Google Inc.

Kelvin Chan

Yiyang Joy Ding

A method is disclosed for presenting media content on a first client computer of client computers that are participating in a collaboration session. The method includes receiving, at the first client computer, the media content from a server, presenting the media content at the first client computer, receiving, at the first client computer, a selection of an option that enables annotations on the media content received from the plurality of client computers for real-time display at each client computer participating in the collaboration session, sending the option to the server to allow annotations on the media content received from the plurality of client computers to be provided at each of the plurality of client computers, receiving, at the first client computer, a first annotation provided by a user of a second client computer and a second annotation provided by a user of a third client computer, and presenting the first and second annotations on the media content at the first client computer, the first and second annotations being presented with identifiers of the second and third client computers respectively.

Managing a sharing of media content among client computers

A method is disclosed for presenting media content on a first client computer of client computers that are participating in a collaboration session. The method including receiving the media content from a server, presenting the media content at the first client computer, receiving a selection of an option that defines how annotations on the media content received from the client computers are to be formatted for real-time display on the media content at the client computers participating in the collaboration session, sending the option to the server to cause any annotations on the media content received from the client computers to be formatted based on the option, receiving, at the first client computer, an annotation formatted by the server based on the option and information received from a second client computer of the client computers, and presenting the formatted annotation on the media content at the first client computer.

Managing a sharing of media content amount client computers

Technology is provided to manage sharing of media content among client computers. In one example, an application server provides at least a portion of the media content to the client computers. The application server receives a requested session event. A session event is an annotation, a comment, or a navigation request. The application server generates a formatted session event by formatting the requested session event at least according at least one option. An option defines how the application server is to modify a session event for display at the client computers. The application server provides the formatted session event to the client computers for display on user interfaces at the client computers. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

A method includes storing two or more documents at a storage system that is associated with a document editing system and receiving usage pattern information regarding each document from the two or more documents. The method also includes determining a likelihood that the two or more documents are related documents based at least in part on the usage pattern information and defining a collection including the two or more documents if the likelihood that the two or more documents are related exceeds a threshold value.

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