Google Inc.

Jonathan Brunsman

Ficus Kirkpatrick

Christian Sonntag

Ilya Firman

David P Conway

Jasper S Lin

Christoph Emanuel Studer

Michael Morrissey

Linda K Nguyen

Michael Siliski

Andrew Devron Stadler

Juliana Tsang

Mark D Womack

Aurash Jonathan Mahbod

Paul Montoy-Wilson

Pierre Delisle

Peisun Wu

Gaurav Bhaya

Bindu Priya Reddy

Sarah Sirajuddin

Jennifer L Kozenski

Arvind Sundararajan

Ning Mosberger

David Kale

Puneet Agarwal

Gaurav Ravindra Bhaya

Christoph Studer

Linda Nguyen

Jeremy Logan Klein

A method and apparatus are disclosed for distributing content items to a handheld device using a personal computer. A user can browse and select content using a personal computer or other computer that may be more readily available or more convenient to use than the handheld device. The personal computer can communicate with a web server which receives the user's request for content to be distributed to the handheld device. The web server can retrieve configuration information pertaining to the handheld device and communicate with a content server to determine whether the user's request for content distribution is valid based on information identifying the handheld device and at least some of the configuration information pertaining to the handheld device. The content server can transmit the requested content item to the handheld device if the user's request is valid and if the handheld device is able to receive the content item.

Distributing content to a hand-held device after selection and authorization at a computer

A method for updating an application on a mobile device includes accessing, at the mobile device, application management information. The application management information identifies a plurality of applications installed on the mobile device and one or more granted permission settings associated with each installed application. The method also includes sending, from the mobile device to a server, a request for update information regarding each installed application and receiving, at the mobile device from the server, the update information. The update information identifies an update package for a respective application of the plurality of installed applications. The method also includes installing the update package without user interaction from a user of the mobile device if one or more required permission settings associated with the update package are included in the one or more granted permission settings associated with the respective application of the plurality of installed applications.

Automatic application updates

Distributing content

A user can refine a search over structured data by specifying that a label or an attribute value be used to further filter the results of a query.

Search over structured data

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Jonathan Brunsman