Google Inc.

Subramaniam Ganapathy

Ficus Kirkpatrick

Zoltan Gyongyi

Shashidhar Anil Thakur

Viswanath Subramanian

Ashutosh Shukla

Vachaspati Hemmige Varadarajan

Paul Bunn

Patrick Baumann

Jesse Evans

Sean Liu

Sara Lee Su

Saksiri Tanphaichitr

Jin Zhou

Abigail Jones

In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a supervisor component executing at a computing device, a request to execute an application, determining a current user of the computing device, and determining a reset state of the application. The method may also include generating, based on the current user of the computing device, the reset state, and an application identifier for the application, a unique identifier that does not include personally identifiable information for the current user, sending, to an application service provider, the unique identifier and one or more requests for information, and, responsive to sending the one or more request for information, receiving, from the application service provider, state information associated with the current user and for the application.

Identifiers across application instances

In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a supervisor component executing at a computing device, a request to execute an application; responsive to determining that an application container for maintaining installable sub-packages of the application is allocated in memory of the computing device, determining, by a container runtime of the application container, one or more dependencies of the application; retrieving, by the container runtime, the one or more dependencies; and responsive to retrieving the one or more dependencies, executing, by the application container, the application.

Managing delivery of code and dependent data using application containers

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

A computer device obtains a search query; obtains product search results based on the search query and a products search index that includes information regarding documents associated with products; determines a category associated with a set of result of the product search results; identifies candidate queries for the search query; determines whether the category matches one of the candidate queries; identifies that the search query is associated with a type of media identified by the category when the category matches one of the candidate queries; and provides, in response to identifying that the search query is associated with the type of media, a result document based on the type of media.

Identifying media queries

In one aspect, a system includes: an indexing engine for indexing a plurality of sources of content, receiving a search query and returning search results; a ranking engine for ranking search results to produce ranked results, the ranking engine coupled to receive search results from the indexing engine; a modification engine for generating modified results using information from additional sources and the ranked results, the modification engine coupled to receive the ranked results from the ranking engine, the modification engine coupled to receive the information from the additional sources; and a presentation engine for sending modified results and an annotation, the presentation engine coupled to receive modified results and the annotation from the modification engine, the presentation engine coupled to provide the modified results and the annotation to a client device. The present disclosure also includes a method for retrieving social videos.

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