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Reel/Frame:	044566/0657			Pages:	58
		Recorded:	10/02/2017
Attorney Dkt #:	GOOGLELLC-002US
Conveyance:	CHANGE OF NAME (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS).

Total properties: 2000
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Patent #:	9246988	Issue Dt:	01/26/2016	Application #:	13919975	Filing Dt:	06/17/2013
Publication #:	US20140372555	Pub Dt:	12/18/2014
Title:	MANAGING DATA COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON PHONE CALLS BETWEEN MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES

Patent #:	9285964	Issue Dt:	03/15/2016	Application #:	13920176	Filing Dt:	06/18/2013
Publication #:	US20150169152	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	AUTOMATICALLY RECOVERING AND MAINTAINING FOCUS

Patent #:	9455870	Issue Dt:	09/27/2016	Application #:	13921578	Filing Dt:	06/19/2013
Title:	ACHIEVING BALANCED INTERCONNECTIVITY IN A COMPUTER NETWORK

Patent #:	9419887	Issue Dt:	08/16/2016	Application #:	13921585	Filing Dt:	06/19/2013
Title:	MINIMUM LATENCY ROUTING

Patent #:	9418114	Issue Dt:	08/16/2016	Application #:	13921698	Filing Dt:	06/19/2013
Title:	AUGMENTING A CONTENT ITEM USING SEARCH RESULTS CONTENT

Patent #:	9392044	Issue Dt:	07/12/2016	Application #:	13924886	Filing Dt:	06/24/2013
Publication #:	US20140379850	Pub Dt:	12/25/2014
Title:	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GEOSPATIAL ASSETS

Patent #:	9213712	Issue Dt:	12/15/2015	Application #:	13925101	Filing Dt:	06/24/2013
Title:	Advertising in Desktop Searches

Patent #:	9270964	Issue Dt:	02/23/2016	Application #:	13925434	Filing Dt:	06/24/2013
Title:	EXTRACTING AUDIO COMPONENTS OF A PORTION OF VIDEO TO FACILITATE EDITING AUDIO OF THE VIDEO

Patent #:	9280843	Issue Dt:	03/08/2016	Application #:	13925514	Filing Dt:	06/24/2013
Title:	Hybrid Images for Maps Combining Low Frequency Map Data and High Frequency Satellite Image Data

Patent #:	9342781	Issue Dt:	05/17/2016	Application #:	13925637	Filing Dt:	06/24/2013
Publication #:	US20140279777	Pub Dt:	09/18/2014
Title:	SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Patent #:	9384221	Issue Dt:	07/05/2016	Application #:	13926300	Filing Dt:	06/25/2013
Publication #:	US20160034498	Pub Dt:	02/04/2016
Title:	UNLIMITED RETROACTIVE DATA ELEMENT DIMENSION WIDENING

Patent #:	9251202	Issue Dt:	02/02/2016	Application #:	13926649	Filing Dt:	06/25/2013
Title:	CORPUS SPECIFIC QUERIES FOR CORPORA FROM SEARCH QUERY

Patent #:	9280970	Issue Dt:	03/08/2016	Application #:	13926669	Filing Dt:	06/25/2013
Title:	LATTICE SEMANTIC PARSING

Patent #:	9299339	Issue Dt:	03/29/2016	Application #:	13926795	Filing Dt:	06/25/2013
Title:	PARSING RULE AUGMENTATION BASED ON QUERY SEQUENCE AND ACTION CO-OCCURRENCE

Patent #:	9330195	Issue Dt:	05/03/2016	Application #:	13926836	Filing Dt:	06/25/2013
Title:	INDUCING COMMAND INPUTS FROM PROPERTY SEQUENCES

Patent #:	9304648	Issue Dt:	04/05/2016	Application #:	13927533	Filing Dt:	06/26/2013
Publication #:	US20150153906	Pub Dt:	06/04/2015
Title:	VIDEO SEGMENTS FOR A VIDEO RELATED TO A TASK

