Google Inc.

Chad Owen Yoshikawa

Bo Wang

Chris Ramsdale

Pravir Kumar Gupta

Lantian Zheng

Sang Soo Sung

Kevin Yeun

Alfonso Gomez-Jordana

Venkat Kotla

Jae Won Seo

Amit Agarwal

Chris Turkstra

Subbaiah Venkata

Max Ohlendorf

Smita Rai

Abhinav Taneja

Ronald Ho

Philip Charles Nelson

Jae Seo

Mark Edward Stahl

Jeffrey Gordon Ellingson

Mark Stephen Goodman

George Benjamin Michael Van Den Driessche

Thunder Parley

Coordinating processing of audio queries is provided. A system receives a query. The system provides the query to a first digital assistant component and a second digital assistant component for processing. The system receives a first response to the query from the first digital assistant component, and a second response to the query from the second digital assistant component. The first digital assistant component can be authorized to access a database the second digital assistant component is prohibited from accessing. The system determines, based on a ranking decision function, to select the second response to the query from the second digital assistant component. The system provides, responsive to the selection, the second response from the second digital assistant to a computing device.

Coordination of overlapping processing of audio queries

Systems and methods for enabling voice-based interactions with electronic devices can include a data processing system maintaining a plurality of device action data sets and a respective identifier for each device action data set. The data processing system can receive, from an electronic device, an audio signal representing a voice query and an identifier. The data processing system can identify, using the identifier, a device action data set. The data processing system can identify a device action from device action data set based on content of the audio signal. The data processing system can then identify, from the device action dataset, a command associated with the device action and send the command to the for execution device for execution.

Systems and methods for voice-based initiation of custom device actions

Configurations for providing a data feed of contact information updates, deletes, and additions to one or more clients are disclosed. A contact information server can maintain a log including respective log entries of different updates (e.g., in a log structure data store) performed on the contact information. The contact information server orders the log entries using associated timestamps in order to be consistent with the actual order of updates performed on the contact information. For synchronizing contact information, a client will submit a query and supply a timestamp to the contact information server to request the log of updates based on the timestamp (e.g., log entries corresponding to a set of updates since the included timestamp). The server will respond with one or more modifications to the contact information represented as the set of updates in respective log entries.

Global address list

Systems and methods for restricting a scope of a post are provided. In some aspects, a post for a first set of users is received from a first user. An indication of the post is provided to at least a portion of the first set of users. A request to further share the post with a third user is received from a second user within the first set of users. A maximum scope for the post is determined. If the third user is within the maximum scope for the post is determined. The indication of the post is not provided to the third user if the third user is not determined to be within the maximum scope for the post.

Restricting a scope of a post in a social networking service

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Chad Owen Yoshikawa