Google Inc.

Jason Briggs Cornwell

Matthew Thomas Austin

Richard Lo

Anton Volkov

Mark Chang

Johnathon Schlemmer

Debbie Kim

Christopher Tompkins

Megan Torkildson

Joy Barlow

James Buyayo

Andrew Ward Moedinger

Jeroen Daniël Jillissen

Keith Jonathan Coleman

Thompson Alexander Ivor Gawley

Koa Metter

Alan Lee Rogers

Itamar Gilad

Richard Yuan-Ching Lo

Justin Russell Uberti

Kevin Courtney Smilak

Deepak Jindal

Gregory R Bullock

Rachel Ilan Simpson

Paul Morell McDonald

Isaac Sterling VanDuyn

Balint Miklos

Andrew James Palay

Annie Chen

Amit Fulay

Aaron Nathaniel Rothman

Douglas Alexander Aberdeen

Stacey Kapadia

Heidi Rafael Sales

Ariel Lauren Rideout

Mayank Singhal

Richard James Treitel

Zohair Hyder

Garrick Toubassi

Minjae Lee

Rob Young

Rebecca Michael

Anna Maria Jansson

Tyler Bahl

David Farber Stern

Steven Henry Bills

Nilesh Singh

Katharina Probst

Maria Khomenko

Brendan Linn

Klaus Martin Kretzschmar

Mark Striebeck

Debra Joy Lauterbach

Jamison Richard Gray

Blaine Billingsley

Yiwen Zhan

Phillip Neal Sharp

Xander Pollock

Jeroen Daniel Jillissen

David Nachum

Thomas Alexander Ivor Gawley

Thompson Alexander-Ivor Gawley

Paul Morrell McDonald

Kevin Smilak

Systems and methods for displaying electronic messages are disclosed. In one aspect, a method is performed at a computing device. The method includes: (1) receiving a plurality of electronic messages; (2) assigning a first subset of the messages to a predefined group category based on a set of content-based clustering rules and content in respective bodies of the messages; (3) concurrently displaying a second subset of the messages and a cluster graphic corresponding to the predefined group category, where the cluster graphic includes a label that describes the predefined group category; (4) while concurrently displaying the second subset of electronic messages and the cluster graphic, receiving user selection of the cluster graphic; and (5) in response, displaying a plurality of messages in the predefined group category, including displaying at least one message from the first subset of messages.

Systems and methods for displaying unseen labels in a clustering in-box environment

Display screen with a graphical user interface

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface for messaging

Configurations for providing a widget that displays participants involved in the conversation thread and provides different graphical elements (e.g., buttons) to initiate one click actions to start a group chat, create a meeting on each participant's calendar, or start a new conversation thread. In the case of the group chat, the subject technology can include the contents of the group chat session as an additional electronic message in the conversation thread. In one example, the widget is implemented as a floating toolbar that can be positioned in the user interface while in the conversation thread view.

Providing contextual information and enabling group communication for participants in a conversation

A system and method for creating, sending, receiving, or displaying messages with smart variable expressive text or graphics is described. The method includes providing a user interface for inputting content and specifying an appearance of the content, receiving the content and an appearance control input via the user interface, responsive to the appearance control input, creating a message including the content and formatting information, and sending the message including the content and the formatting information.

Smart variable expressive text or graphics for electronic communications

Implementations of the present application relate to caller previews for video calls. In some implementations, a method includes sending, by a caller device, a call request to a callee device and determining an identifier associated with the callee device. The method determines whether the identifier is associated with an address book of the caller device, and/or is in an outgoing call record of the caller device. An acknowledgment is received from callee device, and, upon receipt of the acknowledgment, a connection is established with the callee device. Based on determining that the identifier is associated with the address book and/or in the outgoing call record, at least a portion of a caller video is transmitted over the connection with the callee device. The caller video is transmitted prior to receipt of an acceptance of the call request from the callee device.

Caller preview for video calls

Implementations relate to providing animated user identifiers. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes determining that a video call over a communication network is connected between a first device associated with a first user and a second device associated with a second user. The method stores a set of multiple images that are received by the first device as part of the video call, and forms a motion clip including the set of multiple images and indicating a sequence of the set of multiple images for display. The method assigns the motion clip to a user identifier associated with the second user, and causes display of the motion clip to visually represent the second user in response to the user identifier being displayed in at least one user interface on the first device.

Animated user identifiers

Systems and methods for displaying electronic messages are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes, at a computing device, concurrently displaying (i) a user interface object that represents a group of messages and (ii) one or more first indicia of a number of messages that have a predefined display status, in the group of messages while foregoing displaying more than one message of the group of messages. The method also includes receiving a selection of the user interface object; and, in response to receiving the selection of the user interface object, displaying messages in the group of messages. The method further includes, in accordance with displaying the messages in the group of messages, modifying the one or more displayed first indicia of the number of messages, which have the predefined display status, in the group of messages.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Jason Briggs Cornwell