Google Inc.

Opendoor Labs Inc.

Eric Mayers

David Kosslyn

Molly Castle Nix

Kiley McEvoy

Paul Heider

Renato Verdugo

Shannon Butler

Nicholas Jones

Baljeet Singh

Joshua Abraham Tabak

John Callaway

Douglas T Hudson

Andy Stack

Mark Yoshitake

Zinovy Shkolnikov

Rohit Makhija

Erica Morse

Jung Eun Kim

Matt Wiseman

Luke Stone

Wenyang Dong

Harsha Rajashekar Vashisht

Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan

Connor Alan Jacobsen

Diyu Lei

Bradford Ludwig Bonney

Sheng Wu

Salman Jamali

Cheng Wei Lee

Shrey Gupta

A channel graphical user interface (GUI) of a content sharing platform is provided for presentation to a channel owner. A request is received, via the channel GUI, to enable an online community option that (i) facilitates an online conversation between the channel owner and a subset of viewers of the channel of the channel owner on the content sharing platform, and (ii) allows the channel owner to control viewer responses that are permitted during the online conversation. In response to the request of the channel owner to enable the online community option, the online community option is associated with the channel in a data store, and the channel GUI is modified, the modified channel GUI presenting an online community GUI element representing the online community option. Upon a selection of the online community GUI element representing the online community option by the channel owner, a post creation GUI is provided to allow the channel owner to submit a post to initiate the online conversation between the subset of viewers and the channel owner. In response to a selection of the GUI element representing the online community option by a viewer of the channel in the channel GUI, providing the online community GUI comprising a title and/or a content of the post of the channel owner, and allowing the viewer of the channel to provide a permissible viewer response to the post of the channel owner.

Online engagement platform for video creators

A channel graphical user interface (GUI) of a content sharing platform is provided for presentation to a channel owner. A request is received, via the channel GUI, to enable an online community option that (i) facilitates an online conversation between the channel owner and a subset of viewers of the channel of the channel owner on the content sharing platform, and (ii) allows the channel owner to control viewer responses that are permitted during the online conversation. In response to the request of the channel owner to enable the online community option, the online community option is associated with the channel in a data store, and the channel GUI is modified, the modified channel GUI presenting an online community GUI element representing the online community option. Upon a selection of the online community GUI element representing the online community option by the channel owner, a post creation GUI is provided to allow the channel owner to submit a post to initiate the online conversation between the subset of viewers and the channel owner. In response to a selection of the GUI element representing the online community option by a viewer of the channel in the channel GUI, providing the online community GUI comprising a title and a body of the post of the channel owner, and allowing the viewer of the channel to provide a permissible viewer response to the post of the channel owner.

A method for verifying video statistics of a content hosting platform includes enrolling, by a measurement service, a client device as a panel client device to provide panel reports independent of the content hosting platform, and sending a panel sniffer module to the panel client device. The panel sniffer module to cause the panel client device to send panel reports to the measurement service, and the panel reports include first video statistics of playback of a video by a player executing on the panel client device. The method also includes receiving a panel report from the panel client device and receiving a measurement report from the content hosting platform. The measurement report is generated by the content hosting platform and includes second video statistics of the playback. The method also includes verifying accuracy of the second video statistics by comparing the first video statistics to the second video statistics.

Relaying internet census information

Systems and methods to manage a fleet of home electronic systems are described. The system receives, over a network, event information at a home fleet management system. The event information is received from home electronic systems and includes sensor information. The system aggregates the sensor information according to geographic areas to generate first aggregated sensor information. The system generates first user interface information based on the first aggregated sensor information. The system receives first selection information including a metric identifier and a geographic identifier. The system generates second user interface information based on the first selection information. The system receives second selection information identifying a group of home electronic systems and an action. The system communicates action information to selected home electronic systems based on the action to cause the action to be performed at the selected home electronic systems.

Fleet of home electronic systems

A request of a channel owner is received to enable an online community option to facilitate communications between the channel owner and viewers of a channel of the channel owner on a content sharing platform. The online community option is associated with the channel in a data store, and a channel GUI comprising a GUI element representing the online community option is provided for presentation to the channel owner. An online community GUI is provided to allow the channel owner to submit a post to initiate online conversation with viewers of the channel. The channel GUI is provided for presentation to a viewer of the channel. In response to a selection of the GUI element representing the online community option, the online community GUI comprising the post of the channel owner is provided, and the viewer of the channel is allowed to respond to the post.

A method for sharing revenue generated by a media item. Such a method includes identifying a media item and multiple revenue sharing entries associated with the media item; causing a revenue generated by the media item to be dispersed to multiple entities in accordance with the multiple revenue sharing entries; and presenting the multiple revenue sharing entries.

Specifying sharing entries for accessing performance statistics of a media item

This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate querying a content publisher for their goal(s) in employing a content sharing site and providing customized suggestions, such as recommendations, site tools, site dashboards, and site displays to assist in achieving the goal(s). Additionally, the specified goals are employed in conjunction with monitoring publisher interactions with the content sharing site to learn behaviors that that predict a publisher goal.

Querying publisher goal and customizing suggestions to achieve goal

A computer-implemented method of determining reaction to promotional items includes providing to a mobile device a promotional item associated with a geographic location, determining whether the mobile device is proximate to the geographic location, and charging an advertising account if the mobile device is proximate to the geographic location.

Ad payment for physical presence

A census server provides measurement reports describing clients accessing a specified network-based service to a measurement agency via a network. The census server receives census events from clients used by users via the network. The census events describe usage of a network-based service by the clients. The census server processes the census events to produce measurement reports describing the usage of the network-based service. The processing includes filtering specified information out of the census events to prevent the measurement reports from identifying the users of the clients. The measurement agency may use the measurement reports, for example, to describe how the clients tend to access and use the service.

A method to enhance collaboration by enabling users of a content-sharing platform to identify media items to credit the entities that contributed to the media item. Such a method includes receiving a request for a media item and obtaining credit data associated with the media item. The method further includes providing for presentation the media item and a list of entities contributing to the media item as defined by the credit data and when receiving the request pertaining to an entity from the list, providing for presentation a list of media items that the entity has contributed to.

Identifying credits and aggregating credits into sets

In a method for displaying messages, a system displays messages from a single user account in multiple viewports. Each viewport orders messages based on an importance score that is calculated based on the user's prior interactions with messages in his user account through that viewport. Each viewport associated with the user account orders messages using a distinct message importance model.

Selecting viewports in a messaging application with multiple viewports for presenting messages in different orders

A system and method for generating a plurality of personas for an account of a user is disclosed. The present invention uses an account engine to receive information for the plurality of personas and to associate the information for the plurality of personas to the account. The information for each of the plurality of personas includes a visibility level. A persona engine receives a selection from the user and transmits the selected persona to the user based on the selection. An authority engine determines an appearance of the selected persona based on the visibility level.

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Eric Mayers