Google Inc.

Lyve Minds, Inc.

Morgan Francois Stephan Dollard

Christian Kaiser

Timothy Bucher

Ain McKendrick

Randeep Singh Gakhal

Jeff Ma

Stephen Sewerynek

Rick Pasetto

Peter D Stout

Greg Smelzer

Justin Lee

Embodiments of the invention include a method for determining the health of a storage network of electronic devices. In some embodiments, the method may include determining a data size of a catalog of data items stored in one or more electronic devices within a network of electronic devices; determining a storage capacity of the network of electronic devices; determining a storage health of the network of electronic devices based on the data size of the catalog of data items and the storage capacity of the one or more electronic devices; and outputting the storage health of the network of electronic devices.

Computation of storage network robustness

Devices and methods for receiving sections of media content and receiving ranked content and caching sections of content are disclosed herein. Media content can be received by a device and filtered as a function of relevance to user interest. In an aspect, the device can receive sections of the content ranked based at least in part on popularity and respective sections of the media content can be cached based on the ranking. In another aspect, the device can present subset of the cached media content sections to users belonging to social circle networks and social circles.

Media content receiving device and distribution of media content utilizing social networks and social circles

A method of distributing data through a storage network may include allocating data stored on a host storage block for storage on a target storage block. The host storage block and the target storage block may be included in a storage network that also includes one or more other storage blocks. The method may further include determining a plurality of characteristics of one or more of: the one or more other storage blocks and one or more devices associated with the one or more other storage blocks. Additionally, the method may include determining a distribution strategy for distributing the data from the host storage block to the target storage block based on the plurality of characteristics.

Storage network data distribution

User credentials are passed to a mobile computing device using scannable images. A scannable image is generated based on a previously created user profile. A user accesses a website from a computer and, in response, the scannable image is locally displayed on the computer. The mobile computing device may be authenticated by capturing the scannable image that is displayed on the computer. In the event that a user profile stored on the mobile computing device matches the previously created user profile that is encoded in the scannable image, the mobile computing device is authenticated. The user may then directly access data and/or interact with the website using the authenticated mobile computing device.

Mobile computing device authentication using scannable images

A computer-implemented method is provided for notifying a user having an association with a plurality of computing devices. A notification service is configured to receive notifications intended for the user and forward the notifications to one or more of the computing devices associated with the user. The notification service may determine a present location of the user and select a computing device to send the notification in accordance with the present location of the user. The notification service may also identify one of the computing devices that is currently being interacted with by the user from amongst the computing devices associated with the user and send the notification to the identified computing device.

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Belmont, CA, United States of America

Morgan Francois Stephan Dollard