Google Inc.

David Singleton

Farhan Shamsi

Yakov Okshtein

Lixin Zhang

Marcus Alexander Foster

Debra Lin Repenning

Xiaohang Wang

Douglas Alexander Gresham

Alan Newberger

Chandrasekhar Thota

Ray Xiaohang Wang

Nicholas Fey

Petra Cross

Andres Morales

Al Cutter

Scott Eblen

John Nicholas Jitkoff

Ant Oztaskent

Yaroslav Volovich

Guang Yu Yang

Johan Schalkwyk

Andrew Robert Kirmse

Emil Constantin Praun

Brian Edmond Brewington

Tushar Udeshi

Dale Kris Hawkins

Pablo Bellver

Keir Banks Mierle

Robert William Hamilton

Bjorn Erik Bringert

Gokay Baris Gultekin

Thomas Carl Stamm

Thomas Weedon Hume

Alastair Tse

James Anthony Guggemos

Debajit Ghosh

Mikkel Crone Köser

Nirav Bipinchandra Mehta

Steve Okamoto

Jussi Petri Myllymaki

Timbo Drayson

Tony Ferreira

Gregory Michael Blevins

Erez Louider

Henry John Holland

Andrew David Walbran

Kenneth Paul Stoltz

William J Byrne

Michael J LeBeau

Steven John Lee

David L Butcher

Raymond Emmett Colline, Ii

Tia Gao

Adam Connors

Martin Hutchinson

Daniel Issen

Peggy Mangot

David Burke

Matthew Lewis

Marcus Alexander Folster

Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.

Configurable point of interest alerts

Providing points of interest to user devices in variable zones

Systems and methods are described herein for supporting loyalty tiers. According to certain aspects, a custom number of loyalty tiers may be specified. Dynamic tier boundaries may be defined for each tier based upon a specified number of loyalty points, a percentile of total loyalty points, or a combination thereof. Periodic recomputing of tier boundary values can support dynamic loyalty tiers. According to certain other aspects, a user loyalty status may include a current tier and a pending tier. User loyalty points may be updated for a current loyalty activity. The updated user loyalty points may be compared with a point boundary for the pending tier and the user may be updated to the pending tier. Transacting the tier update with the server may be bypassed to reduce tier update latency. Also, immediate access at the client to features associated with the updated current tier may be supported.

Customer loyalty tiers with reduced latency state updates

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving user input that defines a search query, and providing the search query to a server system. Information that a search engine system determined was responsive to the search query is received at a computing device. The computing device is identified as in a first state, and a first output mode for audibly outputting at least a portion of the information is selected. The first output mode is selected from a collection of the first output mode and a second output mode. The second output mode is selected in response to the computing device being in a second state and is for visually outputting at least the portion of the information and not audibly outputting the at least portion of the information. At least the portion of information is audibly output.

State-dependent query response

Computer-implemented methods for generating and executing user-based standing queries are provided. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether to generate a notification based on a user-based query and geographical context. The method also includes filtering the notification through explicit or inferred filter criteria. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

Automatic user-based query generation and execution

A geofence management system obtains location data for points of interest. The geofence management system determines, at the option of the user, the location of a user mobile computing device relative to specific points of interest and alerts the user when the user nears the points of interest. The geofence management system, however, determines relationships among the identified points of interest, and associates or 'clusters' the points of interest together based on the determined relationships. Rather than establishing separate geofences for multiple points of interest, and then alerting the user each time the user's mobile device enters each geofence boundary, the geofence management system establishes a single geofence boundary for the associated points of interest. When the user's mobile device enters the clustered geofence boundary, the geofence management system notifies the user device to alert the user of the entrance event. The user then receives the clustered, geofence-based alert.

Clustering geofence-based alerts for mobile devices

The disclosed technology includes switching between a normal or standard-lens UI and a panoramic or wide-angle photography UI responsive to a zoom gesture. In one implementation, a user gesture corresponding to a 'zoom-out' command, when received at a mobile computing device associated with a minimum zoom state, may trigger a switch from a standard lens photo capture UI to a wide-angle photography UI. In another implementation, a user gesture corresponding to a 'zoom-in' command, when received at a mobile computing device associated with a nominal wide-angle state, may trigger a switch from a wide-angle photography UI to a standard lens photo capture UI.

User interface for wide angle photography

A virtual wallet system provides embedded controls to a merchant for association and display with merchant artifacts on a merchant interface. Merchant artifacts may include begin-of-purchase flow items such as coupons, and end-of-purchase flow item such as tickets. When the embedded control displayed on the merchant interface is selected by a user, a save artifact request is communicated to a virtual wallet server allowing the user to instantly save an instance of the merchant artifact to the user's corresponding virtual wallet account.

Saving merchant artifacts to a virtual wallet

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for retrieving points of interest. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a current location of a user's electronic device and retrieving data identifying multiple points of interest within a predetermined distance to the current location. Each point of interest is ranked based at least in part on the point of interest's proximity to the current location. For at least one point of interest, the ranking is further based on one or more updates associated with the point of interest. Each update includes data about the point of interest input by an author (other than the user) into an online social network that includes the user. Based on the ranking, data identifying one or more of the points of interest is provided to the electronic device for presentation to the user on a display.

Point of interest retrieval

Methods, systems, and media for presenting mobile content corresponding to media content are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing information relating to media content is provided, the method comprising: determining a channel that is providing the television program; causing images relating to the television program to be presented, wherein the images are selected based on the channel and a time parameter; receiving a user selection of an image; identifying an entity within the selected image using one or more image recognition techniques; generating a search query based at least in part on the identified entity; obtaining search results responsive to the generated search query; and causing at least one of the search results to be presented to the mobile device in response to receiving the user selection of the image.

Methods, systems, and media for presenting mobile content corresponding to media content

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David Singleton