Google Inc.

Fred Peter Gilbert

Michael J Lebeau

Sharvil A Nanavati

Gregory Matthew Marra

Benjamin David Eidelson

Jason Prado

Ye-Jeong Kim

Aaron David Kemp

Punit Singh Soni

Jonathan Gordon Sharkey

Michael J LeBeau

Sean Liu

Scott Jenson

Jerry Howard Morrison

Sanjay Gajanan Mavinkurve

Anish Acharya

Casey Ho

Will Dzierson

Andrew Oplinger

Jeson Patel

William Christian Ferrell

Sharvil Nanavati

Jason B Prado

Sean Yaoxing Liu

William C Ferrell

A system and machine-implemented method for differentiating participants in a group conversation within a graphical user interface of an electronic device of a user, via displaying a collection of contact icons on the graphical user interface, each contact icon respectively corresponding to one of a plurality of participants in a group conversation, wherein the group conversation provides for sharing communication messages among the plurality of participants including the user; determining which of the plurality of participants are currently accessing the group conversation; and differentiating, in the graphical user interface, display of the contact icons corresponding to those participants determined to be currently accessing the group conversation from the remaining contact icons.

Graphical user interface display which differentiates among participants in a group conversation

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods systems, and program products for determining a change in a mode of transportation. A change in a mode of transportation of the mobile computing device may be determined by determining that a speed of the mobile computing device has changed. A first geographical location is stored as a geographical location of the mobile computing device that corresponds to the change in mode of transportation. A graphical indication of the first geographical location is displayed. The graphical indication of the first geographical location is different than graphical indications for one or more other geographical locations of the mobile computing device at one or more other times. The one or more other geographical locations were not determined to correspond to a change in mode of transportation.

Determining a geographical location

A system and machine-implemented method for presenting profile information on an electronic device of a user, the profile information being associated with a contact of the user, via displaying a contact icon on a graphical user interface of the electronic device, the contact icon corresponding to a contact of the user; receiving user input which specifies selection of the contact icon; and displaying profile information, obtained from a profile associated with the contact corresponding to the selected contact icon, on the graphical user interface.

Graphical user interface which displays profile information associated with a selected contact

The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for dynamically updating list views. In some implementations, a method for expanding items includes presenting media display including a list of a plurality of items. The presented list includes an expanded view of a first item from the plurality of items at a predefined position in the media content. A request to scroll to a second item from the plurality of items is received. A view of the second item is automatically expanding in response to at least the request. The expanded view of the second item is presented at the predefined position in the media display.

Adjusting list views based on list sorting and item highlighting

A system and method for presenting a group conversation on an electronic device of a user, via displaying, on a graphical user interface of the device, a group of contacts with which the user can communicate, the group of contacts comprising one or more individual contacts and one or more social circles which define a preset collection of contacts associated with one another. User input is received via the graphical user interface, the user input specifying a selection of participants from the group of contacts for a group conversation. The group conversation provides for sharing communication messages among the participants. A conversation window is presented on the graphical user interface. The conversation window displays a collection of contact icons with each contact icon respectively corresponding to one of the selected participants of the group conversation, and a conversation thread with the shared communication messages.

Group conversation between a plurality of participants

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Fred Peter Gilbert