods for media aggregation are disclosed herein. The system includes a media system that can transform media items into one aggregated media item. A synchronization component synchronizes media items with respect to time. The synchronized media items can be analyzed and transformed into an aggregated media item for storage and/or display. In one implementation, the aggregated media item is capable of being displayed in multiple ways to create an enhanced and customizable viewing and/or listening experience.

Aggregation of related media content

This disclosure relates to a method for providing a display of content consumption by geographic location. The method includes storing, in a data store, geographic locations of a set of users consuming content items and consumption characteristics of the content items, wherein the content items are identified by user devices at the geographic locations while the content items are played by source devices external to the user devices, and wherein information about a content item of the identified content items, which is consumed by a user of the set of users, is transmitted to the server system by a user device of the user. The method also includes extracting, from the data store, geographic locations of consumption and a set of consumption characteristics of each content item of the identified content items, wherein the set of consumption characteristics comprises a title and times of consumption of the content item by the set of users. The method further includes filtering the identified content items based on at least one filter that pertains to times of content consumption by the set of users, ranking the filtered content items based on the geographic locations of consumptions and consumption statistics, selecting, from the ranked content items, popular content items at particular geographic locations of consumption and over a time period, and generating a geographic map displaying to a user each of the selected popular content items at one or more of the particular geographic locations of consumption, the map to display a title and an icon to represent each of the selected popular content items.

Dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location

This disclosure relates to dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location. A processor recognizes content being consumed by a set of users, and identifies geographic locations of the consumption and a set of characteristics associated with the consumption. The processor further determines at least one filter for a user of the set of users and filters the set of consumption characteristics based on the at least one filter. The processor further ranks respective consumed content based on a filtered set of consumption characteristics, and displays to the user subsets of the consumed content according to respective rankings and geographic location.

Apparatus, systems and methods provide incentive-based usage of an audio recognition system. In an aspect, a system is provided that includes a query component configured to receive an audio sample from a device and a recognition component configured to determine an identification of the audio sample. The system further includes a reward component configured to identify a reward associated with the identification of the audio sample, wherein the query component is further configured to provide a query result to the device, the query result comprising the identification of the audio sample and the reward associated therewith.

Incentive-based check-in

Aggregation on related media content

Systems and methods for presenting electronic messages are provided. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, (A) causing to be concurrently displayed in an E-mail application (i) a first view of a message folder that includes one or more electronic messages and (ii) a user interface control indicating one or more alternate views are available for the message folder, wherein the user interface control persistently indicates the availability of the one or more alternative views and (B) hiding the user interface control, without user intervention, responsive to the occurrence of a predetermined system event.

Presentation of messages in multi-sectioned views

An audio recognition service recognizes an audio sample across multiple content types. At least a partial set of results generated by the service are returned to a client while the audio sample is still being recorded and/or transmitted. The client additionally displays the results in real-time or near real-time to the user. The audio sample can be sent over a first HTTP connection and the results can be returned over a second HTTP connection. The audio recognition service further processes check-in selections received from the client for content items indicated by the results. Responsive to receiving the check-in selections, the service determines whether a user is eligible for a reward. If the user is eligible, the service provides the reward.

Real-time audio recognition using multiple recognizers

Interface for real-time audio recognition

Systems and methods audio matching using interest point overlap are disclosed herein. The systems include determining at least one matching reference segment based on a probe segment. Interest points for both the at least one matching reference segment and the probe segment can be generated. Probe segment interest points and matching reference segment interest points can be time aligned and frequency aligned. A count can be generated based on a number of overlapping interest points between each set of reference interest points and the set of probe segment interest points. The disclosed systems and methods allow false positive reference to be identified and eliminated based on the count. The benefits in eliminating false positive matches improve the accuracy of an audio matching system.

Audio matching using time alignment, frequency alignment, and interest point overlap to filter false positives

This disclosure relates to dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location. A recognition component recognizes content being consumed by a set of users, and identifies geographic locations of the consumption and a set of characteristics associated with the consumption. An aggregation component ranks the consumed content based on a subset of the characteristics associated with the consumption, and a display component generates a map displaying subsets of the consumed content as a function of respective rankings and geographic location.

A technique for inverted client side fingerprinting and matching provides the benefits of disposable fingerprinting to identify multiple content streams from multiple clients without overloading a fingerprinting system. Rather than tasking a fingerprinting system with the generation and comparison of all fingerprints, the technique distributes some fingerprinting tasks to the clients receiving the content streams. As a result, the fingerprinting system is not bottlenecked by fingerprinting tasks. In one embodiment, the fingerprinting system can provide additional services to the clients.

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