Patents by Inventor Joshua Hudgins

Joshua Hudgins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10037332
    Abstract: A cloud storage system receives information associating a user's cloud storage account with a network service account associated with a service provider. The cloud storage system identifies files associated with the network service account, retrieves metadata associated with the files, and provides a list of the files and their associated metadata to the user. The metadata stored by the cloud storage system may indicate the context of the identified files within the network service account. In response to a user command, the cloud storage system may store one of the identified files in the cloud storage account, and may continue to provide the content of the stored file within the network service account even if the stored file is deleted from the network service account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Nowland Clark, Joshua Hudgins, Mandy Richau Sladden
  • Patent number: 9559996
    Abstract: A cloud storage system receives information associating a user's cloud storage account with a network service account associated with a service provider. The cloud storage system identifies files associated with the network service account, retrieves metadata associated with the files, and provides a list of the files and their associated metadata to the user. The metadata stored by the cloud storage system may indicate the context of the identified files within the network service account. In response to a user command, the cloud storage system may store one of the identified files in the cloud storage account, and may continue to provide the content of the stored file within the network service account even if the stored file is deleted from the network service account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Nowland Clark, Joshua Hudgins, Mandy Richau Sladden
  • Patent number: 9552368
    Abstract: A cloud storage system receives information associating a user's cloud storage account with a network service account associated with a service provider. The cloud storage system identifies files associated with the network service account, retrieves metadata associated with the files, and provides a list of the files and their associated metadata to the user. The metadata stored by the cloud storage system may indicate the context of the identified files within the network service account. In response to a user command, the cloud storage system may store one of the identified files in the cloud storage account, and may continue to provide the content of the stored file within the network service account even if the stored file is deleted from the network service account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Nowland Clark, Joshua Hudgins, Mandy Richau Sladden
  • Patent number: 9542457
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a search request including a search input; and identifying a history information item based on the search input. The history includes information describing a prior state of an object. The method also includes determining whether information describing a current state of the object corresponds to the search input. The method includes outputting a prior-state based search result item that identifies the object and includes information based on the history information item. If the information describing the current state of the object corresponds to the search input, the method includes outputting a current-state based search result item that includes a link for accessing the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Wong, Eric Benson Schoffler, George York, Joshua Hudgins, Nicholas Mark Vasic Cooper
  • Publication number: 20150200885
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a display of attachments for an e-mail message includes receiving an e-mail message with a plurality of attachments at a server, where one of the attachments is a file and a second of the attachments is a link to a file provided by a third party service. A request from the e-mail server is sent to a thumbnail generation service to generate a preview thumbnail for each attachment, where each preview thumbnail has a uniform appearance. The e-mail message and the preview thumbnails generated by the thumbnail generation service are sent to a client computer for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Phillip Sharp, Joshua Hudgins, Alon Shafrir, James Michael McCollum