Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100131351 | Selecting Between Client-Side and Server-Side Market Detection - In accordance with one or more aspects of selecting between client-side and server-side market detection, a determination is made at a device as to which of a client-side detected market and a server-side detected market is to have priority for a service. An application of the device is configured in accordance with a client-side market configuration setting if the client-side detected market has priority, and is configured in accordance with a server-side market configuration setting if the server-side detected market has priority. | 05-27-2010 |
20110072354 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYNCHRONIZATION - Social network service synchronization techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made by a client that a browser has been used to navigate to a website. A prompt is displayed by the client, responsive to the determination, that is selectable to cause data that describes activities that are performable in conjunction with the website to be communicated to a social network service to be stored in conjunction with a user account of the user at the social network service. | 03-24-2011 |
20110113349 | SOCIAL BROWSING - A method described herein includes acts of extracting at least one entity from an arbitrary web page being viewed by an individual on a computing device and comparing the at least one entity with social network data of the individual, wherein the social network data comprises a plurality of messages generated by members of a social network of the individual. The method further includes the acts of identifying at least one message in the plurality of messages based at least in part upon the comparing of the at least one entity with the social network data of the individual and causing the at least one message to be displayed on the web page in conjunction with the at least one entity. | 05-12-2011 |
20110145698 | GENERATING STRUCTURED DATA OBJECTS FROM UNSTRUCTURED WEB PAGES - A method described herein includes receiving data that identifies a web page, wherein the data that identifies the web page is desirably displayed to a first individual and resolving the web page to generate a markup language document, wherein the markup language document comprises unstructured data. The method also includes extracting portions of the markup language document and generating a structured data object, wherein the structured data object includes the portions of the markup language document. The method further includes causing a summary of the web page to be displayed to the first individual, wherein the summary of the web page is based at least in part upon the structured data object. | 06-16-2011 |
20120150971 | PRESENTING NOTIFICATIONS OF CONTENT ITEMS SHARED BY SOCIAL NETWORK CONTACTS - Within a social network, a user may establish a set of contacts who share with the user various content items and comments related thereto. However, these content items are often hosted by a content source outside of the social network, and the user may have to transition to the content source to view the content item, and then transition back to the social network to submit a comment. Instead, a device may monitor the social network to record shared content items. When the user requests a presentation of the content source, notifications of the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user, including an identifier of the contact sharing the content item with the user (e.g., a depiction or avatar representation of the contact and a link to a social profile of the contact) may be included in the presentation. | 06-14-2012 |
20120151383 | PRESENTING CONTENT ITEMS SHARED WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Within a social network, a user may establish a set of contacts who share with the user various content items and comments related thereto. However, these content items are often hosted by a content source outside of the social network, and the user may have to transition to the content source to view the content item, and then transition back to the social network to submit a comment. Instead, a device may monitor the social network to record shared content items. When the user requests a presentation of the content source, the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user may be included in the presentation. The presentation of the content source may also accept comments from the user regarding a content item, and send the comments to the social network where the content item was shared with the user. | 06-14-2012 |
20130258117 | USER-GUIDED OBJECT IDENTIFICATION - A user attempting to obtain information about an object can capture image information including a view of that object, and the image information can be used with a matching or identification process to provide information about that type of object to the user. In order to narrow the search space to a specific category, and thus improve the accuracy of the results and the speed at which results can be obtained, the user can be guided to capture image information with an appropriate orientation. An outline or other graphical guide can be displayed over image information captured by a computing device, in order to guide the user in capturing the object from an appropriate direction and with an appropriate scale for the type of matching and/or information used for the matching. Such an approach enables three-dimensional objects to be analyzed using conventional two-dimensional identification algorithms, among other such processes. | 10-03-2013 |