US 12,001,387 B2
Automated archiving of user generated media files
Matthew Steiner, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/101,107.
Application 17/101,107 is a continuation of application No. 16/259,363, filed on Jan. 28, 2019, granted, now 10,915,495.
Application 16/259,363 is a continuation of application No. 14/466,942, filed on Aug. 22, 2014, granted, now 10,198,445, issued on Feb. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/019,358, filed on Jun. 30, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0073174 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/113 (2019.01) [G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media storing instructions that causes a computer system executing the instructions to perform operations comprising:
scanning a data storage device of a computer system for a plurality of files;
monitoring, during the scanning of the data storage device, performance of resources of the computer system;
adjusting, based on the performance of the resources of the computer system, an allocation of the resources to the scanning of the data storage device;
identifying one or more user generated media files from the plurality of files;
adding a directory including the one or more user generated media files to an upload directory list on the computer system, wherein the upload directory list is a list of directories;
for each directory in the upload directory list:
determining whether the one or more user generated media files in the directory are stored in a server;
uploading, after determining the one or more user generated media files are not stored in the server, the one or more user generated media files to the server; and
deleting at least one of the one or more user generated media files from the data storage device after the one or more user generated media files are uploaded to the server.