Google Inc.

Jonathan Gordon Sharkey

Gregory Matthew Marra

Benjamin David Eidelson

Jason Prado

Ye-Jeong Kim

Fred Peter Gilbert

Aaron David Kemp

Punit Singh Soni

Sean Liu

Sharvil A Nanavati

Anish Acharya

Jeson Patel

William Christian Ferrell

Sharvil Nanavati

William C Ferrell

Jason B Prado

Sean Yaoxing Liu

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

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

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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Kitchener, Canada

Jonathan Gordon Sharkey