Google Inc.

Michael Ortega-Binderberger

Yuewei Wang

Shashank Chaudhary

Onur Soysal

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing online user privacy. Methods can include receiving tag information specifying a given publisher identifier for a publisher and a given client identifier assigned to a user of the client device by the publisher. A given service identifier assigned to the user by the service apparatus is obtained. A mapping between the given service identifier to the given client identifier is created. A list of client identifiers assigned to a set of users by the publisher is received. A list of matched service identifiers corresponding to the list of client identifiers are stored. Multiple content requests are received from multiple different client devices accessing services provided by the service apparatus. Responses to the content requests are based on whether the client devices provide service identifiers that are included in the list of matched service identifiers.

Enhanced online privacy

The present disclosure provides methods and systems for determining the duration of time that has passed since temporarily idle or abandoned resources or property were last in use or possessed. The methods and systems provide for determining the point in time at which resources or property become idle or abandoned and for registering the cessation of use or abandonment event. Thereafter, the methods and systems provide for receiving and responding to queries concerning the temporarily idle or abandoned property and for detecting and registering resumption of use or reclamation events.

Determining duration of idleness or abandonment of resources and property

A data processing device may be operable to determine that a particular application being downloaded onto the data processing device is coupled to one or more other applications. The data processing device may cause display of a set of required usage permissions, where the set of required usage permissions may comprise one or more required usage permissions associated with the particular application itself and one or more required permissions for using the corresponding one or more other applications. The data processing device may cause display of a separate set of required usage permissions associated with each of the one or more other applications, either before the particular application is downloaded or at the same time as the particular application is downloaded.

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Michael Ortega-Binderberger