Google Inc.

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Guangqiang Zhang

Zhou Bailiang

Yuri Choi

Manuel Frank Martinez

Genqing Wu

Tai-Yi Huang

Zhiwei Guan

Mojun Wang

Bailiang Zhou

A system receives sensor data from computing devices of passengers riding in an autonomous vehicle (AV). Based on the sensor data, the system can determine a position of each of the passengers within the AV. The system determines a next passenger to be picked up by the AV. Based at least in part on the position of each of the passengers within the AV, the system can (i) select a pickup location for the next passenger, and (ii) determine a route for the AV based on the pickup location such that an open seat within the AV is adjacent to the next passenger when the AV arrives at the pickup location for the next passenger. The system can transmit data corresponding to the route to enable the AV to update a current route in order to facilitate a rendezvous with the passenger at the pickup location.

Route coordination and navigation based on user proximity to points of interest

Methods and apparatus directed to utilizing an automated messaging system to initiate and/or adapt a dialog with at least one user, where the dialog occurs via user interface input and output devices of at least one computing device of the user. In some of those implementations, the automated messaging system identifies at least one task associated with the user and initiates the dialog with the user based on identifying the task. The automated messaging system may initiate the dialog to provide the user with additional information related to the task and/or to determine, based on user input provided during the dialog, values for one or more parameters of the task. In some implementations, the automated messaging system may further initiate performance of the task utilizing parameters determined during the dialog.

Automated initiation and adaptation of a dialog with a user via user interface devices of a computing device of the user

To provide synergy between spatial and qualitative information in a single display, a client computing device displays a schematic representation of geographic entities that includes qualitative information about each geographic entity. The geographic entities may be portions of a geographic area which are organized spatially in the schematic. While each geographic entity may have a different size or geometry, the geographic entities are displayed within same sized geographic information cards. The geographic information cards are also traversable by a user through panning from one geographic information card to the next or zooming in and out of different views of the geographic information cards.

System and method for generating a geographic information card map

A network computing system can receive transport requests from user computing devices of requesting users of an on-demand carpool service. The system can further receive sensor data from the user computing devices of each carpool passenger of a vehicle. Based on the sensor data, the system can determine a relative position of each carpool passenger within the vehicle, and based on the relative position of each carpool passenger within the vehicle, the system can transmit route data to a transport provider device of the vehicle to rendezvous with a next carpool passenger at an upcoming pick-up location such that an open seat within the vehicle is adjacent to the next carpool passenger.

Methods and apparatus directed to utilizing an automated messaging system to engage in a dialog with at least one user, via a computing device of the user, to determine a particular service entity for an action. In some implementations, the automated messaging system may generate a plurality of questions and/or other prompts to solicit user interface input from the user(s) for use in determining the particular service entity and/or in determining one or more criteria for the action. Some implementations are further directed to performing one or more computing actions based on the determined service entity and optionally based on one or more criteria for the action determined via user interface input of the dialog.

Automated generation of prompts and analyses of user responses to the prompts to determine an entity for an action and perform one or more computing actions related to the action and the entity

A network system customizes communications and communication channels for delivery to candidate providers registering with the network system. Candidate providers progress through steps of a network registration process by providing input data at the various steps. The network system provides communications to request the input data and facilitate the candidate providers' progress. The network system can use a machine learning model to predict particular types of communications and communication channels (e.g., online messages, phone calls, physical mail, etc.) that are likely to be well-received by candidate providers. Thus, the network system is able to increase the expected number of candidate providers that successfully register to provide services to other users of the network system.

Customized communications for network systems

A method and system for fetching functionalities across various user interfaces and providing, for execution, instructions to invoke a function that is not present at a particular user interface are disclosed. The method implemented in the system can include receiving i) data identifying a first function associated with a first user interface, and ii) instructions for invoking the first function in one or more user interfaces; receiving, from a second user interface, a request for invoking the first function; selecting, using a processor, an instruction configured to invoke the first function in the second user interface; transmitting the instruction to the second user interface; and invoking, using the transmitted instruction, the first function in an application associated with the second user interface.

Method to fetch functionality across applications

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an input method editor receives input in a first writing system and presents input candidates in the first writing system or a second writing system. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving input in a first writing system; presenting the input in the first writing system in a first interface element of an interface as content input; automatically identifying one or more candidates in a second writing system based on the input in the first writing system; and presenting the one or more candidates in the second writing system in a second interface element that is separate from the first interface element.

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Guangqiang Zhang