Google Inc.

Vincent Wu

Yung-Chieh Lo

Chinyue Chen

Cheng-Hsueh Andrew Hsieh

Tammo Spalink

Hung-Te Lin

A system and machine-implemented method for providing a username and password to a system using a device, via establishing a near field communication link with the system; retrieving a username and password from storage on the device; and transmitting the username and password to the system via the near field communication link, wherein the username and password are configured to be used by the system to authenticate the user on the system.

Authenticating a user of a system using near field communication

A system and method for filtering a stream of content based on the time available to a user is disclosed. A filter application includes a timing module, a determination module and a user interface engine. The timing module receives a request for a stream of content from a user. The determination module calculates a viewing time for each post in the stream of content and determines one or more posts from the stream of content based on the viewing time of each post and an available time for the user. The user interface engine provides the one or more posts to the user.

Filtering a stream of content

A system and method is disclosed for enforcing a third-party factory test during a quality verification of a newly-manufactured computing device. During an assembly line quality verification, a factory implemented test and a required third-party factory test are executed on a computing device, and then the execution verified by an external process. On verifying the required third-party factory test was executed, the computing device is configured to execute a release image on a subsequent startup of the computing device.

System and method for enforcing a third-party factory test

A system and method is disclosed for testing internet functionality of a computing device in a simulated Internet environment. In a testing environment, one or more local web servers are isolated from the Internet and configured to simulate one or more websites on the Internet. A request for a website located on the Internet is received from a computing device under test at a testing station. In response to receiving the request, information which simulates the website located on the Internet is provided to the computing device by the one or more local web servers, without access to the Internet.

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Belmont, CA, United States of America

Vincent Wu