Google Inc.

Robert Wilson Reeder

Phillip Ames

Umesh Shankar

Patrick Stahlberg

Tzay-Yeu Wen

Joseph Bonneau

Peter Williams

An association system for associating digital assets may include a processing device, a first computer-readable storage medium portion in communication with the processing device that includes an association database of statements regarding a set of digital assets and associations between the digital assets in the set, and a second computer-readable storage medium portion in communication with the electronic device. The second computer-readable storage medium portion may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to receive electronic data including a statement defining an association between a delegating digital asset and a receiving digital asset, verify whether the statement is reliable, and, in response to verifying that the statement is reliable, add an entry to the association database, and store in the entry an indication that the delegating digital asset grants the receiving digital asset the one or more characteristics.

System for associating related digital assets

A method for protecting stored account data from unauthorized access includes receiving data elements corresponding to an account of a user, identifying a plurality of signals in the data elements, and determining a signal value for each of the signals. The signals correspond to various characteristics of the account. The method also includes assigning a plurality of weights (according to various criteria) to at least a subset of the signal values to yield a set of weighted signal values, and using the set of weighted signal values to assign an account value to the account. The method further includes using the account value to select a security-related action or a storage-related action that corresponds to the account value, and instructing data storage facilities from which the data elements were received to automatically implement the selected security related action or the selected storage-related action.

Method and system for determining value of an account

A system determines a value of an online account, and uses that value to identify a security-related mechanism for the account. The system determines the account value by taking as input various quantified characteristics of the account. The system weights each characteristic according to various criteria. The system may then use the weighted signals as inputs of an algorithm to calculate the account value for the account, and it may determine a security-related action that corresponds to the account value.

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Robert Wilson Reeder