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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Bharadwaj Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew Knouse, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles Zaffaroni, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A non-transitory machine-readable media embodying instructions executable by one or more processors to perform a method is provided. In one aspect, the method includes receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first account, a request for interaction with a second computing device associated with a second account, wherein the first account is assigned a quota for interacting with one or more accounts. The method includes determining a cost associated with the interaction. The method includes, when the quota exceeds the cost, determining that the interaction is allowed and deducting the cost from the quota. Systems and methods are also provided.