Patent ID: 9710678
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: detecting, by a first device, that a certain number of attempts to power down the first device have been unsuccessful; in response to detecting that the certain number of attempts to power down the first device have been unsuccessful, automatically performing one or more recovery-assisting actions including creating, at a first time, a content item in a synchronized collection of content items, at the first device, that, at a second time that is later than the first time, is automatically synchronized with an online service; and wherein, at a third time that is later than the second time, a synchronized collection of content items at a second device is automatically synchronized with the online service thereby causing the content item to be stored at the second device and to provide a recovery-assisting indication to a user of the second device that the first device may be lost or stolen.