Google Inc.

Rani S Manoharan

Emmet J Connolly

Marty Gardner

Konrad Gianno

Stefan H Pharies

Stefan Frank

Alejandro Diaz

Jiri Semecky

Marcin Z Brodziak

In responsive to receiving a user interaction with a map graphical user interface (GUI) of a client device, the system identifies an origin, and determines a map zoom level and map position based on the interaction. The system identifies and ranks candidate destinations for the origin. The system automatically selects destinations from the ranked candidates for inclusion in the map based on the zoom level and the position. Each selected destination for which a destination location indicator would be obscured in the map by an indicator of a higher ranked destination is automatically determined by the system. The system then deselects each destination for which a location indicator has been determined to be obscured by an indicator of a higher ranked destination, forming a revised set of destinations. The system transmits instructions to display a location indicator for each destination in the revised set to the client device.

Graphical user interface to reduce obscured features

In one aspect a machine-implemented method is provided including receiving a request from a user to share content associated with the user with a second user, the content belonging to a specific content space, wherein content belonging to the content space is categorized into two or more content categories by the system, providing a set of system-defined roles associated with the content space to the user for selection, each role being pre-associated with one or more rules defining which of the two or more content categories are accessible by user associated with the role, receiving a selection by the user of a role of the plurality of system-defined roles provided to the user to assign to the second user, associating the role with the second user in response to receiving the selection and providing the second user with access to the content according to the one or more pre-associated rules.

Facilitating role-based sharing of content segments

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a travel query, where the travel query comprises a starting location, a destination location, and a specified transit time; and using the starting location, destination location, and the specified transit time to provide a travel route for traveling from the starting location to the destination location within the specified transit time, wherein the travel route includes one or more points of interest.

Travel routes interface

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Rani S Manoharan