Google Inc.

Debajit Ghosh

David P Singleton

Gabriel Aaron Cohen

David Singleton

Charles Mendis

Paul Westbrook

Subir Jhanb

Alexander Toshev

Kenneth William Shirriff

Garth Conboy

John Rivlin

Xinxing Gu

Cynthia Wong

Sylvie Dieckmann

Matthew William Vaughan-Vail

Wenbiao Li

Greg Don Hartrell

Christopher Salvarani

Jacob Moon

Paul T Westbrook

Greg Hartrell

Karl Blass

Tae Wan An

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving geographical information derived from a non-verbal user action associated with a first computing device. The non-verbal user action implies an interest of a user in a geographic location. The method also includes identifying a grammar associated with the geographic location using the derived geographical information and outputting a grammar indicator for use in selecting the identified grammar for voice recognition processing of vocal input from the user.

Voice recognition grammar selection based on context

Digital graphic novel content is received and features of the graphic novel content are identified. At least one of the identified features includes text. Contextual information corresponding to the feature or features that include text is generated based on the identified features. The contextual information is used to aid translation of the text included in the feature or features that include text.

Automatic translation of digital graphic novels

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

Systems and methods for priority inbox notifications and synchronization are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes, at a computer system, obtaining message information from a server system. The message information represents a set of messages and an importance score associated with each message in the set of messages. The importance score is generated based at least in part on a global importance prediction model and a user importance prediction model. A new mail notification is presented when a determination is made that the set of messages include one or more unread priority messages. The priority messages comprise messages with which the associated importance score satisfy one or more predefined message importance criteria: Optionally, presentation of a new mail notification is foregone when there is a determination that the set of messages do not include any unread priority messages.

Priority inbox notifications and synchronization for messaging application

Apparatus and associated systems, methods, and computer program products relate to displaying the most relevant information in a document at or near the top of a page of displayed information. The most relevant information may be determined to be relevant with respect to a set of search query terms, such as those that may be entered into a search engine, for example. In some embodiments, a selected document of interest may be formatted (i.e., transcoded) for display on a small display area, and the transcoding may be arranged to produce a first displayed page or sub-page (if the document is divided among more than one sub-page) that begins with the most relevant information in the document. By formatting transcoded pages in this manner, the most relevant information may be displayed first for immediate viewing by the user.

Display of relevant results

At a client device with a display and in a method for displaying messages at the client device, the client device receives message information from a server system, the message information representing a set of messages. In accordance with a determination that the set of messages include one or more unread priority messages, where priority messages are messages that satisfy predefined message importance criteria, the device presents a new mail notification. In accordance with a determination that the set of messages do not include any unread priority messages, the device foregoes presenting a new mail notification.

Priority inbox notifications and synchronization for mobile messaging application

A method, computer program product, and system are provided to update geographic location information for an electronic device. The method can include transmitting the geographic location information for the electronic device to a server device at a first time interval. A determination can be made regarding whether the electronic device is in communication with a third-party device. If the electronic device is in communication with the third-party device, then updated geographic location information for the electronic device is transmitted to the server device at a second time interval, where the second time interval is shorter than the first time interval.

Frequency of geographic location updates for an electronic device based on user communication

Geographic location information updates

Apparatus and associated systems, methods, and computer program products relate to identifying types of search query terms based on the location of information that matches the search query terms. The query terms may be assigned weights according to the query type. The assigned weights may be used, in conjunction with a scoring rule, to determine a score that indicates how relevant blocks of information in the selected document are to the search query terms. In one example, query terms that are located in the title or the URL information associated with a document are classified as a query type that is assigned little or no weight. In this way, relevance scoring within a document may be improved by discounting the influence of query terms that are likely to be primarily meaningful for locating (i.e., navigating to) a relevant document, but less meaningful for locating relevant information within a document.

Identifying relevant portions of a document

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Debajit Ghosh