Google Inc.

Cory Mitchell O'Connor

Vishwanath Tumkur Ramarao

Parag Avinash Namjoshi

Mark Risher

Naveen Jamal

Youngnam Maeng

Tejaswi Nadahalli

Sonal Rajan

Leo Baghdassarian

Sailesh Nepal

Dmitri Plotnikov

Austin Quaid Walker

Yehuda Arie Koren

Bryan David Cassell

Kalyan Ganapathisubramanian

Matt Sheets

This application is directed to presenting a unified user interface on a network-connected television device. The unified user interface displays media content recommendations selected and organized based on knowledge of a user (e.g., search queries, search results, watch history, purchase history, physical activities). The unified user interface also includes a focus area for displaying a series of media content items (e.g., an advertisement) sequentially according to a temporal order for the purposes of promoting a media content item, product, event or service. In some implementations, playback of a media content item presented on the unified user interface relies on a collaborative implementation of a corresponding media player application and a media content casting application, particularly when the play involves a restricted mode. The content casting application is enabled to play the media content item at the restrict mode when the media player application does not operate in the restricted mode.

Network-connected television devices with knowledge-based media content recommendations and unified user interfaces

The problem of abuse of privileges at cloud-hosted service sites is addressed by connecting a single individual or 'actor' with multiple user accounts and/or other online identities, thereby creating a 'consolidated profile.' In this way a confidence level can be established that a particular user account, IP address or other identifying attribute is associated with a particular actor. Different confidence levels may suffice depending on the remediary action to be taken; for example, holding a message for human review is obviously less draconian than rejecting the actor's registration at sign-up, and would therefore require a lower degree of confidence.

Detection and prevention of unwanted content on cloud-hosted services

The problem of abuse of privileges at cloud-hosted service sites is addressed by associating each user, preferably across multiple cloud-hosted service sites, with an individual 'suspiciousness' score that may vary over time as additional user actions are detected and evaluated. Knowledge of the user is employed to better analyze the appropriateness or acceptability of user actions on the site.

The problem of abuse of privileges at cloud-hosted service sites is addressed at the sign-up stage by identifying suspicious or abusive users and preventing them from signing up in the first place. This approach may utilize a relatively small initial data set based on the recognition that while abusers' profiles are mutable and difficult to characterize stably&#x2014;abusers will deliberately shift their usage patterns to evade detection&#x2014;a site's legitimate users tend to have similar and stable characteristics; that is, such characteristics are 'cohesive' across cloud-hosted service (e.g., social media) sites and their users. The information gleaned from analysis of this small data set can be applied to a much larger, unsorted data set to obtain profiling criteria based on a large population for statistical reliability.

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Cory Mitchell O'Connor