Fred E Gilbert

US Patent:

20110238762, Sep 29, 2011

Filed:

Feb 9, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/023877

Inventors:

Punit Soni - San Francisco CA, US
Steven J. Lee - San Francisco CA, US
Sanjay Mavinkurve - East Palo Alto CA, US
Fred Gilbert - Mountain View CA, US
Carlos E. Whitt - San Francisco CA, US
Ana Maria Ulin Vazquez - Palo Alto CA, US
Li-Wei Lee - New York NY, US
Marc Peter Tarca Wilson - London, GB
Mathieu P. Balez - San Francisco CA, US
Aleksandr V. Kennberg - Waterloo, CA

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709206

Abstract:

Some techniques feature a computer-implemented method for messages associated with a user location. The method involves determining, by a mobile computing device, an estimated geographic location of the mobile computing device. The method includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, one or more messages associated with an area within the estimated geographic location, where the one or more messages include messages posted by users of a system that associates messages that those users posted about the area within the estimated geographic location. The method involves providing, on a display of the mobile computing device, one or more posted message icons that are presented in a layer over a map, where the one or more posted message icons represent the one or more posted messages. In a system, the one or more posted messages may not appear on mobile devices after a predetermined amount of time from their respective postings.

US Patent:

20160246477, Aug 25, 2016

Filed:

Feb 22, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/050423

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Gregory Matthew MARRA - San Francisco CA, US
Jason B. PRADO - San Francisco CA, US
Fred Peter GILBERT - Mountain View CA, US
Punit Singh SONI - Mountain View CA, US
Aaron David KEMP - Kitchener, CA
Sharvil NANAVATI - Dundas, CA
Jonathan Gordon SHARKEY - Kitchener, CA
Anish ACHARYA - Toronto, CA
Jeson PATEL - Concord, CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/0481
G06F 3/0484
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A system and machine-implemented method for presenting profile information on an electronic device of a user, the profile information being associated with a contact of the user, via displaying a contact icon on a graphical user interface of the electronic device, the contact icon corresponding to a contact of the user; receiving user input which specifies selection of the contact icon; and displaying profile information, obtained from a profile associated with the contact corresponding to the selected contact icon, on the graphical user interface.