Patent #:	9235653	Issue Dt:	01/12/2016	Application #:	13927606	Filing Dt:	06/26/2013
Publication #:	US20150006501	Pub Dt:	01/01/2015
Title:	DISCOVERING ENTITY ACTIONS FOR AN ENTITY GRAPH

Patent #:	9351069	Issue Dt:	05/24/2016	Application #:	13927636	Filing Dt:	06/26/2013
Title:	Methods and Apparatuses for Audio Mixing

Patent #:	9454251	Issue Dt:	09/27/2016	Application #:	13928174	Filing Dt:	06/26/2013
Title:	METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING A REMOTE DEVICE USING A TOUCH SCREEN OF A MOBILE DEVICE IN A DISPLAY INHIBITED STATE

Patent #:	9429756	Issue Dt:	08/30/2016	Application #:	13928725	Filing Dt:	06/27/2013
Title:	TRANSPARENT MICRODISPLAY IN HEAD MOUNTABLE DISPLAYS

Patent #:	9298852	Issue Dt:	03/29/2016	Application #:	13928868	Filing Dt:	06/27/2013
Publication #:	US20150169578	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	RERANKING QUERY COMPLETIONS

Patent #:	9313493	Issue Dt:	04/12/2016	Application #:	13929120	Filing Dt:	06/27/2013
Title:	ADVANCED MOTION ESTIMATION

Patent #:	9342622	Issue Dt:	05/17/2016	Application #:	13929127	Filing Dt:	06/27/2013
Publication #:	US20150006587	Pub Dt:	01/01/2015
Title:	TWO-PHASE CONSTRUCTION OF DATA GRAPHS FROM DISPARATE INPUTS

Patent #:	9351113	Issue Dt:	05/24/2016	Application #:	13929997	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Title:	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADJUSTING LOCATION QUERYING FREQUENCY OF A COMPUTING DEVICE

Patent #:	9411857	Issue Dt:	08/09/2016	Application #:	13930133	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Title:	GROUPING RELATED ENTITIES

Patent #:	9436009	Issue Dt:	09/06/2016	Application #:	13930626	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Title:	MODULAR ACCESSORIES FOR HEAD-MOUNTABLE DEVICE

Patent #:	9274549	Issue Dt:	03/01/2016	Application #:	13930774	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Title:	LOST CORE ELECTRONIC ENCLOSURES

Patent #:	9442291	Issue Dt:	09/13/2016	Application #:	13930845	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Title:	SEGMENTED DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS FOR A HEAD WEARABLE DISPLAY

Patent #:	9240263	Issue Dt:	01/19/2016	Application #:	13930982	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Publication #:	US20150000953	Pub Dt:	01/01/2015
Title:	DEVICE CONNECTION CABLE WITH FLAT PROFILE

Patent #:	9230328	Issue Dt:	01/05/2016	Application #:	13931619	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Title:	PROVIDING IMAGE PARAMETERS

Patent #:	9348496	Issue Dt:	05/24/2016	Application #:	13931665	Filing Dt:	06/28/2013
Publication #:	US20150007101	Pub Dt:	01/01/2015
Title:	Selecting Content Based on Performance of a Content Slot

Patent #:	9256852	Issue Dt:	02/09/2016	Application #:	13933109	Filing Dt:	07/01/2013
Title:	AUTONOMOUS DELIVERY PLATFORM

Patent #:	9332044	Issue Dt:	05/03/2016	Application #:	13933859	Filing Dt:	07/02/2013
Publication #:	US20140026074	Pub Dt:	01/23/2014
Title:	System and Method for Automatically Suggesting or Inviting a Party to Join a Multimedia Communications Session

Patent #:	9239626	Issue Dt:	01/19/2016	Application #:	13933905	Filing Dt:	07/02/2013
Title:	Input System

