Google Inc.

Daniel Lehmann

Gabriel Aaron Cohen

Colin Gibbs

Dmitri Plotnikov

Daisuke Miyakawa

A computer-implemented method includes identifying, with a computer system that has a network interface, one or more primary categories of content from a social networking system that are of primary relevance to a user of a computing device, as compared to one or more secondary categories of content from the social networking system that are of lower importance to the user of the computing device; causing content from the primary categories to be downloaded from the social networking system to the computing device automatically and without user interaction with a social networking application that is arranged to display the downloaded content; and causing content from the secondary categories to be downloaded from the social networking system to the computing device separately from the content from the primary categories, and in response to a defined user interaction with a social networking application that corresponds to the social networking system.

Prioritized download of social network content

Disclosed are a method, apparatus, and system for using call activity as a basis to trigger social-network expansion. Upon detecting threshold call activity between a first party and a second party and determining that a social-network group of the first party does not include a social-network connection with the second party, a process is triggered to add to the first party's social-network group a connection with the second party.

Method and system for use of call activity to trigger social-network expansion

A method and apparatus for providing destination-address suggestions for a new communication. For each of various communication addresses, multiple counts of use of the communication address are maintained, with each count being for a respective type of communication and/or for a respective application class. When a new communication of a particular type or by an application of a particular class is being established, the communication addresses are presented as destination-address suggestions in a rank-order based on the counts specific to the communication type and/or application class. The rank-ordering of can also take into account other factors, such as source persona, time, and location, for instance.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Daniel Lehmann