Google Inc.

Justin Bischoff

Haochen Liu

Kristie Fisher

Sam Cheung

Catherine Hsiao

Saif Khalaf

Matthew Vera

Mingjie Chen

Alexander Izvorski

Devendra Raut

Makarand Dharmapurikar

The disclosed subject matter enables a user to construct a selectable link to invite others to launch directly into a same session of a multi-user application, such as a game or party. The inviting user may construct the link without ever launching the multi-user application. Subsequently, both the inviting and invited users may share the link with others using any conventional form of electronic communication.

Invitation link for launching multi-user applications

Disclosed is an approach for encoding a current video frame that includes labeling points/regions for the current video frame using graphics information for the current video frame, matching the points/regions of the current video frame with points/regions of a previous video frame using the labels for the points/regions of the current video frame and deriving motion vectors for the points/regions of the current video frame.

Label based approach for video encoding

A method for handling user input loss from a client device to a remote server using user datagram protocol (UDP), includes receiving a newly generated user input command at the client device, removing a previously generated user input command located at a front of the ring buffer from the ring buffer, shifting one or more other previously generated user input commands towards the front of the ring buffer, placing the newly generated user input command at an end of a ring buffer, and sending a first ring buffer message containing the one or more other previously generated input commands and the newly generated user input command to the remote server.

Mechanism for handling user input loss that occurs during transmission from a client device to a remote server using ring buffer messages in conjunction with UDP

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Justin Bischoff