Google on Sascha Brawer

Using Variable Font Width to Adjust Flow of Text Within Text Boxes

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Published on Technical Disclosure Commons to prevent patentability, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Text Rendering Tests

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unicode’s test suite for text rendering engines

Quick Transitions Between Indoor and Outdoor Maps

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From the indoor-mapping work on Google Maps.

Map Content Driven by Location and Schedule

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A location- and schedule-aware Google Maps feature. The German entry is a utility model (Gebrauchsmuster), which runs a shorter term than the patents.

Building Exteriors from Interior Floor Plans

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From the indoor-mapping work on Google Maps — deriving a building’s outside from its floor plans.

Estimating the Cost of Workplace Activities

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A patent application filed by Google in 2011 and published in 2015, but not pursued to grant. The publication put the method into the public record; because no patent ever issued, it is free for anyone to use.

Proper Name Transcription/Transliteration with ICU Transforms

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was a talk rather than a published paper — slides and a recording of the presentation, no separate written paper. Presented at IUC 34 in Santa Clara.

Conversion of Input Text Strings

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Patented technology for converting place names and similar geographic strings between writing systems — part of the same line of work as the ICU transforms talk.

Mobile Sitemaps

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A mobile-web extension of the Sitemaps protocol. Granted in the United States, Japan, China and South Korea; the Canadian and Brazilian filings were not pursued to grant.

Sitemaps for Web Crawling

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The patents behind the Sitemaps protocol, co-developed at Google in 2005 and published openly as an industry standard — two US continuation threads, one for the website side and one for the crawler side.