Google Inc.

Sameer Kumar Bansal

Kunal Dinesh Patel

Rachel Lara Been

Brendan Pascoe

David Chiu

Jonas Alon Naimark

Damien Correll

Philippe Cao

Evan Malahy

Kara Gates

Marco Zamarato

Chrisoula Kapelonis

Federico Villa

Joshua Principe

Josef Stephen Burnham

Stephen Scott Tompkins

Robert Hugh Tansley

In general, techniques are described for performing proximity-based output selection. A computing device comprising one or more network interfaces and processing circuitry may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more network interfaces may communicate with one or more available outputs for playing content. The processing circuitry may determine a proximity to the computing device for each of the one or more available outputs, and determine, based on the proximity determined for each of the one or more available outputs relative to every other one of the one or more available outputs, a ranked list of available outputs. The processing circuitry may next interface, with a display, a graphical user interface that includes at least a portion of the ranked list of available outputs.

Proximity based output selection for computing devices

Systems and methods are described that include operations such as detecting a plurality of computing devices configured as a distributed ambient computing system, receiving a request to execute a computing task, obtaining, from the distributed ambient computing system, data representing a device context for at least two of the plurality of devices, generating a combined context corresponding to the distributed ambient computing system, the combined context representing a combination of the device context for the at least two devices, generating and providing at least one decision request based on the computing task and the combined context, receiving a response to the at least one decision request, and triggering execution of the computing task based on the response and the combined context.

Operating system-level assistive features for contextual privacy

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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Sameer Kumar Bansal