Patent #:	9378517	Issue Dt:	06/28/2016	Application #:	13934805	Filing Dt:	07/03/2013
Publication #:	US20150012560	Pub Dt:	01/08/2015
Title:	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING POTENTIAL SEARCH QUERIES THAT MAY BE TARGETED BY ONE OR MORE KEYWORDS

Patent #:	9210258	Issue Dt:	12/08/2015	Application #:	13934993	Filing Dt:	07/03/2013
Publication #:	US20140079204	Pub Dt:	03/20/2014
Title:	Computing Device With Remote Contact Lists

Patent #:	9208764	Issue Dt:	12/08/2015	Application #:	13935591	Filing Dt:	07/05/2013
Publication #:	US20150007709	Pub Dt:	01/08/2015
Title:	Methods and Devices for Determining Media Files Based on Activity Levels

Patent #:	9332368	Issue Dt:	05/03/2016	Application #:	13936318	Filing Dt:	07/08/2013
Title:	Accelerometer or Transducer on a Device

Patent #:	9317201	Issue Dt:	04/19/2016	Application #:	13936913	Filing Dt:	07/08/2013
Publication #:	US20130314352	Pub Dt:	11/28/2013
Title:	PREDICTIVE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD

Patent #:	9325798	Issue Dt:	04/26/2016	Application #:	13937094	Filing Dt:	07/08/2013
Title:	INCENTIVIZING USER GENERATED CONTENT CREATION

Patent #:	9245138	Issue Dt:	01/26/2016	Application #:	13938135	Filing Dt:	07/09/2013
Publication #:	US20150205968	Pub Dt:	07/23/2015
Title:	SHARED PREFERENCES IN A MULTI-APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT

Patent #:	9380346	Issue Dt:	06/28/2016	Application #:	13939470	Filing Dt:	07/11/2013
Title:	Head End Generalization

Patent #:	9342844	Issue Dt:	05/17/2016	Application #:	13939686	Filing Dt:	07/11/2013
Publication #:	US20130304569	Pub Dt:	11/14/2013
Title:	Rebroadcasting of Advertisements in a Social Network

Patent #:	9267810	Issue Dt:	02/23/2016	Application #:	13940556	Filing Dt:	07/12/2013
Publication #:	US20150019127	Pub Dt:	01/15/2015
Title:	Systems and Methods for Displaying Navigational Information

Patent #:	9280258	Issue Dt:	03/08/2016	Application #:	13940857	Filing Dt:	07/12/2013
Title:	Displaying and Navigating Within Photo Placemarks in a Geographic Information System and Applications Thereof

Patent #:	9258679	Issue Dt:	02/09/2016	Application #:	13941726	Filing Dt:	07/15/2013
Title:	Modifying a History of Geographic Locations of a Computing Device

Patent #:	9286549	Issue Dt:	03/15/2016	Application #:	13941812	Filing Dt:	07/15/2013
Title:	Sublinear Time Classification via Feature Padding and Hashing

Patent #:	9305307	Issue Dt:	04/05/2016	Application #:	13941832	Filing Dt:	07/15/2013
Publication #:	US20150019335	Pub Dt:	01/15/2015
Title:	SELECTING CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A COLLECTION OF ENTITIES

Patent #:	9319451	Issue Dt:	04/19/2016	Application #:	13942301	Filing Dt:	07/15/2013
Publication #:	US20150019691	Pub Dt:	01/15/2015
Title:	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AN ACCOUNTING TECHNIQUE FOR INTERACTIONS WITH ELECTRONIC CONTENT

Patent #:	9282087	Issue Dt:	03/08/2016	Application #:	13942431	Filing Dt:	07/15/2013
Title:	SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REVIEWING USER GENERATED CONTENT AND PROVIDING AUTHORIZATION

Patent #:	9336210	Issue Dt:	05/10/2016	Application #:	13942638	Filing Dt:	07/15/2013
Publication #:	US20150019578	Pub Dt:	01/15/2015
Title:	DETERMINING A LIKELIHOOD AND DEGREE OF DERIVATION AMONG MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS

