Google Inc.

Daniel Lawrence Morrill

Daniel J Berlin

Christopher James DiBona

Jason S Bayer

Leo Baghdassarian

Eric Vannier

Stuart Teng

Christopher James Dibona

Systems and techniques are disclosed for detecting whether a wearable computing device is worn by a user or not. The detection can be made based on whether the device is secured to a user or based on a sensor. A device worn by a user may be operated in a private mode such that the user wearing the device is provided information that is useful while wearing the device. For example, the user may receive message notifications, news updates, telephone call information, or the like. A wearable computing device maybe operated in a public mode while not being worn by a user. While in the public mode, the device may provide non user specific information such as a current time, media items, or the like.

Wearable device multi-mode system

A client device may install an application. The client device may also maintain a shared set of contact information separate from the application. If the client device determines that, within a fixed time period, the application has read from the shared set of contact information, but has not written a threshold extent of data to the shared set of contact information, the client device may indicate to at least one of the user interface of client device and a server device that the application is exhibiting anomalous behavior. If the server device receives such indications from at least a threshold number of client devices, the server device may instruct the client device to disable or uninstall the application.

Detecting anomalous application access to contact information

A method for rendering one or more user interface objects on a television screen is disclosed. The method is performed at a computer system coupled with the television screen. The method includes receiving a request for rendering a user interface object, and identifying a variable scaling factor. The variable scaling factor is determined in accordance with a distance parameter corresponding to a distance between a respective user and the television screen. The method also includes rendering the user interface object on the television screen in accordance with the variable scaling factor while maintaining a display of a television program on the television screen based on a fixed scaling factor.

Systems and methods for rendering user interface objects in accordance with a variable scaling factor

Various aspects of this disclosure are directed to determining an orientation of a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may include a first microphone-speaker system and a second microphone-speaker system that can each provide microphone and speaker capabilities. The first microphone-speaker system may be enabled to operate as a speaker device. The enabling of the first microphone-speaker system may include allowing the first microphone-speaker system to provide audio output and disallowing the mobile computing device to process audio input received from the first microphone-speaker system. The second microphone-speaker system may be enabled to operate as a microphone. Enabling the second microphone-speaker system may include allowing the mobile computing device to process audio input received from the second microphone-speaker system and disallowing the second microphone-speaker system to provide audio output. Enabling of the first and second microphone-speaker systems may be responsive to and based on the determined orientation.

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Daniel Lawrence Morrill