Google Inc.

Yiyang Joy Ding

Kelvin Chan

Kevin Michael Grennan

Sean Liu

Jennifer Maurer

Sarah Cooper

Rita Chen

Jeff Scott Harris

A method is disclosed for presenting media content on a first client computer of client computers that are participating in a collaboration session. The method includes receiving, at the first client computer, the media content from a server, presenting the media content at the first client computer, receiving, at the first client computer, a selection of an option that enables annotations on the media content received from the plurality of client computers for real-time display at each client computer participating in the collaboration session, sending the option to the server to allow annotations on the media content received from the plurality of client computers to be provided at each of the plurality of client computers, receiving, at the first client computer, a first annotation provided by a user of a second client computer and a second annotation provided by a user of a third client computer, and presenting the first and second annotations on the media content at the first client computer, the first and second annotations being presented with identifiers of the second and third client computers respectively.

Managing a sharing of media content among client computers

A method is disclosed for presenting media content on a first client computer of client computers that are participating in a collaboration session. The method including receiving the media content from a server, presenting the media content at the first client computer, receiving a selection of an option that defines how annotations on the media content received from the client computers are to be formatted for real-time display on the media content at the client computers participating in the collaboration session, sending the option to the server to cause any annotations on the media content received from the client computers to be formatted based on the option, receiving, at the first client computer, an annotation formatted by the server based on the option and information received from a second client computer of the client computers, and presenting the formatted annotation on the media content at the first client computer.

Managing a sharing of media content amount client computers

When a portable device cannot connect to a network, offline navigation directions are generated and displayed by obtaining navigation instructions stored on the portable device which direct a user from a first location to a second location. When a network connection later becomes available, the portable device obtains online navigation directions from the first location to the second location from a navigation server. The portable device updates the offline navigation directions in a least disruptive manner, with information from the online navigation directions by determining the difference between the online and the offline navigation directions. If the online and offline navigation directions are similar, the portable device updates the display with estimated time data, traffic data, etc., from the online navigation directions. Otherwise, if there is a significant difference between the online and offline navigation directions, the portable device displays the online navigation directions as an alternative route.

Integrating online navigation data with cached navigation data during active navigation

Map data is fetched into a memory of a computing device for generating a digital map of a geographic area. In response to a request for the digital map, the map data is retrieved from the memory to generate the digital map. A determination is made whether a user of the computing device is likely to request the digital map again within a certain period of time, and a time when the map data should be removed from the memory is then determined based at least in part on this determination. The map data is removed from the memory at the determined time.

Expiration of offline map data

Technology is provided to manage sharing of media content among client computers. In one example, an application server provides at least a portion of the media content to the client computers. The application server receives a requested session event. A session event is an annotation, a comment, or a navigation request. The application server generates a formatted session event by formatting the requested session event at least according at least one option. An option defines how the application server is to modify a session event for display at the client computers. The application server provides the formatted session event to the client computers for display on user interfaces at the client computers. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

An initial sequence of one or more symbols is received via a user interface. An attempt is made to send a request for online suggestions to a network server via a communication network, the request including at least one symbol in the initial sequence. When the initial sequence is less than n symbols long, and if no response to the request is received, the initial sequence is displayed without generating offline suggestions. When the initial sequence is at least n symbols long, and if no response to the request is received within a predetermined period of time, offline suggestions consistent with the initial sequence are generated using offline geospatial data stored in the computing device, and the offline suggestions are provided via the user interface.

Dynamically integrating offline and online suggestions in a geographic application

A method includes storing two or more documents at a storage system that is associated with a document editing system and receiving usage pattern information regarding each document from the two or more documents. The method also includes determining a likelihood that the two or more documents are related documents based at least in part on the usage pattern information and defining a collection including the two or more documents if the likelihood that the two or more documents are related exceeds a threshold value.

Methods for identifying related documents

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for time-based editing of an electronic presentation. An electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation is provided. The interface includes a digital canvas including multiple canvas objects in multiple canvas layers and a digital timeline including multiple timeline objects. Each canvas object is linked to a timeline object, and a location of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that each linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas.

Time-based presentation editing

A system and method for estimating travel time are provided. A general travel time is determined for a first route. A personal travel time for the first route is determined based on travel data of a user while traveling the first route. A scaling factor is determined based on at least one travel characteristic associated with the user or the route. A travel time for is estimated a second route based on the general travel time, the personal travel time and the scaling factor.

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