Patent #:	9298779	Issue Dt:	03/29/2016	Application #:	13943281	Filing Dt:	07/16/2013
Title:	COMBINING CONTENT WITH A SEARCH RESULT

Patent #:	9342839	Issue Dt:	05/17/2016	Application #:	13943370	Filing Dt:	07/16/2013
Publication #:	US20150026144	Pub Dt:	01/22/2015
Title:	COMBINING CONTENT WITH A SEARCH RESULT

Patent #:	9276855	Issue Dt:	03/01/2016	Application #:	13943608	Filing Dt:	07/16/2013
Title:	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NAVIGATION FILTERS

Patent #:	9369289	Issue Dt:	06/14/2016	Application #:	13944222	Filing Dt:	07/17/2013
Title:	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING SECURE AUTHENTICATED UPDATES OF AUTHENTICATION CREDENTIALS

Patent #:	9330545	Issue Dt:	05/03/2016	Application #:	13944268	Filing Dt:	07/17/2013
Publication #:	US20150022461	Pub Dt:	01/22/2015
Title:	DETERMINING INPUT RECEIVED VIA TACTILE INPUT DEVICE

Patent #:	9400789	Issue Dt:	07/26/2016	Application #:	13944705	Filing Dt:	07/17/2013
Publication #:	US20150169562	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	ASSOCIATING RESOURCES WITH ENTITIES

Patent #:	9336330	Issue Dt:	05/10/2016	Application #:	13944775	Filing Dt:	07/17/2013
Publication #:	US20150169579	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	ASSOCIATING ENTITIES BASED ON RESOURCE ASSOCIATIONS

Patent #:	9203829	Issue Dt:	12/01/2015	Application #:	13945743	Filing Dt:	07/18/2013
Title:	Unified User Login

Patent #:	9292049	Issue Dt:	03/22/2016	Application #:	13946783	Filing Dt:	07/19/2013
Title:	VARIABLE TORQUE HINGE WITH PASS-THROUGH CABLE

Patent #:	9286395	Issue Dt:	03/15/2016	Application #:	13950956	Filing Dt:	07/25/2013
Title:	MODIFYING QUERY IN DISCOURSE CONTEXT

Patent #:	9430519	Issue Dt:	08/30/2016	Application #:	13951770	Filing Dt:	07/26/2013
Title:	DYNAMICALLY GENERATING PRE-AGGREGATED DATASETS

Patent #:	9247251	Issue Dt:	01/26/2016	Application #:	13951930	Filing Dt:	07/26/2013
Title:	RIGHT-EDGE EXTENSION FOR QUAD-TREE INTRA-PREDICTION

Patent #:	9268806	Issue Dt:	02/23/2016	Application #:	13952517	Filing Dt:	07/26/2013
Title:	Efficient Reference Counting in Content Addressable Storage

Patent #:	9305241	Issue Dt:	04/05/2016	Application #:	13953030	Filing Dt:	07/29/2013
Publication #:	US20150029186	Pub Dt:	01/29/2015
Title:	Systems and Methods for Reducing a Data Set

Patent #:	9317528	Issue Dt:	04/19/2016	Application #:	13953293	Filing Dt:	07/29/2013
Title:	IDENTIFYING GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES FROM QUERY PREFIXES

Patent #:	9326030	Issue Dt:	04/26/2016	Application #:	13953920	Filing Dt:	07/30/2013
Publication #:	US20150039685	Pub Dt:	02/05/2015
Title:	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRIGGERING USER NOTIFICATIONS OF MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS

Patent #:	9384523	Issue Dt:	07/05/2016	Application #:	13954886	Filing Dt:	07/30/2013
Title:	METHOD FOR REDUCING INPUT LATENCY ON GPU ACCELERATED DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS

