Google Inc.

Rajas Moonka

Manish P Gupta

Oren Eli Zamir

Brian Axe

Gregor Hochmuth

Aitan Weinberg

Brad H Bender

Reuven Lax

Anurag Agarwal

Lin Liao

Poorva Arankalle

Gokul Rajaram

Jill A Huchital

David Young Chung

Brienne M Finger

Nicholas Lee

Mikhail A Dmitriev

Christian Sonntag

Lawrence Jonathan Brunsman

Alan Eneev

Alexei Y Barski

Kuldeep M Gharat

Vadim Furman

Damian John Reeves

Daniel Wesley Dulitz

Sachin Kulkarni

Jochen Mathias Eisinger

Scott Spencer

Steve Okamoto

Karen Padham Taylor

Sean Harvey

Shamim Samadi

Dmitriy Portnov

Susan Wojcicki

Peter C Chane

Prajakta Kalekar

Michael Christopher West

Raghava Hassan Nanjunda Swamy

Satya Patel

Xun Liu

Raghava Hassan Swamy

Oren E Zamir

A computer-implemented method for controlling content distribution includes forwarding information associated with a user to a device operated by the user, the information being configured for use in selecting content from any of multiple content providers for a content distribution to the user. The method includes receiving, in response to the information, an edit of the information forwarded from the device. The edit identifies a first content provider and including a first modification of the content distribution regarding the first content provider. The method includes storing the edit in association with the information such that the first modification is taken into account in the content distribution. The method can be implemented using a computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium.

Controlling content distribution

Techniques for presenting a content item with a media item are described. The techniques include receiving user input indicating a placement preference for a content item to be presented with a media item. The placement preference indicates a presentation preference of the content item relative to presentation of the media item. The placement preference is used to influence selection of a media item with which the content item is to be presented.

Device functionality-based content selection

Merchants create ecommerce-enabled ad units advertising items offered by the merchants. The ad units contain functionality enabling customers to purchase the items by interacting with the ad units. The ad units have associated bid prices that the merchants agree to pay for sales through the ad units. The merchants provide the ad units to a broker. The broker publishes the ad units on web pages provided by publishers as comparison shop ad units that contain multiple ad units and functionality for navigating among them. A customer receiving a web page interacts with an ad unit to purchase the item. During the interactions, the broker dynamically updates the ad unit to conduct the transaction.

Navigable content units for displaying on an electronic document

A system and method are provided for automatically shutting off or reducing power to certain radios in a client device based on collected wireless network quality parameters. The wireless network quality parameters are collected from wireless networks by various client devices in communication with the wireless networks. The client devices report the wireless network quality parameters to a server. The server collects wireless network quality parameters from a plurality of client devices and analyses the wireless network quality parameters from the plurality of client devices to determine a network quality for the particular wireless networks. The network quality is stored in a network quality database maintained by the server. When it is determined that a device is in an area of weak signal coverage, power to its radio is automatically reduced or shut off until the device leaves the area.

Power management by powering off unnecessary radios automatically

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing non-uniform datasets. In one aspect, a method includes receiving multiple different datasets that have non-uniform labeling conventions and that are not organized in a hierarchical structure, organizing the multiple different datasets that are not organized in a hierarchical structure, into a predefined hierarchical taxonomy, including, analyzing text included in the dataset, assigning the dataset to one or more categories within the predefined hierarchical taxonomy based on the analysis of the textual content and one or more other characteristics of the dataset including a number of identification entries included in the dataset, selecting content for display within the content interface at the user device using one or more of the multiple different datasets that were organized into the predefined hierarchical taxonomy, providing, through the user frontend, the selected content for presentation at the user device.

Processing non-uniform datasets

The subject matter of the disclosure is embodied in a method that includes identifying a user-list which is based on owned or permissioned data, wherein the user-list is associated with a corresponding owner database. The method also includes providing an application programming interface (API) configured to communicate with the owner database, and receiving, from the owner database through the API, metadata related to the user-list. The metadata at least includes data describing a category for the user-list. The method further includes storing in a searchable database a user-list identifier corresponding to the user-list and the associated metadata, and providing a user-interface that includes the user-list identifier and the corresponding associated metadata. The user-interface is configured to receive one or more management instructions related to the user-list from a user-list subscriber.

User-list management

A system and method are provided for automatically shutting off or reducing power to certain radios in a client device based on collected wireless network quality parameters. The wireless network quality parameters are collected from wireless networks by various client devices in communication with the wireless networks. The client devices report the wireless network quality parameters to a server. The server collects wireless network quality parameters from a plurality of client devices and analyzes the wireless network quality parameters from the plurality of client devices to determine a network quality for the particular wireless networks. The network quality is stored in a network quality database maintained by the server. When it is determined that a device is in an area of weak signal coverage, power to its radio is automatically reduced or shut off until the device leaves the area.

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San Ramon, CA, United States of America

Rajas Moonka