Google Inc.

Michael Noth

Erik Kay

Jessica Lynn Gray

Aaron Boodman

James Kason Keiger

Lei Zheng

Vanessa Fox

Siyang Xie

Chee Heng Chew

Matthew D Cutts

David Michael Proudfoot

Rahul Roy-Chowdhury

Maxmilian Ibel

Andrey Yuryevich Stroilov

Narayanan Shivakumar

Alexandra Levich

Zhenhai Lin

Carlos Valdivia

Qian Huang

Grace Kwak

Ekta H Manaktala

Qinming Fang

A computer-implemented method includes providing an online marketplace to developers of web applications that may be downloaded from the marketplace to a client computing device for execution by a browser executing on the client device and receiving a request from a party to the marketplace to list a proposed web application for sale in the marketplace. One or more processors of a computer system automatically determine the permissions requested by the proposed web application and automatically determine if the permissions match one or more predetermined permissions. If the permissions match one or more predetermined permissions, then the proposed application is flagged for a manual vetting process before listing the proposed application in the marketplace, and if they do not match, then the proposed application is listed in the marketplace without manual review of the application.

Automatic vetting of web applications to be listed in a marketplace for web applications

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for application lifecycle management. The method includes receiving crash reports from a first version of an application at multiple initial computing devices. The first version of the application is from a first group of versions. The method further includes determining that the crash reports include more than a threshold amount of crash reports. The method further includes determining that a second version of the application from a second group of versions corrects a cause of the crash reports. The method further includes providing instructions to the initial computing devices to retrieve updates to the application from the second group of versions rather than the first group of versions.

Managing groups of application versions

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for application lifecycle management including providing a first application version to initial computing devices. The method includes receiving first crash reports from the first application version. The method includes determining that the first crash reports include more than a first threshold of reports. The method includes preventing provision of the first application version to additional computing devices in response to determining that the first crash reports include more than the first threshold of reports. The method includes receiving second crash reports from the first application version. The method includes determining that the second crash reports include less than a second threshold of reports. The method includes providing the first application version to the additional computing devices in response to determining that the second crash reports include less than the second threshold of reports.

Application version deployment using crash reports

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for identifying causes of application crashes. The method includes receiving crash reports from multiple computing devices resulting from a problem that occurs in an application in operation at the computing devices. The crash reports include sets of properties that describe system states of the computing devices where the problem occurred. The method further includes identifying similarities between one or more properties in the sets of properties from the crash reports. The method further includes identifying differences between one or more properties in the sets of properties from the crash reports. The method further includes identifying one or more candidates for a cause of the problem in the application based on a clustering of the similarities and the differences. The method further includes generating a report that includes the one or more candidates.

Identifying causes of application crashes

According to one general aspect, a method of presenting to a user a subset of applications that may be executed by a computing device is described. The subset of applications may be selected from a plurality of applications available an online marketplace for such applications. The method may include ranking the applications based on signals relevant to the relative desirability to the user of different applications, wherein at least one of the signals is based on information that is generated outside of the marketplace. The method may further include selecting the subset of applications based on their respective rankings. The method may also include presenting the selected subset to the user.

Ranking of digital goods in a marketplace

An online marketplace is provided to merchants of digital goods that may be downloaded from the marketplace to a client computing device for execution. A request is received from a party to the marketplace to list a digital good for sale in the marketplace. A primary price for the digital good is received. An opt-in service is offered that includes determining one or more derivative prices associated with the digital good, collecting the one or more derivative prices from a buyer of the digital good, and paying an amount based on the one or more derivative prices to the party to the marketplace. An incentive is provided to the party to accept the offer. After acceptance of the offer by the party, the derivative prices associated with the digital good are determined, the derivative prices are collected from a buyer of the digital good, and the amount based on the one or more derivative prices is paid to the party to the marketplace.

Incentivizing behavior to address pricing, tax, and currency issues in an online marketplace for digital goods

A website may have a number of owners. According to certain embodiments, site owner-information of current owners of the website is provided to a user to enable the user to re-verify the current owners of the website.

System and method for verifying and revoking ownership rights with respect to a website in a website indexing system

The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for crash reporting for resource-constrained devices. The method includes a step for accessing one or more rules for crash data management upon an application crash on a resource-constrained device. The one or more accessed rules take into account at least one resource constraint of the resource-constrained device. The method also includes a step for collecting crash data and communicating the crash data to a crash report management system. Either or both the collecting or the communicating of the crash data is based on the one or more accessed rules.

Collecting application crashes on resource-constrained devices

When a website has a number of equivalent domain names including a preferred domain name, the locator for a document in the website can be rewritten using the preferred domain name before indexing the document, according to certain embodiments. According to certain embodiments, a user interface is provided to allow a user to specify the preferred domain name for a website for which the user is a verified owner.

System and method for managing multiple domain names for a website in a website indexing system

When a website has a number of equivalent domain names including a preferred domain name, the URL for a document in the website can be rewritten using the preferred domain name before indexing the document, according to certain embodiments. According to certain embodiments, a user interface is provided to allow a user to specify the preferred domain name for a website for which the user is a verified owner.

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

Michael Noth