Patent #:	9367529	Issue Dt:	06/14/2016	Application #:	13955261	Filing Dt:	07/31/2013
Title:	SELECTING CONTENT BASED ON ENTITIES

Patent #:	9436946	Issue Dt:	09/06/2016	Application #:	13955280	Filing Dt:	07/31/2013
Publication #:	US20150039589	Pub Dt:	02/05/2015
Title:	SELECTING CONTENT BASED ON ENTITIES PRESENT IN SEARCH RESULTS

Patent #:	9275022	Issue Dt:	03/01/2016	Application #:	13955307	Filing Dt:	07/31/2013
Publication #:	US20150039992	Pub Dt:	02/05/2015
Title:	MECHANISM FOR SETTING ASCENT AND BASELINE FOR HTML ELEMENTS

Patent #:	9311299	Issue Dt:	04/12/2016	Application #:	13955491	Filing Dt:	07/31/2013
Title:	Weakly Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Coupled Token and Type Constraints

Patent #:	9298605	Issue Dt:	03/29/2016	Application #:	13956173	Filing Dt:	07/31/2013
Title:	MEMORY ALLOCATOR ROBUST TO MEMORY LEAK

Patent #:	9432480	Issue Dt:	08/30/2016	Application #:	13956527	Filing Dt:	08/01/2013
Publication #:	US20150046526	Pub Dt:	02/12/2015
Title:	MAGNETIC INDUCTION NETWORK DEVICE

Patent #:	9343043	Issue Dt:	05/17/2016	Application #:	13957298	Filing Dt:	08/01/2013
Publication #:	US20150035857	Pub Dt:	02/05/2015
Title:	METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING COMPOSITE IMAGES

Patent #:	9426190	Issue Dt:	08/23/2016	Application #:	13957315	Filing Dt:	08/01/2013
Title:	CROWDSOURCING DESCRIPTOR SELECTION

Patent #:	9286397	Issue Dt:	03/15/2016	Application #:	13957648	Filing Dt:	08/02/2013
Title:	GENERATING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT

Patent #:	9373148	Issue Dt:	06/21/2016	Application #:	13958328	Filing Dt:	08/02/2013
Publication #:	US20150172328	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	CONNECT SOCIAL NETWORKING USERS WHO SIMULTANEOUSLY CHECK-IN AT A GEOLOCATION

Patent #:	9418177	Issue Dt:	08/16/2016	Application #:	13958740	Filing Dt:	08/05/2013
Title:	DISAMBIGUATION OF A SPOKEN QUERY TERM

Patent #:	9406308	Issue Dt:	08/02/2016	Application #:	13959100	Filing Dt:	08/05/2013
Title:	ECHO CANCELLATION VIA FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODULATION

Patent #:	9460342	Issue Dt:	10/04/2016	Application #:	13959594	Filing Dt:	08/05/2013
Title:	DETERMINING BODY MEASUREMENTS

Patent #:	9212915	Issue Dt:	12/15/2015	Application #:	13959680	Filing Dt:	08/05/2013
Publication #:	US20130325307	Pub Dt:	12/05/2013
Title:	PROVIDING RESULTS TO PARAMETERLESS SEARCH QUERIES

Patent #:	9384303	Issue Dt:	07/05/2016	Application #:	13961200	Filing Dt:	08/07/2013
Publication #:	US20140365515	Pub Dt:	12/11/2014
Title:	EVALUATION OF SUBSTITUTION CONTEXTS

Patent #:	9348897	Issue Dt:	05/24/2016	Application #:	13961609	Filing Dt:	08/07/2013
Publication #:	US20150046440	Pub Dt:	02/12/2015
Title:	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SCHEDULING SUGGESTIONS

Patent #:	9268670	Issue Dt:	02/23/2016	Application #:	13962662	Filing Dt:	08/08/2013
Title:	System for Module Selection in Software Application Testing Including Generating a Test Executable Based on an Availability of Root Access

