Google Inc.

Tivo Solutions Inc.

Tivo Corporation

Richard Eugene Fulcher

Benjamin David Eidelson

Randall Sarafa

Peter Ng

Mayur Kamat

Margret B Schmidt

Michael D Dodd

David E Pope

Gabriel Aaron Cohen

Peter Michal Pawlowski

Ujjwal Singh

Paul Westbrook

Kathryn Chapman Cushing

Param Reddappagari

Evan Stephen Millar

Andrew Flynn

Shrikrishna Vijaykumar Borde

Gülay Birand

Ivan Bertona

Rhett Robinson

John Nicholas Jitkoff

Jonathan David Lee

Daniel Marc Gatan Shiplacoff

Matias Gonzalo Duarte

Jeremy Godfrey Lyon

Wei Huang

Simon Arscott

Adam William Powell

Attila Bodis

Evan Miller

A method and apparatus for displaying branded video tags. An advertiser provides additional content associated with broadcast advertising content to a service provider that downloads the additional content to a digital video recorder (DVR). The service provider inserts command tags into the content that are intercepted by the DVR and interpreted as commands that instruct the DVR to perform specific actions when the DVR receives the stream from a broadcaster. The DVR intercepts and translates any tags inserted into the content stream while the DVR is playing the content stream. Tags can cause the DVR to display a branded video tag to the user which is a displayed icon that requests an interaction by the user and has an advertiser's logo(s) displayed in its vicinity.

Method and apparatus for displaying branded video tags

Systems, methods and computer readable media for live interactions in persistent conversations are described. In some implementations, a method can include receiving a communication message sent from a first user to a second user, wherein the communication message includes initiation of a live interaction. The method can also include generating a live interaction user interface element for display as part of a persistent conversation interface. The method can further include storing a representation of the live interaction in a conversation content section of a persistent conversation object when the live interaction ends. The method can include updating conversation state information of the persistent conversation object to reflect the receiving of the communication message and the storing of the representation.

Live interaction in persistent conversations

Systems, methods and computer readable media for persistent conversations are described. In some implementations, a method can include receiving a communication message sent from a first user to at least one other user, and generating a persistent conversation object having a conversation content section and conversation state information. The method can also include storing the communication message in the conversation content section of the persistent conversation object, and forwarding the communication message to the at least one other user. The method can further include updating the conversation state information to reflect the receiving, storing and forwarding of the communication message.

Persistent conversations

Display screen with a graphical user interface

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Techniques are described for sharing service management on a computing system. The computing system includes a display device and one or more processors. The processors are configured to determine, based on a context associated with an object, a plurality of weighted probabilities including a respective weighted probability for each sharing service from a plurality of sharing services, wherein the context includes at least one of a characteristic of the object and a respective characteristic of at least a portion of sharing services from the plurality of sharing services, select, based on the respective weighted probabilities, a subset of sharing services, output, for display at the display device, an indication of each sharing service from the subset of sharing services, receive an indication of a user input corresponding to a selection of one of the subset of sharing services, and transmit, using the selected sharing service, an indication of the object.

Sharing service management

A method, computer program product, and system are provided for defining a touch gesture on a touch sensing device. The method can include receiving a touch gesture at the touch sensing device, determining that the touch gesture is not associated with any operations, and providing an indication of one or more operations the touch sensing device can perform in response to the touch gesture. The method can also include receiving a selection of an operation, and associating the touch gesture with the selected operation.

Restricted carousel with built-in gesture customization

Methods, systems, and computer-program products for displaying a message header on a client device are provided. An exemplary method for displaying a message header on a client device includes receiving a message on an electronic device and identifying a message header associated with the message. The exemplary method also includes, on a display of the electronic device, displaying a snapped header at a given location and at, least a portion of the message header when any portion of the message is also shown on the display. The exemplary method further includes changing a position of the message on the display while maintaining the display of the snapped header at the given location.

Snapping message header

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for overlaying information related to a text message onto a video. In one example, a method includes receiving communication data at a first computing device that is sent from a second computing device while the first and second computing devices are engaged in a real-time video communication, wherein the communication data comprises video data. The method also includes displaying the video data on a display of the first computing device and receiving a text-based message at the first computing device that is sent from the second computing device during the real-time video communication. The method further includes overlaying information related to the text-based message onto the video data displayed on the display of the first computing device.

Text chat overlay for video chat

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Richard Eugene Fulcher