Google Inc.

Sandeep Mopuru

Yonatan Zunger

Alison Boncha

Balaji Srinivasan

Kavi Harshawat

Zach Yeskel

Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. A method includes receiving user input of a user of a first plurality of users of a first service to transmit an invitation to a second plurality of users to become members of the first service, wherein the first plurality of users are associated with respective online accounts of the first plurality of online accounts, the second plurality of users are specified in the user input and are associated with respective online accounts of a second plurality of online accounts of a second service. The method also includes in response to the user input of the user of the first plurality of users of the first service to transmit the invitation to the second plurality of users to become a member of the first service, determining that a set of usage parameters of a subset of the second plurality of online accounts of the second service do not satisfy one or more activity criteria for becoming a member of the first service, preventing transmission of the invitation to become a member of the first service to a subset of users of the second plurality of users of the second service, wherein the subset of users of the second plurality of users of the second service corresponds to the subset of the second plurality of online accounts of the second service that do not satisfy the one or more activity criteria, and sending the invitation to become a member of the first service to remaining users in the second plurality of users. The method further includes in response to one or more users of the remaining users accepting the invitation to become members of the first service, providing a notification data to inform the user that the one or more users of the remaining users have become members of the first service, and in response to a selection of the notification data by the user, providing a user interface presenting customized operations to be performed by the user with respect to each of the one or more users of the remaining users that have become members of the first service.

Generating notifications based on formation of memberships

Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. One of the methods includes identifying a selection to invite users to become members of a social network and generating prompt data to allow invitations to be sent to the users based on the selection. The method further includes determining whether indications of becoming members of the social network are received from one or more of the users. The method includes transmitting notification data to inform a member that the one or more users have become members of the social network in response to determining that the indications of becoming members are received.

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Sandeep Mopuru