Patent #:	9256688	Issue Dt:	02/09/2016	Application #:	13963242	Filing Dt:	08/09/2013
Publication #:	US20150046467	Pub Dt:	02/12/2015
Title:	RANKING CONTENT ITEMS USING PREDICTED PERFORMANCE

Patent #:	9332031	Issue Dt:	05/03/2016	Application #:	13963428	Filing Dt:	08/09/2013
Title:	CATEGORIZING ACCOUNTS BASED ON ASSOCIATED IMAGES

Patent #:	9454503	Issue Dt:	09/27/2016	Application #:	13963624	Filing Dt:	08/09/2013
Title:	HOT SWAP DECOUPLING FOR NOISE REDUCTION AND FAILURE PREVENTION

Patent #:	9391861	Issue Dt:	07/12/2016	Application #:	13963986	Filing Dt:	08/09/2013
Title:	SERVER SIDE EXPERIMENTATION FOR CLIENT SIDE SOFTWARE

Patent #:	9361288	Issue Dt:	06/07/2016	Application #:	13963999	Filing Dt:	08/09/2013
Publication #:	US20150169534	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	PROCESSING TEMPLATES USING SEPARATE TEMPLATE PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS

Patent #:	9313349	Issue Dt:	04/12/2016	Application #:	13965099	Filing Dt:	08/12/2013
Publication #:	US20150172489	Pub Dt:	06/18/2015
Title:	OPTICAL SCANNERS, SUCH AS HAND-HELD OPTICAL SCANNERS

Patent #:	9268824	Issue Dt:	02/23/2016	Application #:	13965570	Filing Dt:	08/13/2013
Title:	Search Entity Transition Matrix And Applications Of The Transition Matrix

Patent #:	9236056	Issue Dt:	01/12/2016	Application #:	13966200	Filing Dt:	08/13/2013
Title:	VARIABLE LENGTH LOCAL SENSITIVITY HASH INDEX

Patent #:	9234763	Issue Dt:	01/12/2016	Application #:	13966424	Filing Dt:	08/14/2013
Title:	Systems and Methods for Identifying and Selecting Personalized Waypoints for Presentation on a Map

Patent #:	9384213	Issue Dt:	07/05/2016	Application #:	13966470	Filing Dt:	08/14/2013
Publication #:	US20150049091	Pub Dt:	02/19/2015
Title:	SEARCHING AND ANNOTATING WITHIN IMAGES

Patent #:	9373155	Issue Dt:	06/21/2016	Application #:	13967793	Filing Dt:	08/15/2013
Publication #:	US20150161764	Pub Dt:	06/11/2015
Title:	SEARCH RESULTS WITH STRUCTURED IMAGE SIZES

Patent #:	9311289	Issue Dt:	04/12/2016	Application #:	13968879	Filing Dt:	08/16/2013
Title:	SPREADSHEET DOCUMENT TAB CONDITIONAL FORMATTING

Patent #:	9356901	Issue Dt:	05/31/2016	Application #:	13968980	Filing Dt:	08/16/2013
Title:	DETERMINING MESSAGE PROMINENCE

Patent #:	9298358	Issue Dt:	03/29/2016	Application #:	13969139	Filing Dt:	08/16/2013
Title:	SCROLLABLE NOTIFICATIONS

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Patent #:	9237141	Issue Dt:	01/12/2016	Application #:	13969172	Filing Dt:	08/16/2013
Publication #:	US20140089671	Pub Dt:	03/27/2014
Title:	MULTI-TIERED AUTHENTICATION METHODS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS AMONGST SMART HOME DEVICES AND CLOUD-BASED SERVERS

Assignor

GOOGLE INC.

Exec Dt:

09/29/2017

Assignee

GOOGLE LLC

1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA 94043

Correspondence name and address
	CONVERGENCE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW P.C
	2251 GRANT RD. SUITE G
	LOS ALTOS, CA 94024

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