Google Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Timothy Seeds Milligan

Matthew John Leske

Tristan Schmelcher

Loren Groves

Anton Volkov

Sergey Nazarov

Ori Gershony

Dennis A Kiilerich

Ricardo Escutia

Gang Ji

Pranav Khaitan

Logananth Seetharaman

Sushant Prakash

Hila Shemer

David Citron

Chee Heng Chew

Jason White

Shaheen Ashok Gandhi

Jonas Erik Lindberg

Anthony Vincent Discolo

Stacey Law

James Weatherall

Todd G Roshak

Hin-Chung Lam

Chris Turkstra

Daniel Caiafa

Anthony Discolo

A system and method for identifying an entity from a message exchange thread and generating a suggestion that is directed to the entity, such as a suggestion for a user to take an action on the entity. A suggestion application receives at least one electronic message from a message exchange thread, identifies an entity that can be actionable from the electronic message, determines contextual indicators of the entity, determines whether the entity is actionable based on the contextual indicators, and responsive to the entity being actionable, provides a suggestion that is directed to the entity to a participant(s) of the message exchange thread.

Automatic suggestions for message exchange threads

A multimedia conference broadcast system may include one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may receive video streams and audio streams from participant devices. The one or more processors may transmit, to each of the participant devices, the video streams and the audio streams corresponding to the other devices. The one or more processors may receive a request to broadcast the video streams and the audio streams from one of the participant devices. The one or more processors may generate a composite multimedia stream based on the video streams and the audio streams received from the participant devices. The one or more processors may broadcast the composite multimedia stream to viewer devices that are separate from the participant devices.

Multimedia conference broadcast system

A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server from an inviter computing device associated with an inviter user, a request to have a communication session with a plurality of invitee users at a scheduled time. The technique can include determining a time zone of each invitee user, and determining that a specific time zone of a specific invitee user differs by more than a predetermined amount from the time zone of the inviter user. The technique can include providing a time-shifted invitation to a specific invitee computing device associated with the specific invitee user, the time-shifted invitation being for a delayed time that is appropriate for the specific invitee user. The technique can also include receiving an audio/video communication stream corresponding to the communication session beginning at the scheduled time, and providing the audio/video communication stream to the specific invitee computing device at the delayed time.

Techniques for automatically scheduling and providing time-shifted communication sessions

The subject technology discloses configurations for receiving input device data via an unreliable data channel from a first computing device in which the input device data includes keyboard data, mouse input data and/or touch and gesture data from the first computing device. The subject technology determines a host client computing device among one or more second computing devices in a multiway video conference for receiving the input device data. Further, the subject technology transmits the input device data via a second unreliable data channel to the determined host client computing device, where the input device data is transmitted on a separate data channel from any video or audio data transmitted to the host client computing device.

Sharing input device data in a multiway video conference provided in an online social network

An integrated gaming and media experience is disclosed, including recording of content on a gaming console. A digital video recorder (DVR) application running alongside a television client component allows users to record media content on the gaming console. The DVR application also integrates itself with the console menu. Once integrated, users can record media content while playing games. Alternatively, users can record content when the gaming console is turned off. The recorded content can include television programming, gaming experience (whether local or online), music, DVDs, and so on. When in the recording state, users can also switch between various other media modes, whether gaming, television, and so on.

Recording media on gaming consoles

A disk-seek optimized file system is provided that may be advantageously deployed in a computer system that supports simultaneous Digital Video Recorder (DVR) functionality and user interaction, such as recording several television (TV) shows while simultaneously supporting a video game played by a user. A computing device hard drive is logically divided into 'chunks,'&#x2014;a first chunk comprising volume metadata, and subsequent chunks comprising equal size 'blocks.' A first block of a subsequent chunk comprises block bitmaps and a stream identifier table. The block bitmaps indicate subsequent blocks in the chunk that contain stream data for particular streams, which are identified in corresponding entries in the stream identifier table.

Disk seek optimized file system

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Timothy Seeds Milligan