Google Inc.

Austin Chang

Effie Goenawan

Gregory Matthew Marra

David Robert Black

Alison Boncha

Abraham Lee

Eduardo Knust Thuler

Barbara Veloso Bacharach

Arvind Sivaram Sharma

James Stephen Higgins

Brett Rolston Lider

Amar Gandhi

Kathleen Ko

Michael Harry Lintz

Eider Silva De Oliveira

Gregory Scott

Saurabh Sharma

Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).

Adaptation(s) based on correlating hazardous vehicle events with application feature(s)

Implementations set forth herein relate to interactions, between vehicle computing devices and mobile computing devices, that reduce duplicative processes from occurring at either device. Reduction of such processes can be performed, in some instances, via communications between a vehicle computing device and a mobile computing device in order to determine, for example, how to uniquely render content at an interface of each respective computing device while the user is driving the vehicle. These communications can occur before a user has entered a vehicle, while the user is in the vehicle, and/or after a user has left the vehicle. For instance, just before a user enters a vehicle, a vehicle computing device can be primed for certain automated assistant interactions between the user and their mobile computing device. Alternatively, or additionally, the user can authorize the vehicle computing device to perform certain processes immediately after leaving the vehicle.

Automated assistant that detects and supplements various vehicle computing device capabilities

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

Implementations relate to a supervised contact list for user accounts. In some implementations, a method includes determining an activity related to a particular user is pending on a device operated by a supervised user associated with a supervised account. The method includes associating the particular user with a particular user identifier, and determining whether the particular user identifier is present on a supervised contact list associated with the supervised account, where the supervised contact list comprises identifiers for one or more users. The one or more users are selected by a supervisor user. The method includes determining that the activity related to the particular user to be performed should be disallowed, based on whether the particular user identifier is present on the supervised contact list, and terminating the activity related to the particular user.

Supervised contact list for user accounts

A method for selecting a user interface to be provided to one or more users of a social network, the method including steps for receiving edge information, wherein the edge information includes an indication of a number of social networking contacts with which a first user has connected in a social network, receiving frequency information, wherein the frequency information includes a number of times that the first user has interacted with the social network over a time duration and associating the first user with a first segment from among a plurality of segments, based on the edge information and the frequency information. In certain aspects, the method may further include steps for providing the first user with a first user interface, based on the first user's association with the first segment. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.

Classifying social network users

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.

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Austin Chang