Google Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Matthew Stephen Steiner

Erik Murphy-Chutorian

Alexander Salem Franklin

Todd Christopher Jackson

Andrew Ames Bunner

Edward Shichung Ho

John Pongsajapan

Sean E McBride

Jessica Shih-Lan Cheng

Dave Cohen

Denise Ho

Zachary Yeskel

Kavi Harshawat

Keith Jonathan Coleman

Ajmal Asver

Annie Tsung-I Chen

David Cohen

Shengyang Dai

James A Gallagher

Jeremy David Fein

Anton Lopyrev

Seth Garrett Steinberg Rosenberg

Tianxuan Chen

Evan Gabriel Brooks

Ting Yang

Vivek Kwatra

Kevin Courtney Smilak

Nicholas Butko

Pierre-Luc Bertrand

Neil John Fulwiler

Aravind Krishnaswamy

Matthias Grundmann

Sean Liu

David Foster Lieb

John Patrick Flynn

Maximilian Ibel

Jingyu Cui

Troy Chinen

Pavani Naishadh Diwanji

Vincent Yanton Mo

Jonathan McPhie

Leslie Ikemoto

Shaun Tungseth

Alex M Cook, Iii

Juan Carlos Miguel Anorga

Chandrashekar Raghavan

Florian Kriener

Thomas Kang

Aj Asver

Falk Sticken

Tom Binder

Steven Vandebogart

Nikolaos Trogkanis

Ingo Wehmeyer

Christian Wyglendowski

Vahid Kazemi

John Spiegel

Jonathan David Perlow

Brett Rolston Lider

Vivek Paul Gundotra

Ji Heun Lee

Keith Shoji Kiyohara

Amar Gandhi

Henry Benjamin

Ilya Sukhar

Pooya Karimian

David Gary Besbris

Josh T Wills

Simon Han

Matthew Eric Waddell

Venkatesan Esakki

Isaac David Sparrow

Indrajit Khare

Wayne Crosby

Dobromir Montauk

Amir Fish

Alvin Portillo

Vivian Tan Lum

Christopher Bader-Wechseler

Noam Lovinsky

Bonnie Han

Karen Ouk

Anthony Howard Payne

Tina Chen

Indrijit Khare

Venkat Esakki

William M Biggs

James Gallagher

Indy Khare

Pooya Kariman

Aspects of the subject technology relate to archiving user generated content. A data storage device of a computer system is scanned for media files, and directories of the data storage device containing media files found during the scan are added to an upload directory list. For each directory in the upload directory list, respective identifiers for the media files contained in the directory are determined and sent to a server. Confirmation is received from the server of whether the sent identifiers match identifiers for media files already stored by the server. The media files having identifiers confirmed as not matching identifiers for media files already stored by the server are uploaded.

Automated archiving of user generated media files

Techniques for messaging bots with rich communication are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a message from a client device; and add the message to a message queue; a message queue monitoring component operative to monitor the message queue; detect that the message indicates messaging bot invocation; and submit the message to a bot framework component based on detecting that the message indicates messaging bot invocation; and the bot framework component operative to determine a messaging bot associated with the message; and submit the message to the messaging bot. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for messaging bot rich communication

Techniques for ephemeral message are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a delayed-action worker module operative to wake according to a wake timer; determine a current update object for a delayed-action cursor for a recipient update queue for a messaging system, the delayed-action cursor associated with an action delay for the recipient update queue; determine a delayed-action activity for the current update object; perform the delay-action activity for the current update object; determine a next update object for the delayed-action cursor for the recipient update queue; and determine a next wake timer for the delayed-action worker module based on the action delay and a creation time for the next update object. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for ephemeral messaging with a message queue

Techniques to configure media packages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client support component operative to receive search term information from a client device at a server device; and configure the client device with a selected one or more high-priority media items; a media server search component operative to transmit the search term information to a plurality of media servers; receive a plurality of media items from the plurality of media servers in response to the transmitting of the search term information to the plurality of media servers; and select the one or more high-priority media items from the plurality of media items based on priority weights; and a media item evaluation component operative to assign the priority weights to each of the plurality of media items. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to configure media packages

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatic event recognition and photo clustering. In one aspect, methods include receiving, from a first user, first image data corresponding to a first image, receiving, from a second user, second image data corresponding to a second image, comparing the first image data and the second image data, and determining that the first image and the second image correspond to a coincident event based on the comparing.

Automatic event recognition and cross-user photo clustering

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine that at least one image has been captured using the computing device, wherein one or more individuals are represented in the image. An identity of at least a first individual of the one or more individuals represented in the image is determined, wherein the identity of the first individual is determined, at least in part, using a social networking system. A notification is presented through a display of the computing device, wherein the notification provides an option to send a message including the captured image to the first individual.

Systems and methods for sharing content

Techniques for ephemeral messaging with remote ephemeral mode configuration are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a messaging update at a messaging client on the client device from a messaging system; determine a message thread associated with the messaging update; and determine that the messaging update indicates a transition to an ephemeral mode for the message thread; and a user interface component operative to configure a user interface for the message thread to an ephemeral mode interface based on the transition to the ephemeral mode for the message thread. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for ephemeral messaging with remote ephemeral mode configuration

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A score for each of a plurality of authors of posts submitted to a server system is determined. The score for each individual author in the plurality is based on a score of one or more authors in the plurality that have requested to subscribe to a stream of posts that the individual author submits to the server system. A particular post submitted by a particular author in the plurality is received at the server system and from a computing device. A score is assigned to the particular post based on a score of the particular author. The particular post is transmitted from the server system to computing devices that are associated with authors who have requested to subscribe to posts by the particular author.

Scoring authors of posts

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products. A server system receives from a plurality of computing devices indications that a user of each of the computing devices requested to receive posts that a first user authors. The server system receives from a first computing device a post that was authored by the first user. The post is transmitted from the server system to the plurality of computing devices. A score for the post is determined to satisfy a criteria for transmission to a second user who has not requested to receive posts authored by the first user. The determination uses a distance of the second user to the first user in a social network graph. In response, the post is transmitted from the server system to a second computing device that is associated with the second user.

Recommending posts to non-subscribing users

Implementations generally relate to ranking and selecting images for display from a set of images. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes providing selected images for display, including examining characteristics of a plurality of images, where the examined characteristics include two or more of: visual capture characteristics, visual content characteristics, and social popularity characteristics of the images. The method determines individual scores for the respective examined characteristics of the images, determines overall scores of the images based on a combination of the individual scores for the examined characteristics of the images, and determines a ranking of the images based on the overall scores. The method selects one or more images based on the ranking of the images, and causes a display of the one or more selected images.

Ranking and selecting images for display from a set of images

Implementations generally relate to storing content items. In some implementations, a method includes receiving content items on a mobile device. The method includes storing the content items on local storage on the mobile device. The method includes determining available local storage capacity of the mobile device. The method includes uploading content items to secondary storage, and selecting content items to remove from the local storage or add to the local storage based on predetermined criteria, for example, when the available local storage capacity meets a threshold available local storage capacity.

Storing content items

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Matthew Stephen Steiner