Google Inc.

Paul Feng

Surojit Chatterjee

Ravi Kumar Jain

Anshul Kothari

Jian Zhou

Terry Van Belle

Yun Huang

Nandita Narasimha Prabhu

Gaurav Bhaya

Robert Stets

Ping Wu

Conrad Wai

Shibani Sanan

Dustin S Jackson

Aastha Gaur

Roberto Scaramuzzi

Deepti Bhatnagar

Michael Rosett

Zachary Russell Bailey

Manzurur Rahman Khan

Manu Lakkur

Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for communicating location-based digital components to a mobile and other devices. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a keyword. A content selector can select digital components based on keyword and request. An audio signal generator component can generate an output signal that includes a selected digital components. An interface can transmit the output signal to cause a client computing device to drive a speaker to generate an acoustic wave corresponding to the output signal prior to occurrence of at least one of the first action and the second action.

Sequence dependent or location based operation processing of protocol based data message transmissions

Systems and methods for providing functional extensions on a landing page of a creative. The method includes identifying, by a data processing system, a creative for serving on a computing device. The creative can be associated with a network address of a landing page. The method also includes generating, by the data processing system, an actionable object, such as a functional extension, to be rendered with content of the landing page and providing, by the data processing system, the actionable object to be rendered with the content of the landing page responsive to an action taken on the creative when served on the computing device. Examples of functional extensions include click-to-call extensions and directions extensions.

Methods and systems for providing functional extensions with a landing page of a creative

Display screen portion with a transitional graphical user interface component

Apparatus and method for transferring promotional messages to a mobile communication device. A promotional message is generated for display on a mobile communication device. The promotional message is associated with an entity having a physical location. The promotional message has a plurality of different types of content each associated with a different distance between the mobile communication device and a physical location of the entity. The generated promotional message is thereafter stored in a memory. A controller selects and transfers the promotional message to the mobile communication device responsive to a detected distance between the mobile communication device and the physical location. The transferred promotional message displays, on the device, a selected one of the different types of content corresponding to the detected distance.

Generating content for promotional messages based on distance

Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for communicating location-based promotional messages to a mobile communication device. The method may include receiving a request associated with a mobile communication device. In response to the request, the method may include determining a location of the mobile communication device and a potential interest of a user of the mobile communication device. Based on the location of the mobile communication device and the potential interest of the user, the method may include identifying a promotional message from among other promotional messages. Upon identification, the method may include communicating the promotional message to be displayed at the mobile communication device.

Predicting promotional message response based on device distance

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distribution of co-sponsored content items. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first bid from a first content distributor and a second bid from a second content distributor, where each of the bids specifying respective amounts that the different content distributors will pay for distribution of respective content. Using the first and the second bid, a total bid is computed for a co-sponsored content item that includes the first content and the second content. A request is received for content to be presented in a presentation slot of a publisher property and the co-sponsored content item is selected for presentation based on the outcome of an auction performed using the total bid as one of a plurality of bids. In turn, data that cause presentation of the co-sponsored content item in the presentation slot of the publisher property are provided.

Co-sponsored content

A three-dimensional taxonomy server is operative to identify the location of a client device based on three-dimensional positional information received from the client device. The three-dimensional positional information may include global positioning system coordinates, an Internet Protocol address, cellular network information, or any other type of three-dimensional positional information. The three-dimensional taxonomy server may operate in conjunction with another server, such as an advertising server or business search server, to deliver contextual content based on the location of the client device. The contextual content may include a targeted advertisement, a targeted search result, or other type of contextual content.

Three-dimensional taxonomy server for identifying a location based on a three-dimensional position of a client device

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Paul Feng