Google Inc.

Sigalit Bar

Simon Ratner

Jasson Schrock

Michael Fink

Julian Frumar

Ryan Junee

Ari J Leichtberg

Ron Merom

Ran Tavory

Tzvi Itzhak Barenholz

Isaac Elias

Herbert Ho

Aviad Barzilai

Nir Kerem

Yossi Matias

Igor Kofman

Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan

Leora Ruth Wiseman

Mihai Badoiu

Virginia Wang

Ankur Bhargava

Naty Leiser

Hilly Meerovitch

Joseph Robert Smarr

Ilan Horn

Avinatan Hassidim

Leora Wiseman

Guy Flysher

David Deutscher

Assaf Ben-David

Maayan Roth

Alon Mittelman

Oded Poncz

Ari Berger

Tal Uziely

Eran Timor

Eyal Molad

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs for identifying, using historical interactions associated with a first user, contact groups, where the first user is associated with each contact group, are provided. A score, with respect to a second user, is calculated for each contact group based on an amount of interaction between the second user and the respective contact group, thereby deriving a plurality of scores. A first contact group is determined. The first contact group has a first score in the plurality of scores that satisfies a predetermined threshold. A contact group suggestion is generated, responsive to the determining, that comprises an invitation to add the second user to the first contact group. The first user is notified of the contact group suggestion.

Systems and methods for providing contact group member suggestions

Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior of an existing video, e.g. by supplementing it with text, allowing linking to other videos or web pages, or pausing playback of the video. Authentication of a user desiring to perform annotation of a video may be performed in various manners, such as by checking a uniform resource locator (URL) against an existing list, checking a user identifier against an access list, and the like. As a result of authentication, a user is accorded the appropriate annotation abilities, such as full annotation, no annotation, or annotation restricted to a particular temporal or spatial portion of the video.

Web-based system for collaborative generation of interactive videos

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving an identifier associated with a user of a social networking service, identifying one or more first services provided by a first service provider, determining that the user is a user of the one or more first services based on the identifier, identifying first contacts of the user within each of the one or more first services, and generating a social vicinity index based on the first contacts, the social vicinity index including one or more potential contacts for the user within the social networking service.

Social vicinity service for social networks

Implementations of the present disclosure include generating one or more suggested social circles based on an analysis of past user interactions. The user can accept the suggested social circle and use it to distribute digital content. Generating a suggested social circle can include determining, for each of various sets of contacts, an initial score that represents a strength of the particular user's affinity to the set as a whole based on prior interactions of the particular user with the set, and determining, for each member of each set, an individual score that represents an average strength of the particular user's affinity to the member based on the interactions. An overall score for each set is calculated based on the initial score for the set and the individual scores of each member in the set. Based on the overall scores, at least one of the sets is identified for presentation as a suggested social circle to the particular user. Social circle data corresponding to the suggested social circle is transmitted to display a representation of the suggested social circle on a client device associated with the particular user.

Generating suggestions for user groups in social networks

Web-based system for generation of interactive games based on digital videos

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Sigalit Bar