Google Inc.

Brynn Marie Evans

Jonathan Terleski

Jan Piotr Jedrzejowicz

Rebecca Gisoo Park Chiou

Pavan Kumar Desikan

Karthik Murili Nagaraj

Dennis Troper

Amar Gandhi

Jean-Christophe Emmanuel Lilot

Michael Nestler

David Gary Besbris

Shimrit Ben-Yair

Dave Carlsson

John Cassidy

Michael Thomas Leotta

Matthew B Levine

Ray Su

Irene Chung

Sophi Newman

Rodrigo Lagos

Christopher Templin Howse

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Technology for managing the flow of messages among accounts of a social network. One method enables a first account (e.g., person or entity account) to elect a second account (e.g., person or entity account) in the social network. The election causes the first account to follow the second account to receive electronic messages of the second account. Further, an election of the first account by the second account is disabled until the first account follows the second account. Additionally, the method includes an operation for detecting the first account has followed the second account and has added the second account to a communication group managed by the first account.

Management of commercial messages in a social network

A system and method for providing or presenting secondary or embedded streams includes a primary stream generator, a secondary stream generator and a user interface engine. The primary stream generator generates the primary stream for the user and is coupled to a content source to extract data and coupled to provide the primary stream. The secondary stream generator generates a secondary stream for the user, is coupled to the content source to retrieve data and is coupled to provide the secondary stream. The user interface engine produces a user interface including a primary stream of content with an embedded secondary stream. The user interface engine is coupled to receive the primary stream from the primary stream generator and the secondary stream from the secondary stream generator. The present disclosure also includes a method for generating a user interface with an embedded stream.

Embedded streams user interface

A system for generating and providing an inline resharing interface and sharing content includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to provide items of content for presentation; receive input identifying a selected item from the items of content; generate an inline sharing interface corresponding to the selected item, the inline sharing interface including a portion of original content from the selected item, an comment area, and an addressee area; and provide the inline sharing interface for presentation in place of the selected item.

Inline resharing

Display screen or portion thereof with a transitional graphical user interface

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing the flow of messages among users of a social network. One method enables the election of an entity in the social network by a person in the social network. The election indicates that the person follows the entity to receive entity electronic messages. Further, an election of the person by the entity is disabled until it is detected that the person has elected to follow the entity. Additionally, the method includes an operation for detecting the election of the entity by the person, where the person is enabled to add the entity to communication groups managed by the person after the election. The entity is enabled to follow the person after the person elects to follow the entity, and messages from the person to communication groups including the entity will reach the entity.

A system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive a stream of content including a plurality of content items; retrieve a plurality of related content items; identify a topic for at least one of the plurality of the related content items; rank the topics by relevance to the user and one of the plurality of items; associate the topic to the content item in the stream of content where the topic is ranked as being relevant to the content item; generate a marker for the topic; generate an interface including the marker associated with the content item in the stream of content; and provide the interface for display.

Presenting related content in a stream of content

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

Computer-implemented methods for generating and providing a post in a social activity stream by using a post framework and a content framework are provided. The post framework provides clear separation of shared content, the posting user's voice, social metadata, comment discussion, and interactive actions. The content framework includes a defined content body. The content body may include content, metadata and user interface control elements to be provided in a user post within a social activity stream. Systems and machine-readable media for providing a post in a social activity stream by using a post framework and/or a content framework are also provided.

Post and content framework for social activity streams

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Brynn Marie Evans