Google Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Christopher Richard Wren

Nadav Aharony

Daniel George Koulomzin

Geoffrey Allen Borggaard

Daniel Robert Sandler

Gabriel Aaron Cohen

Ali Azarbayejani

Yuri A Ivanov

John Spurlock

Thad Eugene Starner

Fatih M Porikli

Jonathan Terleski

Sami Mohammed Shalabi

Jay E Thornton

Michael Patrick Johnson

Paul H Dietz

Selim Flavio Cinek

Allyson E Tong

Madeleine Denise Mellor

Joshua Marantz

Justin R Barber

Julia Claire Reynolds

Christophe François Chu

Sergey Grabkovsky

Mussie Shore

Alexander Sorokin

Ishwinder Kaur Banga

Ugur M Erdem

David C Minnen

Emmanuel Munguia Tapia

In general, techniques of this disclosure may enable a computing device to defer output of a reengagement type notification until the computing device determines that a user is likely to engage with the application or service that generated the notification, as opposed to ignoring or dismissing the notification and/or the application or service. In this way, by precisely controlling its output, the described techniques may enable a computing device to increase a likelihood that a reengagement notification will succeed in reengaging a user with the application or service associated with the notification.

Outputting reengagement alerts by a computing device

A system and method for associating users with a micro-community that is relevant to an object reference. The object reference is anything that can be perceived either physically or conceptually, such as a location, a document, a calendar entry, a document, a news feed, a biometric key, an image, a news feed, etc. A micro-community engine identifies users who are associated explicitly with the object reference as well as people who would be interested in the object implicitly and associates them with a micro-community. The micro-community engine provides an intuitive and flexible means for communication between members of the micro-community.

Tools for micro-communities

Disclosed are methods and systems for determining distance between two or more mobile devices utilizing a sound emitted from each device such as a chirp. Each device may determine or receive an indication of a time reference for each instance the device emits or detects a chirp. Utilizing the time reference data, the distance between the two or more devices may be determined assuming the sound travels at a constant speed of 340.29 m/s. Techniques for disambiguating orientation of the devices relative to one another rare also disclosed.

Mapping positions of devices using audio

A system and method for retrieving contact information based on image recognition searches is disclosed. A requestor takes a picture of a user or retrieves a storage image of a user and transmits the image to an image recognition module. The image recognition module identifies the user and determines whether the requestor can receive access to the user's contact information based on permission rules. For example, the permission rule includes a requirement that the user and the requestor be sufficiently related on a social graph generated by a social network application. The permission rules can also include a requirement that the requestor have a predetermined proximity to the image. Once the permission rules are satisfied, the image recognition module transmits the user's contact information to the requestor.

Retrieving contact information based on image recognition searches

Implementations generally relate to creating groups in a social network system. In one implementation, a method includes identifying at least one person that is proximate to a target user in a social network system, determining that the target user is generating a pattern; recognizing the at least one person proximate to the target user who is generating the pattern; creating a group in the social network system, and the group includes the at least one person generating the pattern; and associating the group with the target user.

Creating social network groups

A system and method for translating a social feed is disclosed. The system comprises a communication module, a decoding engine and a re-encoding engine. The communication module receives social feed data and a request from a social network application. The social feed data is configured to cause a client to display a social feed in a first language. The request includes data indicating that the social feed should be displayed in a second language. The decoding engine decodes the social feed data to generate decoded social feed data. The re-encoding engine re-encodes the decoded social feed data to cause the client to display the social feed in the second language based at least in part on the request. The communication module sends the translated social feed data to the client.

Feed translation for a social network

A system and method for generating a membership profile for a personalized website is disclosed. An online services provider uses the interest engine to generate a questionnaire and polls. A new user provides responses that include answers to the questionnaire and polls. A profile engine generates a membership profile based on the answers. A newsletter engine generates personalized newsletter information including a number of users that provided each answer. In response to an online services provider selecting the recipients for the newsletter, the newsletter engine either generates the newsletter and transmits it to the recipients or the newsletter engine transmits the contact information to the online services provider.

Generating personalized websites and newsletters

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting ambient audio, generating audio data based on the ambient audio, generating a first audio fingerprint based on the audio data, providing the first audio fingerprint to a fingerprint comparison engine, the fingerprint comparison engine providing a comparison between the first audio fingerprint and a second audio fingerprint, and receiving a proximity signal based on the comparison.

Proximity detection via audio

A data processing device may be operable to determine whether the data processing device is in a state of charging a battery. When the data processing device is determined to be in the state of charging the battery, a charging condition of the battery may be analyzed by the data processing device. The data processing device may analyze a viewability condition at a display module. The data processing device may analyze an environmental condition associated with proximity of a human to the data processing device. The data processing device may then choose, based on a result of the analysis of the charging condition, a result of the analysis of the viewability condition and/or a result of the analysis of the environmental condition, display of content in a manner to attract attention to the data processing device.

Triggering attract mode for devices using viewability conditions and detected proximity of human to device

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Arlington, MA, United States of America

Christopher Richard Wren