Google Inc.

Sean Liu

Doug Sherrets

Benjamin David Eidelson

Jason Prado

Gregory Matthew Marra

Brett Rolston Lider

Frances Bordwell Haugen

Rita Chen

Emily Kay Moxley

Jason Matthew Toff

Sagar Kamdar

Karen Kavett

Raj Krishnan

Matthew Stephen Steiner

David Cohen

Marco Paglia

Kumar Mayur Thakur

Pavani Naishadh Diwanji

Jonathan McPhie

Andrew Theodore Wansley

Ye-Jeong Kim

Alex M Cook, Iii

David Yen

Gunes Erkan

Max Ventilla

Fred Peter Gilbert

Punit Singh Soni

Aaron David Kemp

Yihua Wu

Jonathan Gordon Sharkey

Jack Wright Menzel

Anish Acharya

Sharvil A Nanavati

Yiyang Joy Ding

Nikhyl P Singhal

Subramaniam Ganapathy

Sara Lee Su

Yosi Markovich

Murali Krishna Viswanathan

Rishi Khaitan

William Christian Ferrell

Andrew Hyatt

Saksiri Tanphaichitr

Sanghoon Cha

Sabrina Chueh Ellis

Sharvil Nanavati

Jin Zhou

Abigail Jones

Anthony S Hyatt

A method includes collecting user activity data for a first online media item. The user activity data can be data for a user consuming the first online media item. The method further includes segmenting a second online media item into a plurality of segments, and identifying one or more of the plurality of segments with user activity data satisfying one or more criteria. The identified segments comprise a set of frames of the plurality of frames of the second online media item. The method further includes selecting a frame from the set of frames from the second online media item. The method further includes sending a recommendation of the selected frame as a thumbnail recommendation for the second online media item to a client device.

Image recommendations for thumbnails for online media items based on user activity

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for generating location-based playlists. The disclosed method includes providing a music service for generating playlists for a location, identifying users having respective user devices within the defined boundaries of the location, and aggregating music preferences of the identified users. Each of the user devices have access to the music service and the aggregated music preferences of the identified users identify a plurality of music tracks. The disclosed method further includes generating a playlist having the plurality of music tracks based on the aggregated music preferences and providing an access to the generated playlist to the identified users at the location. The plurality of music tracks of the playlist is provided for listening by the music service to one or more of the user devices.

Method and system for generating location-based playlists

A method includes identifying user activity data of a plurality of users for a first online media item. The user activity data includes a drop-off rate and a consumption rate for the first online media item. The first online media item has a first thumbnail representing the first online media item. The method further includes determining, based on at least one of the drop-off rate or the consumption rate of the first online media item, that a new thumbnail is to be recommended to replace the first thumbnail for the first online media item, selecting the new thumbnail from a plurality of candidate thumbnails, and sending a recommendation of the new thumbnail for the first online media item to a client device of a user associated with the first online media item.

A method, computer program product, and system for video commentary is described. A method may comprise providing particular media content to two or more user computing devices. The method may further comprise receiving, from a first user computing device of the two or more user computing devices, a selection to view comments from a second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The method may also comprise receiving one or more comments from the second user computing device of the two or more user computing devices. The one or more comments from the second user computing device may be associated with video media content. The method may additionally comprise transmitting the one or more comments from the second user computing device to the first user computing device based upon, at least in part, the selection from the first user computing device to view the comments.

Video commentary

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query from a searching user, receiving contact data associated with a user that is determined to be responsive to the search query, the contact data being provided from one or more data sources, and providing an electronic document including instructions to display a search results page including search results responsive to the search query and a profile card associated with the user, the profile card including one or more graphical representations associated with an interaction channel, each interaction channel being associated with respective contact data of the contact data, and each graphical representation being operable to receive user input and initiate execution of an associated interaction from the search results page, an interaction interface used to execute the associated interaction being displayed concurrently with the search results page.

Encouraging inline person-to-person interaction

Methods and systems are provided for updating a set of results. In some implementations, a search query associated with an entity reference is received. The entity reference corresponds to one or more distinct entities. A set of results for the search query is provided, and the set of results distinguishes between distinct entities. One or more attributes for at least one entity of the one or more distinct entities are identified based at least in part on the set of results. One or more additional search queries are identified based on the search query, the at least one entity, and the one or more attributes. An input selecting at least one of the additional search queries is received. An updated set of results is provided based on the selected additional search queries. The updated set of results comprises at least one result not in the set of results.

Providing search results using augmented search queries

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query, identifying a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query, the plurality of search results including a plurality of items of digital content distributed using one or more social networking services, and determining that one or more terms provided in the search query is an active keyword and, in response: defining a first sub-set of items, the first sub-set of items including items of the plurality of items of digital content and being responsive to the active keyword, and providing items in the first sub-set of items for display as a discussion stream within search results.

Inline discussions in search results around real-time clusterings

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain.

Customized landing pages

A system obtains a document that is responsive to a user query. The system determines an interest of the user based on stored data associated with the user, and determines that a portion of the document relates to the interest of the user. The system generates a first snippet for the document based on the portion of the document that relates to the interest of the user, and provides the first snippet for the document as part of a result list.

Automatic generation of snippets based on context and user interest

A content processing device may be operable to analyze activity information associated with particular content identified in a content library associated with a user account. One or more entities associated with the particular content may be identified by the content processing device. The content processing device may collect, from various sources, information related to each of the identified one or more entities. The content processing device may determine, based on one or both of a result of the analysis and the collected information, update information for the particular content. The content processing device may then add, based on one or more ranking factors, item information comprising the particular content along with the determined update information to a list of items associated with the user account. Upon receiving an indication from a data processing device, the content processing device may communicate the list of items to the data processing device.

Customized content consumption interface

A video hosting service receives videos uploaded from users and associates the uploaded videos with a set of source content videos. The source content is used to identify the source of portions of video used in the uploaded videos. The source allows a user to view the source from which a portion of a video came from. By identifying the source, the video hosting service can provide additional videos that include different portions of the same source, different sources related to the source, and different videos that use or describe the same portion of the source.

Subscribing to video clips by source

A computer system collects user activity data for an online media item. The user activity data includes data for users that are consuming the online media item. The computer system identifies one or more criteria that are associated with the user activity data to use to identify one or more images in the online media item for a thumbnail for the online media item and selects one or more images in the online media item, based on the user activity data, that satisfy the one or more criteria. The computer system recommends the one or more images as the thumbnail for the online media item.

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Sean Liu