Google Inc.

Michael Yang Liu

Scott P Mullins

George Alban Heitz

John Jordan Nold

Shayan Sayadi

Siddarth Raghunathan

Jeffrey Ching Wang

Mohamed Mohy-Eldeen Abdelgany

Srirama Koneru

Arvind Sundararajan

Michael Yu

Anurag Kumar Singh

Spiro Michaylov

Shashwat Rastogi

Srinivas Vaidyanathan

Subhashish Roy

Neduvelil Vinod Menon

A display assistant device comprises a display, a camera, a speaker, microphones, a processor and memory. The memory stores programs comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, enable a plurality of modes of the display assistant device. The modes include a monitoring mode and an assistant mode. In the monitoring mode, the device is configured to perform a remote monitoring function in which first video captured by the camera is streamed to a remote server system for monitoring uses. The monitoring uses include transmission of the first video to remote client devices authorized to access the first video. In the assistant mode, the device is configured to perform a second plurality of functions that excludes the monitoring function and includes a video communication function in which second video captured by the camera is transmitted to second devices participating in a video communication with a first user of the device.

Display assistant device having a monitoring mode and an assistant mode

Maintaining an organizational hierarchy by receiving data indicative of computing resource consumption by one or more leaf nodes, wherein the leaf nodes are part of a hierarchy including the leaf nodes and higher level nodes; and generating one or more modifications for the hierarchy based on the data indicative of computing resource consumption.

Extensible method for organizational mapping via cloud resource consumption

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Michael Yang Liu