Google Inc.

Niantic, Inc.

Dennis Hwang

Tatsuo Nomura

Edward Wu

Naoyuki Ishitsuka

David Hollin

Kevin Doo

Calin Matney

Huy M Nguyen

Andrew Timothy Szybalski

Stephen Chau

Andrea Lynn Frome

Derek King Prothro

Jerry Howard Morrison

Stephane Lafon

Leif Hendrik Wilden

Ioannis Tsoukalidis

Kansinee Adsanatham

Paul Anthony Martini

A shared virtual experience is provided to players of a location-based game. The virtual location of a player in the game is based on the real world location of the player's client device. If a player's location in the game is within an interaction distance of a virtual element, in indication that a shared virtual experience is available may be provided. Player input is received requesting participation in the shared virtual experience and the player is added to a lobby including a specified start time. At the specified time, the shared virtual experience begins and includes interaction with other players who were in the lobby. An update to game data is sent based on an outcome of the shared virtual experience.

Providing a shared virtual experience in a location-based game

Disclosed herein is an 'activity assistant' and an 'activity assistant user interface' that provides users with dynamically-selected &#x201c;activities&#x201d; that are intelligently tailored to the user's world. For example, a graphical UI includes selectable context elements, each of which corresponds to a user-attribute whose value provides a signal to the activity assistant. In response to selecting a parameter associated with at least one of the selectable context elements, a first signal is generated and provided to the activity assistant. In response to providing the signal, one or more activities are populated and ordered based, at least in part, on the signal, and subsequently displayed. The parameters may include a current mood of a user, a current location of the user, associations with other users, and a time during which the user desires to carry out the activity in some examples.

Providing user-defined parameters to an activity assistant

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for displaying scrollable notifications for unlocking an electronic device. The method includes a step for receiving a notification from an application for display on a locked screen of an electronic device, wherein the notification includes content viewable by a user of the electronic device, wherein the content is scrollable. The method also includes a step for displaying the received notification. The method also includes a step for receiving, from the user, a scroll event associated with the displayed notification. The method also includes a step for scrolling, in response to the received scroll event, content in the notification, wherein the scrolling provides additional content viewable to the user. The method also includes a step for unlocking, in response to the scrolling, one or more capabilities of the electronic device.

Scrollable notifications

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