Google Inc.

Linkedin Corporation

Kurt Wilms

Bryce Gibson Reid

Andrea Zvinakis

Matthew Turner Smith

R Kevin Rose

Vincent Simonet

Clement Courbet

Elliott White, Iii

Amit Ghorawat

Garen Checkley

Elliott White

Anish Kattukaran

Lingxian Ding

Techniques for initiating download of content are provided, including receiving, by one or more processors of the mobile computing device, an indication of a selection, made by a user of the mobile computing device, associated with third-party content provided by a proximate media player device; identifying, by the one or more processors of the mobile computing device, an indication of downloadable content associated with the third-party content displayed by the media player device; and downloading, by the one or more processors of the mobile computing device, in response to receiving the indication that the user selected the icon and without further input from the user, the downloadable content to a memory of the mobile computing device.

Interactive user content provided via multiple user devices

A video item is provided for playback at a media player executing at a user device. The media player is logically divided into multiple sections. An indication of a touch gesture made by a user with respect to a touchscreen of the user device is received. Whether the touch gesture with respect to the touchscreen of the user device qualifies as a first predetermined touch gesture is determined. The first predetermined touch gesture is within a portion of a user interface (UI) that is includes in a first section of the media player. Responsive to determining the touch gesture with respect to the touchscreen of the user device qualifies as the first predetermined gesture, the playback of the video item is moved from a first point in time to a second point in time by a predetermined amount of time.

Touch gesture control of video playback

A method of touch gesture control of video playback is discloses. The method includes providing a video item for playback The method also receives an indication of a touch gesture made by a user of mobile user device. The method further determines whether the touch gesture is a swipe gesture within a portion of a user interface (UI) including a media player to play the video item. The method also moves the playback of the video item from a first point in time to a second point in time by a predetermined amount of time in response to determining the touch gesture is the swipe gesture within the portion of the UI comprising the media player.

Implementations are disclosed for scoring and categorizing a video channel. A method includes identifying a first group of multimedia content items arranged in a sequential order by a curator to be played by a plurality of user devices in the sequential order; receiving category identifiers associated with a plurality of multimedia content items in the first group; and generating, for the first group, a first category score corresponding to a first category and a second category score corresponding to a second category.

Video channel categorization schema

A system and method for streaming video with dynamic user features enable content distribution systems to increase a user's total watch time. Automated playback and pause modes are disclosed that allow a user to select a preferred playback mode and have that mode persist across sessions and application launches.

Computer system and method for streaming video with dynamic user features

Implementations are disclosed for scoring and categorizing a video channel. A method includes receiving category identifiers associated with a plurality of videos in a video channel. The plurality of videos is associated with a plurality of categories specified by the category identifiers. The method further includes receiving ratings of each of the plurality of videos in the video channel. The ratings are based on video use within the video channel. The method further includes generating one or more scores of the video channel in view of the category identifiers and the ratings. Each of the one or more scores is indicative of relevance of the video channel to a respective category specified by the category identifiers.

A system and method for streaming video with dynamic user features enable content distribution systems to increase a user's total watch time. A user behavior server proposes additional watch recommendations to a user in response to detecting certain user behavior. Autoplay and autoscroll functionality is provided that permits a user to browse a video feed during playback of selected content. Global play and pause modes are disclosed that allow a user to select a preferred playback mode and have that mode persist across session and application launches.

Detecting, for a content item, associated preference events is disclosed. For the content item, a plurality of preference events from a plurality of users is received. The received preference events are accumulated. Associated events are detected. The effect of the events is reduced when assigning a status to the item.

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Kurt Wilms