Google Inc.

Cynthia Wong

David P Conway

Kenneth William Shirriff

Debajit Ghosh

A first method includes, at a server, receiving a new message in a message thread, identifying quoted text (e.g., text from a previous message in the message thread) in the new message, replacing the quoted text with a token that includes information uniquely associated with the previous message to produce a modified incoming message, and sending the modified incoming message to a client. Optionally, the token includes information identifying the previous message in the message thread. Optionally, the token identifies a range of text in the previous message, and the text replaced by the token corresponds to the range of text in the previous message identified by the token. Optionally, the token comprises a tag having text to be displayed by the client. In some embodiments, the method includes sending to the client all messages in the message thread, including the modified incoming message.

Efficient conversation transmission to mobile clients

A method of remotely activating a combination of mobile device functions using a network application includes receiving, using the network application at a server, a client command from a client computer and sending an instruction to activate a combination of mobile device functions on the mobile device based on the client command. The method further includes receiving, at the server, information from the mobile device based on the activated combination of mobile device functions and sending client information to the client computer based on the received information from the mobile device.

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Cynthia Wong