Google Inc.

X Development LLC

Whatsapp Inc.

Loon LLC

Jun Gong

Othar Hansson

Pravir Kumar Gupta

Ganesh Ramanarayanan

Lev Finkelstein

Tal Cohen

Sagar Kamdar

Fei Ye

Adi Mano

Murali Krishna Viswanathan

Bogdan Dorohonceanu

Zhifeng Sun

Jeff Gilbert

Daphne Dembo

Evan B Roseman

Wanda Wen-hui Hung

Bryan Christopher Horling

Manpreet Singh

Jeremy Hylton

Kumar Mayur Thakur

Salvatore J Candido

Jacob Buswell Roberts

Nundu Janakiram

Robert J Ennals

Yihua Wu

Sheng Zhang

John E Saalweachter

Jonathan David Tang

Vincent Carroll

Wanda Hung

The technology relates to generating a flight map for an aircraft. For instance, this may include, running a plurality of simulations by placing a simulated aircraft within each cell of a grid representing areas of the earth and using predicted wind data. Each simulations identifies a cell in which each aircraft is located at the end of the simulation. A connection graph may be generated using any identified cells. The connection graph may be used to determine a flight map for an actual aircraft using a cost function and iterating from a destination cell to an initial cell. The flight map may be used to determine a route for the actual aircraft. In some examples, the flight map may be refined by running further simulations. The refined flight map may then be used to determine a route for the actual aircraft.

Wind data based flight maps for aircraft

Two (or more) client devices engage in a chat session. Packets associated with the chat session are numbered using a predetermined pattern. When the packets are received, the receiving client device extracts signals from the packet metadata to determine whether the primary cause of packet loss during transit is network congestion or link losses. Based on the extracted signals, the receiving device sends a control message back to the other client device indicating how one or more chat parameters should be updated. On receiving the control message, the other client device updates the chat parameters accordingly.

Using signals extracted from a VOIP data stream to distinguish between network congestion and link losses

A method for matching a ground station to an aerial vehicle for establishment of a backhaul link to an airborne network involves: (i) determining location information for a ground station that is configured to provide a backhaul link to an airborne mesh network, (ii) determining flight data for one or more of the aerial vehicles in the airborne mesh network, (iii) based at least in part on the combination of (a) the location information for the ground station and (b) the flight data for the one or more of the aerial vehicles, selecting a flight with which the ground station should establish a backhaul link to the airborne network, and (iv) generating a link-assignment message that comprises instructions for the ground station to establish a backhaul link between the ground station and an aerial vehicle carrying out the selected flight.

Coordinating backhaul links between ground stations and airborne backhaul network

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering music answer boxes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query, obtaining a plurality of search results responsive to the query, the search results being results from a search of web resources on the Internet, and determining from the plurality of search results that the query is a music query. Music data for a song responsive to the query is obtained, where the music data comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of song content of the song on the Internet. A music answer box is generated for the query, where the music answer box comprises the music data and a link to the URL of the song content, and the music answer box is provided in addition to search results.

Triggering music answer boxes relevant to user search queries

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving a search query from a searching user, in response to the search query matching a trigger query, receiving a first set of authoritative users, processing the first set of authoritative users to define a second set of authoritative users, and transmitting instructions to display data associated with authoritative users of the second set of authoritative users with search results responsive to the search query.

Showing prominent users for information retrieval requests

A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for confirming authorship of documents is presented. A first document hosted on a first website of a first domain is accessed, the first document being linked to a second document through at least one link, and a respective link including a first predefined authorship attribute asserting authorship of a respective document including the respective link by a respective entity associated with a respective target document of the respective link. Authorship of the first document by an entity associated with the second document is conditionally confirmed when the second document includes a second link to the first website of the first domain, the second link including a second predefined authorship attribute indicating that the entity associated with the second document is an author of or contributor to content at the first website of the first domain.

System and method for confirming authorship of documents

Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of actions of receiving a search query from a searching user, determining that the search query corresponds to a trigger query and, in response, providing data associated with the first set of authoritative users for potential display to the searching user, determining a second set of authoritative users based on the first set of authoritative users, for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users, receiving a contact status between the authoritative user and the searching user within a social networking service, and transmitting instructions to display data associated with authoritative users of the second set of authoritative users with search results responsive to the search query, the data including the contact status for each authoritative user in the second set of authoritative users.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for people search results. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a search query, the search query including one or more terms including an individual identifier; identifying search results associated with one or more individuals corresponding to the individual identifier in the search query, the search results identifying resources clustered according to the one or more individuals; presenting one or more search results; receiving user feedback associated with a presented search result; and processing the received feedback to determine whether to modify a cluster associated with the individual.

User feedback in people search clustering

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Jun Gong