Google Inc.

Bea Systems, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oracle International Corporation

David Bau

Roderick Adonis Chavez

Gary Steven Burd

Adam Bosworth

Kyle W Marvin

Jonathan David Perlow

Erik B Christensen

Anders Hejlsberg

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Michael M Magruder

Raja Krishnaswamy

Brian LaMacchia

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

David S Ebbo

Julie D Bennett

Travis Muhlestein

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

James S Miller

Jonathan C Hawkins

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Brian M Grunkemeyer

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Christopher L Anderson

Shawn Patrick Burke

Yung-Shin Lin

Loren Kohnfelder

Anthony J Moore

Erik B Olson

Yann Christensen

Scott A Safier

Jeffrey M Cooperstein

Fabio A Yeon

James H Hogg

Craig T Sinclair

Corina Eva Feuerstein

Adam Wade Smith

Shajan Dasan

David S Mortenson

Caleb L Doise

Alan Geoffrey Boshier

Manish S Prabhu

Radu Rares Palanca

John I McConnell

Tarun Anand

Gunes Erkan

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Joseph L Roxe

Ramasamy Krishnaswamy

Hany E Ramadan

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Joe Dennis Long

Osman Ahmed Osman

Daniel Takacs

Kenneth Eric Vasilik

Ching Yu Conrad Lo

Jayanth V Rajan

Gregory Darrell Fee

David Owen Driver

Lena Elizabeth Cardell

Donald O Tanguay, Jr

Timothy R Schoen

Christine Soriano

Francis Carr

Nikhil Shivaji Thorat

Timothy E Denehy

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Stephen James Millet

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Nikhil Kothari

Scott David Guthrie

Luca Bolognese

Keith W Ballinger

Brian Keith Pepin

Mark T Anders

Jun Fang

David Lawrence Remy

Susan M Warren

Robert Michael Howard

Nicholas M Kramer

Manu Vasandani

Chad W Royal

Mark W Fussell

Mark A Boulter

Reza Behforooz

Sreeram Nivarthi

Omri Gazitt

Nithyalakshmi Sampathkumar

Neetu Rajpal

Daniel Dedu-Constantin

Blaine J Dockter

David Read

William A Adams

Mark P Ashton

Subhag P Oak

George D Fee

Cezar Christian Andrei

Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing image content items. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a set of search query suggestions, each search query suggestion being based on the search query and different from the search query; receiving data identifying a respective set of resources determined to be responsive to the search query; for each search query suggestion: receiving data identifying resources determined to be responsive to the search query suggestion and determining if the respective set of resources determined to be responsive to the search query suggestion meets an overlap threshold; for only each search query suggestion for which the respective set of resources is not determined to meet the overlap threshold: selecting a subset of resources of the respective set of resources determined to be responsive to the search query suggestion as a representative resource set and generating data depicting the representative resource set.

Search suggestion and display environment

In one embodiment, a method for maintaining real-time communications of a user includes receiving a user's real-time communications of different types over a network, presenting the real-time communications in an email inbox of the user in a uniform manner, and allowing the user to search contents of the real-time communications presented in the email inbox.

Method and system for storing real-time communications in an email inbox

Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing image content items. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a set of search query suggestions for a query, each search query suggestion being based on the search query; for each search query suggestion, receiving data identifying a respective set of resources determined to be responsive to the search query suggestion; for each respective set of resources, generating a representative resource set depicting a subset of the respective set of resources; providing to the user device, in response the search query, a search results page resource including instructions that cause the user device to render a search results page that includes: a set of search results that identify resources that are determined to be responsive to the search query; for each search query suggestion, a search query suggestion grouping including: data describing the search query suggestion, and data depicting the representative resource set.

Methods and systems for presenting instant messaging contacts are provided. At a computing device having one or more processors that execute one or more programs stored in memory of the computing device there is obtained, from a first electronic device, a first online status of an instant messaging contact. The instant messaging contact is logged-in, at the first electronic device, with respect to an instant message application. Further there is obtained a second online status of the instant messaging contact from a second electronic device. The instant messaging contact is also logged-in, at the second electronic device, with respect to the instant message application. There is determined, with respect to the instant messaging application, an overall online status for the instant messaging contact using the first online status and the second online status.

Presenting instant messages

Methods and systems for presenting instant messaging contacts are provided in which a plurality of contacts associated with a user are identified. They are formatted for display, in a display region within an instant messaging application. Responsive to a display adjustment to the display region, a contact in the plurality of contacts is identified in accordance with interactions between the user and the contact. Then, automatically, without user intervention, display of the contact within the instant messaging application is terminated.

Systems, computer program products, apparatus, and methods are described that perform operations including receiving a search query that includes a name, receiving multiple resources that have been identified by a search engine as best satisfying the search query, wherein the identified multiple resources include a resource including a plurality of images. The operations include identifying an image of the plurality of images displaying a face of the person. The image is identified based on a description associated with the image. The description is based at least in part on one or more resources included in the search results. The operations further include providing the identified image with the search results. The search results are provided as a plurality of links. Each link identifies a corresponding resource of the identified plurality of resources.

Providing images of named resources in response to a search query

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for finding person names in electronic resources. In one embodiment, a search query is received. Electronic resources are identified satisfying the search query. A plurality of person names is identified in the resources, wherein each person name is associated with at least one of the resources. A subset of person names is selected from the plurality of person names based on a predetermined metric configured to identify a relative importance of at least one of the person name or resource. A listing of the subset of person names adapted for presentation on a user interface is generated. In certain aspects, multiple person identities can be identified as being associated with person names in the listing. The listing can include resources associated with one of the person identities corresponding to a particular person name in the listing.

Context-based person search

Methods and systems of presenting a quick list of contacts to an instant messaging user are disclosed. A set of contacts is identified. From the set of contacts, a first subset is selected based on first predefined criteria and a second subset is selected from second predefined criteria. The first and second predefined criteria may include contact interaction criteria, user activity criteria, and connectedness criteria. From the first and second subsets, one or more lists of contacts are generated. The one or more lists may be displayed in a display region of an instant messaging application.

Presenting quick list of contacts to communication application user

Presence subscriptions for messaging services are managed by automatically subscribing contacts to a user's contact lists based one or more rules, subscription states and contact types. In some embodiments, presence subscriptions are managed by: identifying a set of contacts with respect to an identified user; applying subscription rules to the contacts; selecting a subset of contacts based on one or more subscription rules; and automatically establishing presence subscriptions for the subset of contacts.

Managing presence subscriptions for messaging services

A method and system are provided to permit subscribers to a service to engage in real time communications with users who are not subscribers to the service. The method comprises receiving, from a non-subscriber to a service, a request for real time communications with a subscriber to the service and providing real time communications between the subscriber and the non-subscriber.

Method and system for anonymous login for real time communications

A method of triggering a hover event for a pointer in a user interface on a display device begins by predicting a future position of the pointer on the user interface. A likelihood that the pointer will hover over a screen object is determined based on the predicting. Finally, a hover event for the screen object is triggered based on the determined likelihood that the pointer will hover over the screen object.

Predictive hover triggering

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David Bau