Google Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Christopher Robert Harrelson

Matthew Robert Simpson

Willem Van Lancker

Amanda Marie Leicht Moore

Evan Hardesty Parker

Andrew V Goldberg

Amanda Marie Leicht

Joshua Harrison

Pablo Rademacher

A user interface for rotating imagery among a plurality of canonical views of a geographic area of interest is disclosed. The interface includes at least one rotation control icon for rotating the imagery among a plurality of canonical views of the geographic area, and a direction indicating portion that indicates a compass direction associated with the canonical view presented on the display device. In particular implementations, the interface can be configured to come into view over the imagery whenever a user navigates to a particular view of the imagery where a plurality of canonical views is available. The motion of the navigation control interface appearing into the imagery is intended to draw attention to the control interface to inform the user that additional canonical views are available.

Interface for navigating imagery

Interface for navigation imagery

Portion of a display panel with a graphical user interface for navigating imagery

Portion of a display panel with a transitional graphical user interface for navigating imagery

A system and method provides secondary resource files in response to a request for a web page from a client device. In response to the request, a server provides an HTML file which identifies a secondary resource file, such as a javascript file, and the current version value of the secondary resource. The HTML file may be associated with a header which prevents the file from being cached. If there is no locally-cached version of the secondary resource file, the file is requested from the server. The server will transmit the secondary resource file with a header indicating that the file is to be stored indefinitely. If there is a locally-cached version of the secondary resource file, the client device compares the version value of the locally-cached version to the received current version value. If the values are different, the client requests the differences between the files. The server provides a difference file which the client device uses in conjunction with the locally-cached version of the secondary resource to generate the current version of the secondary resource.

Delta compression of files in web applications

Methods and systems are described for computing shortest paths among a set of locations. A small set of landmarks is chosen and the distance between each location and each landmark is computed and stored. Given source and destination locations, the landmark distances are used to compute lower-bound estimates of distances from locations to the destination. The estimates are then used with a heuristic search to find the shortest path from source to destination.

Efficiently finding shortest paths using landmarks for computing lower-bound distance estimates

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Christopher Robert Harrelson