Google Inc.

Steven Chi Truong

Alexander Friedrich Kuscher

Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen

Tyler Odean

Philippe J Beaudoin

Manas Tungare

Eugene Louis Charles Girard

Marc-André Decoste

Robert Flack

Vadim Berman

Bernhard Bauer

Ilya Mikhailovich Sherman

Chris Bentzel

Jesse Doherty

Alexei Iourievich Svitkine

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure a computer-implemented method for automatically transitioning a user interface in a personal computing device between a laptop mode and a tablet mode is provided. The method includes detecting a hardware configuration change in the personal computing device. When the hardware configuration changes to a tablet mode, the method includes maximizing an active window in a display of the personal computing device and maximizing a second, inactive window, underneath the active window. And when the hardware configuration changes to a laptop mode, the method includes configuring the user interface to a windows icons menus and pointers (WIMP) mode. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a personal computing device having a base portion coupled to a display portion is provided. The personal computing device is configured to perform a computer-implemented method as described above.

Laptop-to-tablet mode adaptation

A computer-implemented method for enabling a user to switch applications within a plurality of active applications in a personal computing device having a touch-sensitive display is provided. The method includes detecting a tablet configuration in the personal computing device. In response to a tablet configuration being detected, maximizing a currently active application in the touch-sensitive display and providing a multi-task affordance in the touch-sensitive display when the touch screen personal computing device is displaying the currently active application. The multi-task affordance includes a plurality of tasks associated with a plurality of applications installed in the personal computing device. And the computer-implemented method includes providing a gestural interface to the user for application switching according to a selected task from the plurality of tasks in the multi task affordance. A personal computing device having a touch sensitive display to perform a method as described above is also provided.

Permanent multi-task affordance for tablets

Aspects of the subject technology relate to scaling an application window. A method includes determining a first window size for an application, and instructing the application to render at the first window size. The method also includes determining a second window size for the application, scaling the first window size to the second window size based on a scale value, and displaying the scaled application at the second window size. The scaling allows a full-screen view of the application to be displayed on a smaller window, or allows shrinking the application window to a size below a normal minimum window size. Inputs to the scaled window are also scaled so that the application continues to behave as if rendered at the first window size.

Picture-in-picture for operating systems

Activating a private browsing mode for a browser can include receiving an electronic document within the browser and detecting an indicator associated with the electronic document using a processor, wherein the indicator is correlated with the private browsing mode of the browser. Responsive to detecting the indicator, the electronic document can be rendered within a view of the browser in which private browsing mode is activated.

Invoking a private browsing mode by selection of a visual control element within a browser tab

A computer-implemented method for comparing multiple client application variations, including, providing a copy of a client application to each of a plurality of client devices, wherein each copy of the client application comprises multiple application variations, receiving demographic information from one or more of the plurality of client devices and providing a list of available experiments to each of the plurality of client devices based on the demographic information, wherein each of the available experiments corresponds with one or more application variations. In certain implementations, the method further includes steps for receiving usage information for each copy of the client application associated with each of the plurality of client devices and comparing two or more application variations of the client application based on the usage information. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.

Server side experimentation for client side software

Various aspects of the subject technology relate to disambiguating user intent on a touch-sensitive input device. A system is configured to detect an initial number of touch events on a touchscreen device where each touch event corresponds to a finger of a user. The system determines whether the initial touch events on the touchscreen device are resting fingers based on at least one rest heuristic and attributes the initial number of touch events to resting fingers on the touchscreen device based on the determination. The rest heuristic may include, for example, whether the number of initial touch events on the touchscreen device exceeds a threshold number of touch events or whether the initial touch events are detected for a threshold duration.

Disambiguation of user intent on a touchscreen keyboard

A computer-implemented method for search engine synchronization is disclosed according to an aspect of the subject technology. The method comprises receiving, at a computing device, a search engine entry for a search engine, wherein the search engine entry comprises a keyword for invoking the search engine, and a globally unique identifier (GUID) uniquely identifying the search engine. The method also comprises determining whether there is a local search engine entry stored locally on the computing device with the same GUID as the received search engine entry, and, if there is a local search engine entry with the same GUID as the received search engine entry, then performing steps. The steps comprise determining whether the received search engine entry is newer than the local search engine entry, and, if the received search engine entry is newer, then replacing the local search engine entry with the received search engine entry.

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Steven Chi Truong