Google Inc.

Adobe, Inc.

Michel Ossesia

Anthony Jawad

Greg Hecht

Vincent F Paquet

Marcus Alexander Foster

Kathryn Chapman Cushing

Tomas Lundqvist

Stuart R Blair

Craig Elliott Walker

Jordanna Chord

Stu Blair

Jacob Hesch

Tobias Jungen

A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, a call from a first telephony device using a telephone number associated with a second telephony device and a web-based user account. An indication of the call is received at the computing device where the web-based user account is signed into. An input is received at the computing device to accept the call. A conferencing application session associated with the web-based user account is initiated at the computing device between the first telephony device and the computing device based upon, at least in part, receiving the input to accept the call.

Initiating a video conferencing session

A system and method for generating a conference call within a social network is disclosed. The participants are all members of an affinity group and they communicate with each other using different social streams. When the stream becomes too complicated, a participant transforms the social stream into a conference call so that the discussion is held in real-time. The participant that requests the conference call is designated as a moderator. The moderator controls the conference, including the members of the affinity group, through a user interface. Once the conference is established a notification can be sent to invitees and other members of the affinity group. The notification can also be published on a social network.

Conference calls for social streams

The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes receiving a request to join a conference call from a user, and determining whether the user is allowed to join the conference call based on an access policy configurable by a moderator of the conference call. The method may also include upon determining that the user is allowed to join the conference call, connecting the user to the conference all, determining a set of permissions granted to the user for participating on the conference call based on the access policy, and outputting a user interface to the user or sending a message to another computing device to cause the other computing device to output the user interface to the user, wherein the user interface includes a set of conference call management options based upon the set of permissions granted to the user.

Managed conference calling

In an embodiment, hidden graphical elements in a graphic are detected by generating a first bitmap based on a plurality of graphical elements and a second bitmap based on a first subset of the plurality of graphical elements where the first subset omits a first graphical element of the plurality of elements and includes a second graphical element of the plurality of elements. The first bitmap is then compared with the second bitmap to determine if they match. If they match, the first graphical element is considered to be hidden by the second graphical element.

Detection and preview of graphical elements within a graphic

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Michel Ossesia